Event Side Event Coordination You decide what happens when somebody who is not you runs an event inside your event's dates or venue orbit: whether you approve it, whether you list it, what they may call it, when it may run, and what you say you are not responsible for. The default answer is often nothing at all. Most community events never formalise this and are right not to. Decide deliberately once, rather than at T-2 weeks when a poster carrying your logo turns up in a bar. What you own, and what is already decided You own the relationship with an event you do not run. Four questions, and…