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
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 |