[Palindrome] Who'd like to run our Mystery Hunt team for this hunt?

[Eric Albert <Eric Albert alumni brown edu>]

I've decided to take a vacation from running our team in the upcoming 
Mystery Hunt, and I'm hoping that some other person(s) would like to take 
over.

"Running the team" over the next eight weeks mostly means doing 
coordination work: dusting off and updating the mailing list; reserving 
rooms for headquarters; finding out who's staying on the team, who's 
leaving, and who wants to join; coming up with a team name; coordinating 
nametags; coordinating who's bringing computers, and how they'll be set 
up; coordinating other machines and supplies; coordinating food; welcoming 
and socializing old- and newcomers; occasionally pinging the Hunt Masters 
to see what's up; plus any other stuff I've forgotten.

Thankfully, much of the actual work can be passed off to other team 
members, who have done these tasks in the past; for the leader, it's 
"just" a couple of hundred e-mail messages.

"Running the team" during the Mystery Hunt means doing even more 
coordination work: keeping track of all the puzzles; all the work being 
done on the puzzles; all the puzzle corrections; the moods of the 
individual team members and the team as a whole; where people are 
physically; the fatigue levels of individuals and one's self; holding on 
to the idea that there's probably a meta-puzzle; interacting with the Hunt 
Masters; keeping track of the supplies and food (or, better, finding 
someone else to do this); plus a fair amount of other stuff, too.

Running the team during the Mystery Hunt usually means that you will *not* 
get to solve a large number of puzzles, and that the ones you do work on 
will be the ones that everyone else is stuck on.  (Which are usually not 
the entertaining ones, but the complicated, buggy ones.)

Notes:

1) The above two aspects of running the team do not have to be done by the 
same person(s).
2) The coordination work over the next two months could easily be split, 
and does not require being on site, or even in this country.
3) The person(s) running the team during the Hunt should be on site.
3) I may be willing to help run the team during the Hunt (so long as the 
Hunt Masters show no signs of personally attacking me -- sorry, still 
sensitive from last year!), but I'm also content to just solve.

Team memberships are very up in the air right now, but, if we can settle 
soon on a team leader, I think we could have a fun and strong team this 
year. 

So, who wants to do what?

-- Eric