[Kristina]

Here's what we did kind of going off of M's idea but modified to suit our smaller team. Tried and tested and it works pretty well.

It's the same egalitarian feel with the point people but there are subcommittees. At the beginning of the year everyone would write down which group(s) they felt they were strongest in and had the most desire to work in. Leaders were appointed for the larger groups and emerged naturally in others. Thus, we had a leader for each group that represented the group. At the beginning of each class day each leader would go around telling everyone else what they were working on and what they needed from other groups. All of this was written on a huge blackboard that was divided up into groups and due dates were written by each task. Basically, the leaders (which was a group of 5-6 people I believe) came up with the tasks and people would decide how much involvement they wanted to give and what they could do. Leaders in each group weren't there to designate but rather to make sure that people signed up for what they were comfortable with doing, making sure people worked, and kept a mental record of what everyone was doing. As each task was completed, it was simply checked off.

This helped immensely when we couldn't afford pay for everyone's travel. Thus, the section leaders knew who did what for their group and how much work they put in. I think it worked well because there was enough flexibility so that if someone wanted to work in more than one group they could according to their abilities but there was always a leader to make sure that all the work needed for the group was done and he/she could also communicate with the rest of the team with what needed the group needed.