DebConf13/VolunteerCoordination

This page is for Volunteer coordination at DebConf 13. Please add your name if you registered as a volunteer or organizer.

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Permanent Jobs

For these jobs we need volunteers during the whole DebConf week. Feel free to add your name to several teams, but be aware that some of these jobs need some training and introduction, so we would like you to commit to be on the team for the whole week (except dishwashing).

Bar

Volunteers needed: ~15

Responsibles: Benedikt Trefzer, Michele Cane

Tasks (see also):

• Sell food and beverages at the bar in the evening
• Sell beverages during lunch and dinner
• Refill the stock during the day
• Wash reusable glasses

Volunteers:

1. Michael Germini
2. Sarah
3. Aude
4. cate (part-time)
5. Ursus
6. Raphaël Walther
7. urbec (part-time)
8. Lunar
9. Jonathan Dupart (part-time)
10. Sandro Knauß
11. Arne Wichmann
12. Elimar Riesebieter
13. Eike
14. Juerg Haefliger (part-time)
15. Penta 2706 (part-time)
16. jack
17. (add your name here)

Front-Desk

Volunteers needed: ~5

Responsibles: Nattie Mayer-Hutchings, Patty Langasek

Tasks:

• Check-In and Check-Out of attendees
• General attendee information
• Selling of lunch and dinner tickets
• Handling complaints

Volunteers:

1. Eva
2. Santiago
3. sorina
4. zlatan
5. Wolodja (babilen)

Talkmeister

Volunteers needed: ~8 (at least 4 per day)

Responsible: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz

Tasks:

• see Talkmeister
• Track managers are responsible for their tracks (?)
• The talkmeister job has to be done in english, so you should be comfortable speaking to an audience in english

Volunteers:

1. Brian Thomason (Cloud Track)
2. sorina
3. tassia
4. janapirat

Dishwashing (only evening)

Volunteers needed: ~16-28 (the more the better, at least 4 per day)

Responsible: Raphaël Walther

Dishwashing schedule

Tasks:

• Dishwashing using the industrial dishwasher in the Le Camp kitchen
• Clean the tables in the dining room
• For this task it's best to spread the load as much as possible, we encourage everyone to help at least once to share the load.

Volunteers:

1. Holger Levsen
2. Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
3. Didier Raboud
4. Kevin Müller
5. David Prévot
6. Michael Germini
7. urbec
8. intrigeri
9. Santiago
10. sorina
11. Solveig
12. Sarah
13. Andreas Gläser
14. Alfusainey Jallow
15. tassia
16. Aude
17. Daniel Glassey
18. gregoa
19. zlatan
20. Ursus
21. carnil
22. Lunar
23. Andi Mundt
24. Eric Anholt
25. Jonathan Dupart
26. Arne Wichmann
27. Elimar Riesebieter
28. Eike

Video Team

Volunteers needed: 4 per talk and one extra for the _full_ morning / afternoon

Responsible: Holger Levsen

Tasks per event:

• two Camera operators
• Video Mixer
• Sound mixer

Task per morning / afternoon

• Room Coordinator

If you plan to volunteer in the video-team, please add yourself to DebConf13/Videoteam/Help once to let us know you'll be on the team and then use the pentabarf-interface to volunteer for specific event. How to do this is described in the Help wiki-page.

Other (non recurring) tasks

We need volunteers on Saturday 10th and Sunday 18th August for setup and teardown of the talk rooms, front-desk, bar and hacklabs. Everyone regardless of the team he want's to join is invited to help. Additionally we need volunteers for other tasks.

To have enough volunteers on Saturday we offer an additional free night from Friday to Saturday and dinner on Friday to those arriving early to help with setup.

Setup

Volunteers needed: ~20-30

Volunteers (please also note the time when you arrive at the Venue):

1. h01ger
2. sorina - arrive on 8th
3. Alfusainey Jallow
4. tassia - arrive on 6th
5. tiago - arrive on 6th
6. Daniel Glassey (arrive on 10th, at about 1pm)
7. rhalina - arrive on 6th
8. Raphaël Walther - arrive on 6th
9. Andi Mundt - arrive on 6th
10. Elmar Heeb - arrive on 9th/evening (on the registration I have from 10th)
11. Wolodja (babilen) - arrive on 9th
12. Arne Wichmann - arrive on 6th
13. Uli Scholler - arrive on 10th (~15:00h)
14. Richard Hartmann -- arrival on 10.08. ~0200-0300
15. Simó Albert i Beltran -- arrive on 10th in the morrning (hopefully).

Teardown

Volunteers needed: ~20

Volunteers (please also note the time you have to leave):

1. h01ger
2. Alfusainey Jallow
3. tiago - leaving on 18th anytime
4. urbec - leaving on 18th anytime
5. rhalina - 18th
6. Raphaël Walther - 18th anytime
7. Andi Mundt - leaving on 18th anytime
8. Jonathan Dupart - leaving on 18th before 14h
9. chrysn -- leaving on 18th to reach 20:00 train from YLB
10. Elmar Heeb -- 18th anytime
11. Arne Wichmann - 18th
12. Elimar Riesebieter - 18th
13. tzafrir - 18th anytime
14. Richard Hartmann -- leaving on 18.08. at around noon
15. Simó Albert i Beltran -- leaving on 18th anytime or later if it's needed
16. jack - 18th anytime
17. Thomas Koch 18th - (If sbd. could give me a lift in direction to Zürich (or Kreuzlingen!) I can stay longer)
18. nabajour -- leaving on 18th mid-afternoon
19. sorina - leaving on 18th, afternoon/evening
20. sre - leaving on 18th, taking the bus at 18:11
21. aba - leaving with 14.11 bus (or with 16.07 train)
22. intrigeri - 19th
23. Solveig - 19th
24. taffit - ???
25. sblondon - 18th anytime

Arrival days

We would like to have some volunteers for random tasks, e.g. preparing conference bags, helping attendees from bus station, etc. More information later (or at Front Desk).

1. Penta 2706 - from Saturday on

We would like also to have one or two volunteers in Yverdon-Les-Bains, helping attendees to find the right bus, to buy the right tickets, etc.:

Cheese and Wine Party

Helping preparing the tables, to label cheese, etc. More information later.

Debian Birthday Party

More information later.