DebConf10/Jobs

This page documents specific NYC-related tasks which we'd love for people to volunteer for. This is targeted towards local people, and new volunteers especially. For a list of more global-related jobs, see Jobs.

If you are interested in helping out, add your name here and/or let us know in #debconf-nyc on irc.debian.org, or email to debconf10-localteam@lists.debconf.org . If you add your name here, you can either add it under the very bottom, or if there's something specific you'd like to do, you can add your name under that task. I would encourage you to add your name to the very bottom of the sheet, and get in touch with one of the organizers on #debconf-nyc so that we can help coordinate you where you can help most, and want to be. Not all of these jobs are the same priority. Don't worry, we'll make sure you are doing what you want!

For examples of past conferences, including detailed description of the setup and facilities needed, see [DC7 report (best to read first)] [DC8 report].

Reminder: See the global Jobs page for much more to do, including a lot that is easier than

Columbia University

• Network contact: Work with CUIT/SEAS to ensure that we have excellent wireless coverage, activated network ports where they are needed. Wired access for the video team. Might also investigate network in public spaces in our housing arrangements (Columbia residence halls).

• Housing contact: Work with Columbia Conference housing to establish which residence halls we will stay in, work on price, work on getting enough beds, work on turning residence halls into worklabs.

• CS Contact: Someone to work with the CS department and can help us communicate with them in terms of reserving SEAS rooms and other pseudo-sponsorship issues. (Knowing the CS departmental staff (especially the chair) would be very helpful here.)

• SEAS Contact: Someone to work with SEAS in terms of reserving the SEAS-owned rooms (Davis, Carleton cafeteria, interschool lab, etc). Knowing SEAS departmental staff or procedures would be helpful here, but not required.

• Registrar/room scheduling contact: Works with the Columbia registrar's office to schedule common classrooms for us to use as overflow space

• Event planning: Anyone who can work with columbia/SEAS event planners to help us follow all rules.

• Hardware loans: We need loaned hardware from university groups/departments. (Ex: network cable, switches, servers, DV cameras, power cords, and more).

• Server/video workstation hosting: We usually bring in various servers for the video team, mirrors, and other things. Will we have a place to place them? Could we use already-existing computers? Needs large net connection to campus (we don't stream from here, but we could), 24-hour access, and so on.

• Law School contact: Helpful for reserving rooms in the law school, if we can and need to do this.

• SIPA contact: We might use some SIPA facilities... maybe?

• Physics department contact: maybe...

• Facilities contact: in case we need to do things like get blueprints, verify power load capacity, etc.

• Shipping/receiving: Will need an address to ship things here in the days/week before the conference.

• Office facilities: Access to printers, copies, etc.

• Building access: People with 24-hour access to buildings we'll be using (CEPSR, Mudd, maybe more...).

• On-site volunteers: People to help direct attendees and answer questions about the area.

• Knowing people: The more people in the administration we know, the easier our tasks will be.

• Budget/Accounting:

New York City

• See Jobs for more, and all of the details. This doesn't need special Columbia access.
• Food: Someone to arrange food for massive numbers of people. Preferably catered from outside (cheaper than Columbia). People could divide up tasks to have different food for different meals, or different days. Perhaps decide eating-out trips.

• Day trip: Plan out something fun for hundreds of attendees to do together.

• Attendee help: make maps of things, directions to get to Columbia, general hints for attendees in NYC. Keep our website up to date and accurate about things.

• Proceedings: Local printing of the conference proceedings

• Local sponsors: Email/call sponsors and secure donations of money, equipment, or services. We need a huge sponsorship team...

• Press contacts.

Extra

• Huge US-based sponsorship team. We'll provide you with a sponsorpack to send, and details about the conference and why they want to sponsor.

Don't forget to see Jobs, too, for more global things.

Add your name here

Franklin Bynum <frank at hcoop dot net> - I am an attorney living in New York City. I am a member of a hosting cooperative (http://hcoop.net/) that hosts many of its services from here in New York using debian. I would be happy to help attendees with visa applications and other immigration issues, or to help in any other way.

Luis Mondesi <lemsx1@gmail.com> - I live in the Bronx and work for Fotolog which is a website with a large user-base. We use debian and debian-derivative servers for a lot of things. Would be nice to work for DebConf10! (or volunteer)

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric at zhevny dot com> - DebConf 7.8,9,10 videoteam member, formerly (almost exclusively) Debian sysadmin at RFA. I'm located in Arlington, VA (just outside DC). I'll do whatever I can to coordinate with localteam wrt videoteam needs.

Michael Schultheiss <schultmc@debian.org> - I'm a Debian Developer based in Indianapolis but I'm willing to help out with things I can do remotely. I'm currently SPI Treasurer and have helped out with DC8 and am helping out with DC9.

JamesVasile <james at hackervisions.org> - Staffer at the Software Freedom Law Center, happy to help with issues of either a legal or miscellaneous nature.

Devendra Laulkar <drl2115 at columbia dot. edu> - Graduate student in the CS department at Columbia. Working as part time admin in the EE department. Will be probably graduating in December, but happy to help out till I am in New York.

Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds dot org> - adjunct prof at ITP/NYU and media arts consultant. Can help organize things.

Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér <morten@writtenandread.net> -- Danish bureaucracy hacker recently relocated to NYC. Happy to help organizing, carrying, cabling, encouraging, speaking to partners and team in my "everything is under control" voice.--Mjjzf 18:45, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Kristoffer Rose <debian@krisrose.net> - Live in south Westchester (½h from Manhattan), Research Scientist with IBM. Was involved heavily with debian in The Beginning, and have run my work and home with it ever since. Look forward to help, for example with program planning and collecting/editing contributions.

Phil Beder <phil@kermitplace.us> I'm a NYC school teacher and use Debian for my school and home servers. I have some press contacts (WBAI Pacifica) and intimate knowledge of how people with a disability can get around the city.

Dara Adib <daradib - applemon.com> Incoming freshman at UC Berkeley, and a Debian user with an interest in law-technology (e.g. copyright, patents, and ethics). I live about 20 miles from Manhattan. Willing to do anything you'd trust a student with.