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Volunteering:

Pycon 2011 Volunteer Signup

Here's where you can match your talents & interest to a on-site volunteer role. Volunteering at Pycon could possibly be the greatest thing you will ever do. Ever!

How to volunteer

Just edit this wiki page. Include your name and email address in the spot you'd like to volunteer for.

In general, the things we're going to need people for are:

Registration desk volunteers
Swag bag stuffers
Session Staff
Tutorial day help
Electrical cord tapers / untapers
Last minute helper mob
Network Setup/Teardown

How To Show Up

Check in at the Registration Desk. Also, remember to follow http://twitter.com/pyconvolunteers (see below).

Swag bag stuffers

This will take place beginning Tuesday, until it's done.

Schedule:

Tues	4:00PM - 6:00PM (informal: only if someone available to setup)
	6:00PM - 8:00PM
Wed	1:00PM - 5:30PM
Thur	1:00PM - 5:30PM
	5:30PM - until it's done! (only if needed)

NOTE: There are 11hrs of "formal" bag stuffing. This means to get 1500 stuffed, we need (on average) at least 15 people during these hours.

Please include your name, your email address, and when you plan to help out, along with any notes (like when you get to the hotel). Thanks!

Volunteer Name, volunteer at example.com (Arriving Tuesday at 2PM)
Jan G., jgannon@google.com, Thursday 4:30PM till it's done.
Mike D. mike@pythonlibrary.org, (Arriving in ATL @ 2 PM)
Eric H. eric@deployfx.com, Thursday 5PM till it's done.
Mark H. mark@deployfx.com, Thursday 5PM till it's done.
Howard Whitston, hwhitston@usouthal.edu, Thursday 5PM till it's done.
Stephan Deibel, sdeibel at wingware dot com, Thu 5PM assuming on time flight 'til done.

Registration Desk Volunteers

Volunteers are especially needed Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings, from 7:30am on (come help for an hour before your morning tutorial!)

Registration Desk Hours:

Tues	6:00PM - 8:00PM (as early as 4:00 if volunteers available)
Wed	7:00AM - 5:00PM
Thur	7:00AM - 5:00PM
Fri	7:00AM - 10:00AM
	10:00AM - 5:00PM (skeleton crew)
Sat	8:00AM - Noon (skeleton crew)

We will be printing badges on demand (four workstations) so we need people to run the stations, plus people to get names, bags, and badges together. The registration desk is near the ballrooms.

Please include your name, your email address, and the time-slot we can count on you for, along with any notes (like when you get to the hotel). Thank you!

Volunteer Name, volunteer at example.com (Friday, 4PM-6PM)
Jay Kelkar, jkelkar@gmail.com, Wed 7:30-9:00, Thu-Fri 7:30-10, I am local
Howard Whitston, hwhitston@usouthal.edu, (???)
your entry here...

Session Staff

Note: we need to setup a way for session staff to volunteer for particular sessions;
Stay tuned!

Tutorial Day Help

We need one person per tutorial session on Wednesday and Thursday to help direct traffic and handle issues that come up during the classes. Just sign up to one of the slots below with your name and your email address:

Wednesday AM: Jay K. jkelkar@gmail.com
Wednesday PM: Jay K. jkelkar@gmail.com
Thursday AM: Jan G. jgannon@google.com
Thursday PM: Jay K. jkelkar@gmail.com
Thursday PM: Howard Whitston, hwhitston@usouthal.edu

Electrical cord tapers / untapers

We may be taping down power strips in the tutorial rooms on Tuesday evening, and in the ballrooms on Thursday (probably evening). Power strips will be removed from the ballrooms on Sunday evening.

Please include your name, your email address, and when you plan to help out, along with any notes (like when you get to the hotel). Merci beaucoup!

Volunteer Name, volunteer at example.com (Sunday evening)
Jan G., jgannon@google.com, (Tuesday Evening) (Sunday Evening)
Jay K., jkelkar@gmail.com, (Thursday & Sunday Evening - Tuesday if needed)
your entry here...

Last minute helper mob

We'll probably need people here and there to help out, if we can call you or SMS message you, that would be great. Sign up by following the http://twitter.com/pyconvolunteers twitter channel. Calls for mob-like volunteer opportunities will go out as the need arises.

Network Setup/Teardown

Some small networking setup will need to happen late the night of the 8th for tutorials.
A lot of help (10 or more people) is needed for running cables and setting up switches and APs the night of the 10th, before the main part of the conference.
Then some small effort to remove or move gear the afternoon of the 13th, and some more the evening of the 17th.

Please include your name, your email address, and when you plan to help out, along with any notes (like when you get to the hotel). Thanks!