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VOLUNTEER EVENT PLANNER
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PUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN THE RIGHT HOURS

Repair café · Saturday

Turn your team’s skills and availability into a draft rota. See the gaps, check the workload and take a clear plan to your team.

Fictional repair café loaded. Create a draft plan or edit the people, roles and blocks.
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positions locked · not yet planned

6

people in the team

3

blocks of 60 minutes

One person can cover only one role in each block. No plan has been calculated for this revision.

The rota

01

Set up

09:0010:00

Welcome0 / 1 filled

Welcome desk

Not assigned
Repair0 / 1 filled

Repair bench

Not assigned
02

Open doors

10:0011:00

Welcome0 / 1 filled

Welcome desk

Not assigned
Repair0 / 2 filled

Repair bench

Not assigned
Not assigned
Textiles0 / 1 filled

Textile table

Not assigned
03

Final hour

11:0012:00

Repair0 / 1 filled

Repair bench

Not assigned
Textiles0 / 1 filled

Textile table

Not assigned

Skill labels

Welcome
Repair
Textiles

Remove a skill from people and roles before deleting its label. This prevents accidentally widening eligibility.

THE PLANNING ORDER

Cover the positions. Then balance assignment counts. Then favor preferred availability. Locks, skills, availability and hard limits always come first.

Before putting a rota into practice

Fictional people and declared skills. Confirm availability and suitable supervision with the team before using a plan.

This is a single-day worksheet with equal, nonoverlapping blocks. It does not account for breaks, fatigue, travel, overnight work, time zones, supervision ratios or legal requirements. Check those needs separately with the team.

No account or API key is needed. Rosters and calculations stay in this page’s memory; refreshing or closing loses them. Download a backup before leaving. Share exported names and availability only with permission.

Method: MIT’s min-cost flow notes and integer network-flow foundations. The count-balance objective is a design choice, not a universal fairness rule.