Someone wants to work unpaid in his spare time? Anybody? … Okay, we know this is not the best advertising slogan and there aren’t many people which immediately say “Yeah, absolutely!” However that is the point: we need a few volunteers at the Anime Flea Market, who actively support us.
Current restructuring
Open for more information
The official organizer of the Anime Flea Market is the Nishi Trade e. V. (registered association) and it has so far been organized by people who have come together loosely within the association. However, we have currently decided to revise our internal organizational structures and we are now in a transitional phase.
The plan is to establish a separate department for the Anime Flea Market within the association, which will then vest it with its own departmental regulations (we call them OTAF regulations). However, in order to be able to implement this the way we want, we have to change the statutes of Nishi Trade e. V.. This involves membership meetings, visits to the authorities and paperwork. We are currently preparing this internally and will officially tackle it in 2025.
We have already finalized the departmental regulations and are acting on the basis of them as far as possible. For things for which is not yet possible, we are currently reorganizing things in a way that we can start next year.
Bei Sachen, bei denen es noch nicht möglich ist, organisieren wir die Sachen momentan um, sodass wir dann ab nächstem Jahr voll durchstarten können.
In the following, we have written down for you how we want to organize ourselves internally from 2025 and what we are currently working towards.
General information
We are democratically organized. We have no main organizers, division heads or bosses. The basis for our cooperation are the OTAF regulations (available only in German).
If you want to join us, you have to decide whether you want to be a helper or an OTAF member. The two roles work together in different compositions in different working groups, but have different rights of co-determination and responsibilities. It is also possible to be in several working groups at the same time.
The working groups are:
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- Information & registration
- Bring&Buy
- Gaming area
- Rainbow Cake (maid & butler café)
- Program
- Security & admission
- Supply
- Location & rooms
- Website
- PR & marketing
- Graphics
- Legal matters & finances
Helpers
Open
- Prequisites:
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- minimum age 16 years at the time of registration
- be able speak fluent German & at least rudimentary English
- contactability by e-mail and/or internal forum
- Your tasks:
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- Participation in at least one preparatory meeting. It depends on the respective working group you want to be active in whether these take place online or offline.
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- Please familiarize yourself with the stuff relevant to you in advance to the Anime Flea Market. For example, if you are active in the gaming area, you need to know the rules of the games. If you are active with Bring&Buy, you must read the relevant GTC in advance and know a few laws.
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- You have to be contactable for us. It’s okay if it takes you a few days to reply to a message. However, it’s not all right if we have to be after you every time we need an information from you. Exception: in the two weeks before an Anime Flea Market, please check back daily to see if a message has arrived.
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- Be on time at the event location on the day of the Anime Flea Market.
- Codetermination:
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- You may:
- contribute your own ideas
- have a say in your working times
- You may:
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- You may not:
- violate the OTAF regulations
- participate in votes, even not the ones of your working groups
- eigenständig Entscheidungen treffen & einer Entscheidung eines OTAF-Mitgliedes widersprechen
- participate in OTAF meetings
- get elected to committees of the OTAF
- You may not:
OTAF members – OTAF = in German “Organisations-Team des Anime-Flohmarktes” (“Organizing team of the Anime Flea Market”)
Open
- Prerequisite:
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- minimum age 18 years
- be able to speak fluent German & at least rudimentary English
- contactability by e-mail and(!) internal forum
- be member of the Nishi Trade e. V. (registered association)
- Your tasks: All those who also have the helpers and additionally …
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- participation in OTAF meetings
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- Organizational management of the working groups in which you are active. I.e. …
- communication & coordination with the other working groups
- ensure that deadlines are kept
- ensure that required items are transported to the Anime Flea Market
- etc.
- Organizational management of the working groups in which you are active. I.e. …
- Codetermination:
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- You may:
- contribute your own ideas
- have a say in your working times
- participate in votes
- participate in OTAF meetings
- get elected to committees of the OTAF
- You may:
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- You may not:
- violate the OTAF regulations
- You may not:
graphic only available in German
Previous experince necessary?
It’s always good if someone has previous experience, but it’s not necessary for us, regardless of the working group. Yes, for some tasks you need certain knowledge and/or experience. That’s why we organize preparatory meetings and information events so that you can learn this. Apart from that: just take part. You only gain experience by trying things and we provide you with the resources and opportunities to do so within the scope of our possibilities.
Rewards
- sell items at Bring&Buy and auction for free
- eat and drink for free and without a limit in the Rainbow Cake
- free Bento as lunch
- a pink headband for helpers as a distinctive mark
- a little gift
- on request we issue (the Nishi Trade e. V. = German registered association) certificates of the volunteering
Further information
Organizational structure & everything about the OTAF
temporary OTAF regulations as PDF
(5. version – 1 March 2024, available only in German)
Information for dealing with data protection
(available only in German)
Registration
Please consider, for reasons of planing, we don’t accept new people in the team shortly before an event and we may not be able to respond to your requests.
Registration
available only in German