There are really good basic suggestions, John. You're right, a lot of "Tech Areas" at churches are ridiculously cluttered and hard to use.
Regarding publishing technical designs, I believe I covered in my last session on designing for resilency how helpful it is to have things like diagrams of signal path created and posted in the control space for quick reference. I use LucidChart to create these, which has some free options, but they can be done with other apps or even by hand and scanned. I agree completely about putting them on shared drives.
I haven't spoken much about security, but it's a real concern. I had a very valuable camera and lens stolen from my church immediately following a service during coffee hour. It was "theft of opportunity"--someone saw that no one was around in that second and simply put it in their backpack and walked out. One option to prevent this: putting stuff away in locked storage area. This can facilitated with a "media cart" on wheels that has all the gear that it is portable and set-up at the time of each service. Another option is to "tether" pieces of equipment using kits that you can find like this one: LINK. This won't necessarily stop a determined thief, but it could slow them down and make the theft noisy and time consuming.
Regarding publishing technical designs, I believe I covered in my last session on designing for resilency how helpful it is to have things like diagrams of signal path created and posted in the control space for quick reference. I use LucidChart to create these, which has some free options, but they can be done with other apps or even by hand and scanned. I agree completely about putting them on shared drives.
I haven't spoken much about security, but it's a real concern. I had a very valuable camera and lens stolen from my church immediately following a service during coffee hour. It was "theft of opportunity"--someone saw that no one was around in that second and simply put it in their backpack and walked out. One option to prevent this: putting stuff away in locked storage area. This can facilitated with a "media cart" on wheels that has all the gear that it is portable and set-up at the time of each service. Another option is to "tether" pieces of equipment using kits that you can find like this one: LINK. This won't necessarily stop a determined thief, but it could slow them down and make the theft noisy and time consuming.Cross-training! Yes! I've emphasized the need for a team approach a number of times! Thanks for the reminder of how important that is!