Hi, We're looking for volunteers to help coordinate talks in the two main rooms during DebConf13. Playing this role is fun. Your job as a talk coordinator, named "Talkmeister" will be basic logistics:
- make sure you can find the speaker(s) and greet them nicely - help them with the microphone/video setup, if needed - provide water for the speaker to drink - make sure the video team is ready before starting the talk - make sure the speaker knows when the talk starts and stops (all talks are 45 minutes long) - at the start of the session, clearly announce the topic of the session, and (briefly!) introduce the speaker. - give the speaker an indication when 10 minutes, 5 minutes, and 1 minute remain in their talk. - during discussion/Q&A, run microphones for questions from audience, if needed. How to volunteer: The conference management system (penta) is used to coordinate the talkmeister role. Please sign up there: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/volunteer/schedule (pick the role "Talkmeister"). If you're willing to volunteer to coordinate multiple talks (please do!), then try to sign up for several talks contiguously. e.g. pick a talk room, and coordinate every talk in that room before (or after) lunch, or sign for an entire track of your interest (on that cases just ping [email protected] and we do the dirty penta job for you :) Thanks a lot! ps: in case you face permission issues in penta please mail [email protected] -- the DebConf team _______________________________________________ Debconf-announce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-announce
