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VenueWiki news — what’s new in the manual and the calendar sync.
Ship notes, new connectors, new venues, and the occasional war story from the crew. Pull up a stool.
Ship notes, new connectors, new venues, and the occasional war story from the crew. Pull up a stool.
Turn it on from your profile — your polaroid appears at your venues.
You can now add yourself: flip on self-polaroid from your profile, pass the photo check, and your card shows up at the venues you work — supplier badge and all. First one went live at the MCA the same day it shipped. Faces on walls, the proper way.
Keep specific shifts off your calendar — by tag or colour.
Some shifts you don't want on your personal calendar. Now you can exclude them — by tag, or by colour — and they stay off. Recolour or retag an event and the sync respects it retroactively. Your calendar, your rules.
Faces on the wall — know who you're working with before you load in.
Venue pages now have a staff wall: polaroid cards of the crew who work there, added by venue managers. Walk into a venue already knowing who's who — names, faces, roles. It's the green-room corkboard, except it's there before you are.
Third roster system connected — your company links once, your shifts flow.
If your company rosters through Humanity, they can now connect it to VenueWiki once and every matched crew member's shifts flow to their own calendar automatically. That's three roster systems live — Rentman, Deputy, Humanity — with Humanforce next on the bench.
One glance at your week tells you who each gig's for.
Working for more than one company? You can now give each connected company its own colour — AV1 in one, Scene Change in another — so a glance at your week tells you who the gig's for. Works on Google Calendar and Outlook. And yes, one of the yellows is called "JJ Yellow" in the picker. The crew know why.
Two crew flag the same fix, the page updates — and unverified specs say so.
Every spec on a venue page now carries its provenance. Anything unconfirmed wears an UNVERIFIED badge, and when two crew independently submit the same correction, the page updates to the crew-sourced value — no committee, no gatekeeper. What you read is what the room actually is, because the people in the room said so.
Google Calendar or Outlook — your shifts land in whichever you actually use.
Not everyone lives in Google Calendar. Calendar Sync now writes to Outlook too — same automatic sync, same updates and cancellations, pick whichever calendar you actually look at.
The deal we ran for the crew who built the first pages.
The early pages had to come from somewhere. The deal was simple: invite-only beta, and anyone with 10 approved contributions before July 31 locked in membership free for life. The founding crew who took it built the backbone of the manual — and they never pay. That offer's closed now, but it's why the good venues already have good pages.
Your shifts, on your calendar, without you touching anything.
If your company rosters you through Rentman or Deputy, your shifts now land straight in your Google Calendar — new gigs appear, changed times update, cancelled gigs vanish. Rentman runs two-way: block out a day in your personal calendar and your Rentman availability updates itself. No screenshots, no double-entry, no "hang on, i'll check the app."
What this is, who it's for, and why it exists.
VenueWiki is a shared field manual for event venues — loading docks, patch, power, house rig, room by room — written by the techs who actually work them. It's in closed beta now, with venues across Sydney already documented. If you know a venue like the back of your hand, this is where that knowledge stops walking out the door every time someone changes jobs.
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