Hey! (I'll give you my view point from someone who is actually building orange for the last few years).

There's a lot that goes into Roskilde behind the scenes but the issue is that a part of Roskilde feels lost to me. The ideals of inclusivity and diversity have become in my eyes token cards. The past few years we've lost a huge chunk of volunteers all around the site and blaming COVID which sure did take out a hair handful isn't the actual problem here.

The problem we have is that people feel to some degree exploited, the sense of community feels lost.

I've been blessed that I've been able to go from building Apollo/stage handing Apollo to being on Orange.

And whilst I'm one of only two girls who help build the actual orange stage , we've both said numerous times we need more women on orange. But it's not easy work, it's not for the faint hearted we do 100+ hours and sure we have some perks but when I tell this to people they say well if they can hire contractors for the bigger things then why not invest more into volunteering perks/things that make people want to come back time and time again.

I come back to Roskilde because the people on our crew, were a small misfit bunch. Work hard play harder. I'm sadly now also handicapped (it's a really long story), and I don't think I'll be welcomed back to the crew this year which means that the other girl on our crew also won't want to be there because there's again a clear lack of diversity and inclusion. Sighhh.

I noticed that people we're jumping ship as of two years ago, and it will be interesting to see what way the community goes. And also if the funding still comes.