FOSDEM 2012 – Call for Volunteers
From the post:
FOSDEM 2012 is almost upon us, and we’re looking for motivated people to help us make it a success again. If you’ve visited FOSDEM in the past, you’ve probably seen our enthusiastic army of volunteers that helped us make FOSDEM a pleasant experience for all our visitors. If you want to be a part of this great team, here’s your chance to sign up!
More specifically, we need help with the following tasks:
- Setting up the venue
- Manning the infodesk
- Handling the donations
- Translating for our foreign guests
- Handling taxis for speakers
- Moderating the main tracks and the lightning talks
- Room security: barring entrance to overcrowded rooms
- Cleaning up after the event
- …
Also new this year, we’re looking for volunteers to help with the video recordings. If you have experience handling digital video equipment, be sure to mention this in your application!
This is a chance for you to be a goodwill ambassador for topic maps.
Volunteering for FOSDEM is good for topic maps because:
- You will meet new people. (That is you won’t be facing a keyboard/monitor when introduced.)
- New people may ask about your interests. (It’s like an online survey but verbal.)
- You can talk about your interests. (Same as #2.)
- You can ask new people about their interests. (It’s called being polite, if you listen to the response.)
- Real time, full bandwidth interaction with others can socialize topic maps. (Particularly over beer.)
Seriously, give the folks at FOSDEM a hand. It is truly a great way to meet people and to get a feel for what it really takes to run a conference.
Will make you truly appreciate smooth running conferences.
