Akademy/2014/Volunteers

Sign up to Volunteer!

To sign up, please follow these steps:

• Before filling your name in, please read the Call for Volunteers.
• Check out the tasks below to see what interests you.
• Edit the table below and fill in your name and data. Please provide your name, the languages you speak, whether you are a local and/or know Brno, and when you are available.
• Add your local mobile telephone number to your Akademy user profile.
• Join the IRC channel #akademy on freenode

Available tasks

Before the event

• print and place signs on the walls
  • directions to rooms
  • directions to food, coffee, team room, etc.
  • name of the BOF rooms
  • how to reach party venue

• print and fold name badges and put them into pouches
• set up the venue:
  • hang banners, posters, and signage
  • distribute cables in rooms

During the event

• Pre-registration (Friday afternoon/early evening)
  • check in attendees and hand out badges
  • print out new badges if necessary

• Registration/Info desk (Saturday to Thursday)
  • check in attendees and hand out badges
  • print new badges if necessary
  • sell KDE merchandise
  • provide general information

• Session chairs
  • check that the speaker has water
  • introduce the speaker
  • make sure that the talk starts and ends on time
  • moderate questions

• Runner (local volunteers)
  • able to drive a car
  • run errands
  • find people when needed

• Video operator
  • help record the talks

• Group photo
  • assemble group
  • take picture of all attendees

After the event (Friday afternoon)

• help clean the venue
• return sponsor materials
• return other materials as necessary

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Sign up to volunteer

(Please add your name and information)

Name/IRC nick/email	Languages	local knowledge (y/n)?	days/times available	comments	t-shirt size/style
Georgia Young, geographic, georgia.young at kde dot org	English	n	6-13 September	set up venue, registration/info desk
Patrick Spendrin, SaroEngels, ps_ml at gmx dot de	English, German	n	6-9 September	set up venue, registration/info desk, etc.
Jozef Mlich, jmlich, jmlich at redhat dot com	Czech, English, German	1/2	8-13 September	something
Lydia Pintscher	English, German and some Spanish	n	all days	session chairing
Michal Bača, baca.michal at seznam dot cz	Czech, English	y	6 - 13 Sept	set up venue, runner etc	XXL, man
Martin Klapetek, mklapetek at kde dot org	Czech, English	a bit	7th (afternoon~ish) - 13 Sept	session chair, runner, whatever else might be needed	L, man
Luigi Toscano, tosky, luigi.toscano at tiscali it	Italian, English and few Czech words	y	6 - 13 Sept	session chair, video recording (if needed), registration/info desk	M, man
Carl Symons, kallecarl, carlsymons at gmail	English	n	6 - 13 Sept (PDT; CEST -9 hours)	event reporting	XXXL
Jan Grulich, jgrulich, grulja at gmail	Czech, English	y	6 - 13 Sept	Runner (I have a car), Registration/Info desk	L, man
Valorie Zimmerman, valorie at kde dot org	English	n	6 - 13 Sept	Registration/Info desk, runner	xxl, fitted, xl standard
Martin Bříza, m at rtinbriza dot cz	English, Czech	y	6 - 13 Sept	whatever is needed, most likely info desk or runner	M, man
Kenny Coyle, kenny at heloo dot net	English	n	4/5 - 10 Sept	whatever is needed, video, registration desk	M, man
José Millán Soto, fid_jose, jmillan at kde-espana dot org	English, Spanish, Galician and some French	n	6 - 11 Sept.	whatever is needed, registration/info desk	L, man
Yash Shah, yashshah, yash at kde dot org	English	n	5 - 11 Sept.	whatever is needed, registration/info desk	L, man
Akshay Ratan, akshayratan, akshayratan at gmail dot com	English	n	5 - 11 Sept.	whatever is needed, registration/info desk	L, man
Frederik Gladhorn, fregl, gladhorn at k.o	English, German	n	6- 7 Sept.	session chairing	S/M, man
Adriaan de Groot, [ade], groot at k.o	English, some French, some German	n	5-9 Sept.	session chairing, speaker motivation, whatever else is needed	XL, man
Martin Kyral, mkyral, mkyral at redhat dot com	Czech, English	y	5 - 12 Sept	setup venue, whatever is needed	M, man
Daniel Vrátil, dvratil, dvratil at k.o	English, Czech	y	all year	setup venue, session chair, whatever is needed
Scarlett Clark, sgclark, sgclark at kubuntu dot org	English	n	5 or 6 - 13 Sept	setup venue, Registration/Info desk, runner	L standard
Ivan Čukić, ivanhome, ivan.cukic at k.o	English	n	5- 13 Sept.	session chairing, yelling at attendees :)	S/M, man