Call for Volunteers 2025 #100
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| title: "Call for Volunteers: DjangoCon US 2025" | ||
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| As our program chair, Drew Winstel, mentioned in his opening remarks today, we would love to have more volunteers for DjangoCon US 2025. Expect to hear details on dates and venues within the next month or so. |
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If @PeterGrand is happy to plug this during the Wednesday opening remarks, put him in here instead of me. Also maybe be a little more vague about when we'll announce the conference
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I'm going to remove this paragraph entirely. Peter's got a lot on his plate and I'd rather let him fit things in as needed. The callout doesn't do much in my opinion.
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| The program committee is responsible for making sure that the schedule of tutorials and talks is the best it can be. |
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Note that this probably has the second highest time commitment outside the conference chair
| - Update static pages for CFP status | ||
| - Update static pages for venue information | ||
| - Review pull requests from other teams | ||
| - Add sponsors as directed by sponsorship team |
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@sodevious this one is also all yours
| - Help keynote speakers get presentation mode working if needed | ||
| - Answer lots and lots of questions | ||
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| ## Online Team |
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@blulady I attempted to define the online responsibilities as best I could. It could be improved though for sure
| - Tell volunteers where to go | ||
| - Give volunteers tools to succeed |
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can we replace this with something like:
- Lead volunteer orientation on the first morning of the conference
- Create and provide volunteer instructions for each applicable area
- Tell volunteers where to go
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| - Arrange childcare and lactation room | ||
| - Coordinate visa applications | ||
| - Improve accessibility of the venue and conference as a whole |
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When I was gathering info on my responsibilities, improving accessibility didn't seem to be a high priority. Do we want to leave that on the list of responsibilities? (To be clear, I think it would be great to do and I'm sure there's room for improvement.)
Potential responsibilities to add:
- Organize hackathon
- Organize community interviews
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Personally, I think the hackathon actually belongs under the Social team and the community interviews probably under the Communications team. That said, how it worked out this year was fantastic. It was a good example of a person seeing something that was of interest of them and pushing it forward.
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| The program committee is responsible for making sure that the schedule of tutorials and talks is the best it can be. |
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| The program committee is responsible for making sure that the schedule of tutorials and talks is the best it can be. | |
| The program committee is responsible for making sure that the schedule of tutorials and talks is the best it can be. There is both a high degree of influence over the tutorials and talks and a high time commitment when you're a chair of the program committee. |
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@drewbrew do you want this called out explicitly? I tried to make it not sound like an awful gig.
Initial post for the Call for Volunteers for next year to be released during the conference.