Akademy/2015/Volunteers
To sign up as a volunteer, head down to #Sign up to Volunteer!
Handy information for volunteers
- /Timetable
- Akademy general landline: +34 881 01 1369
- Team room extension (for internal calls): 1369
- Telegram group: https://telegram.me/joinchat/00098b7d017a08fba71e9f02e4925c3b
Please consider the Telegram group a high-priority channel and avoid using it for non prioritaire work. There are other channels (IRC, email, wiki) for those. In spirit of that priority, we encourage our volunteers to keep that group with sound/vibration on, so that hi-prio things get priority ;)
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 Coruña, and when you are available.
- Add your local mobile telephone number to your Akademy user profile.
- Join the IRC channel #akademy on freenode
- Join the https://telegram.me/joinchat/00098b7d017a08fba71e9f02e4925c3b
- Check the /Timetable, and put your name on the slots you would like to help
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
- print any other documents that might be necessary (bus schedules, etc.)
- check the merchandise available for sale
- test the network
- set up the venue:
- prepare the team room
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| José Millán Soto, fid_jose, jmillan (at) kde-espana.org and fid (at) gpul.org | English, Galician, Spanish and a few French | y | 21 - 31 July | whatever is needed | M/L |
| Santiago Saavedra, ssaavedra/ssice, ssaavedra (at) gpul.org | English, Galician, Spanish and a Portuguese | y | 21 - 31 July | Coordination plus whatever else is needed | M/L |
| Peter Bouda, pbouda, pbouda (at) cidles.eu | English, German, and some Portuguese | n | 25 - 31 July | whatever is needed | L |
| Pablo Castro, castrinho8, pcastro (at) gpul.org | English, Galician and Spanish | y | 21 - 31 July | whatever is needed | XL |
| Adrião Morão, morois, morois (at) openmailbox.org | English, Portuguese and Spanish | y | 21 - 23 July, 26 - 30 July | whatever is needed | L |
| Pablo Belay, pbelay(at) gmail.com | Galician and Spanish | y | 27 - 28 July | whatever is needed | XXL |
| Ingo Klöcker, mahoutsukai, kloecker (at) kde.org | German, English, some Spanish, some French | n | 23 - 31 July | whatever is needed | S |
| Marcos López, feirlane, feirlane (at) gmail.com | Galician, Spanish, English | y | 21 - 31 July | whatever is needed, weekdays only available on afternoons | L |
| Timothée Giet, Animtim, animtim (at) gmail.com | French, English, some Spanish | n | 24 - 30 July | Registration/Info desk, | XL |
| Frederik Gladhorn, fregl, [email protected] | German, English, Norwegian, some Spanish | n | 25 - 26 July | Session chair | S |
| Daniel Vrátil, dvratil, [email protected] | English, Czech | n | 23 - 30 July | whatever is needed | L |
| Sébastien Renard, renard (at) kde (dot) org | French, English, very basic Spanish | n | 24 - 28 July | Registration/Info desk, Pre-registration | M/L |
| Emilio J. Padrón González, emilioj, emilioj (at) gpul.org | Galician, Spanish and English | y | 21 - 31 July (probably not available on Saturday 25th for family matters) | Whatever is needed | M/L |
| Pedro Costal Millán, pedrety998 (at) gmail.com | Galician, Spanish and English | y | 21 - 31 July | Whatever is needed | M/L |
| Ali Moreira Afonso, alimafon (at) gmail.com | Galician, Spanish and English | y | 21 - 31 July | Whatever is needed | XL |
| Brais Arias Rio, braisarias (at) gmail.com | Galician, Portuguese, Spanish, English and little bit German | y | 22 - 31 July unless 24 afternoon to 26 | Whatever is needed | M |
| Marcos Chavarría Teijeiro, chavarria1991 (at) gmail.com | Galician, Portuguese, Spanish and English | y | 21 - 31 July unless 24 afternoon | Whatever is needed | M |
| Luigi Toscano, tosky, luigi.toscano (at) tiscali.it | Italian and English | n | 24 - 30 July | Session chair, video operator | M |
| Stefan Derkits, HorusHorrendus, stefan (at) derkits.at | English, German | n | 24 - 31 July | PreRegistration, Registration/InfoDesk | XXL |
| Yash Shah, yash (at) kde.org | English | n | 24 - 29 July | Session Chair, Registration/InfoDesk | S |
| Alex Merry, alex.merry (at) kde.org | English | n | 24 - 29 July (I arrive 23rd, leave 30th); won't be available during the e.V. AGM | manning desks, session chair, photography | M |
| Vishesh Handa, [email protected] | English, Spanish (not bad, but not great) | n | 23 - 27 | Session Chair | S |
| Scarlett Clark, sgclark (at) kde.org | English | n | 24 - 29 July | Whatever is needed ( I do have BoFs and meetings, please coordinate) | L |
| Raoul Bogdan / pablomangustin / bogdan.raoul (at) gmail.com | English, Romanian | n | 24 - 31 July | Whatever is needed | L |
| Ignacio Serantes / iserantes / iserantes (at) kde-espana.org | English, Spanish, Galician | y | 23 & 24: Afternoon only, 25&26: All day | Whatever is needed | XL |
| Adrián Pereira / adPeGu / adries.91 (at) gmail.com | English, Spanish, Galician | y | 25 - 31 July | Whatever is needed | L |
| Jonathan Riddell jr @jriddell.org | English, Spanish, Catalan, Scots | y | 25 - 31 July | Press | L |
| Nim Kibbler | English, Spanish, Catalan, Yorkshire | y | 25 - 31 July | Photos | Ladies L |
| Jigar Raisinghani / jigarraisinghani (at) gmail.com | English | n | 25 - 30 July | Whatever is needed ( except Session Chair as its my 1st time Akademy ) | L |
| Valorie Zimmerman / [email protected] | English | n | 21 - 31 July | Whatever outside Kubuntu Day and Book/Doc bofs | XL |
| Monica Perez Sueiro / [email protected] | Galician, Spanish, English | y | 29 July I don't know if any other | Whatever | M |
| Sergio Vazquez Pardo / [email protected] | Galician, Spanish, Very basic English | y | I don't know exactly when | Whatever | |
| Sofia Prosper Diaz-Mor / [email protected] | Galician, Spanish, English, basic French | y | 24-28 July | Whatever is needed | XL |
| Emile de Weerd / mederel / [email protected] | French, English, German, Dutch | n | 23 July-1 Aug | Newcomer to Akademy so basic tasks only (carry things around, cleaning up, things like that) | M |