Legalities around calling our event a 'Decompression'

Are these agreements with an organisation making events or per event? I guess what I'm asking is if we can just stick this under the Borderland umbrella this year until KB becomes a part of the network. There should be enough members of Borderland already involved for that to be an OK thing to do.

Really? I don't think the Dutch decompression was part of that network plus, a decompression party seems rather universal, not limited to events connected to burning man

This seems like a very easily solved problem that doesn’t require being absorbed by the burning man institution: “Kiezburndecompression”, “Decom”, “Dekompression”, etc. I’m more wondering how many people who may have fled BRC to find a better place to have a Burn elsewhere that don’t want to be associated with Burning Man™ and their potential treats feel about a suddenly decision to be approved by Burning Man Inc. Shouldn’t more discussion be made on the pro’s & con’s of being an independent burn before buttons are being pressed?

Guys, I do not have the time to be investigating this right now. Does anyone wish to take over?

@jamesfish @crazydaisy and are leading the charge on getting the event to become an official Burning Man decompression. The document that covers the requirements is here. I think its a case of writing a couple of emails! Our German Regional Contact @holgerwessels may be able to offer some advice or assistance.

I would advocate for standing together as a community on questions like this. Which for me would mean living under the umbrella of Kiez Burn e.V. It would be sad if things started to go in different directions and we'd have a Kiez Burn independent regional summer burn here and a Burning Man TM (far-away capitalists! Trademarking the event is Commodification!) Decompression in Autumn.......... Our community is not that big and together we are stronger <3

So, admittedly, we ( @crazydaisy & I) have been pretty slow on the ball on this. (Lots of personal things for both of us.) That being said, after going over the criteria document, there are few things that will make this take more time than we have at this point to get the official decompression tag:

1 is that we'd have to obtain insurance for the event - are we already doing that anyway? - and name BRC LLC and Burning Man as additional insured parties. If we're already obtaining insurance, that part is easy. If we aren't, then we'd have to.

2 - we'd need to sign a 'regional use agreement' document with Burning Man, for the life of me i cannot find this document anywhere on the internet. I emailed around to see if I can get it, but I'm expecting turnaround time on getting a response, not to mention turnaround time on getting it signed off by all parties.

So, looks unrealistic this time, but good to know and to have for next time... and maybe after we get more community feedback as @alina calls for.

But once we can use the word DECOMPRESSION on the internet, all of our dreams will come true!!!

We voted for official burning man event so we can try to call ourselves a Decompression... although with 5 weeks left and the BMorg just finishing up at BM that may not be possible. We will stick with Burn Night until anything changes.

The decision to make KB an official event should be voted for by the community and be separate to this event.

Yes, indeed. youre right, we should discuss more on the pro’s & con’s of being an independent burn.
in regards to the name, Dekompression is still too close to the trademark name. We can be a official BM event without KB being officialised