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Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Talk scheduling, volunteers needed



On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 20:18 -0430, Vanessa Gutierrez wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 00:30 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > we need one or more volunteers who are willing to do the scheduling of
> > our talks. If multiple people volunteer: You need to be able to work
> > together online (ie. IRC) on it, mail will most likely have too huge
> > delays.
> > 
> 

Hi, my name is Vanessa Gutiérrez from Venezuela, I'm starting to get
involved with the debian project so I'll be glad to help :)

> 
> > Now, the task you would commit to:
> > 
> >  - you get a list of talks, together with a list of speakers and their
> >    (hopefully correct) arrival/departure dates.
> > 
> >  - you have to find a schedule for those, that fits all speakers and all
> >    the rest of DebConf, while trying to avoid scheduling possibly
> >    conflicting events at the same time, and trying to guess how many
> >    people might want to watch a talk, so you chose the right room.
> > 
> >  - you have to start soon (we are nearly ready to announce the selected
> >    events) and the work will end at the time DebConf ends.
> >    I repeat: This task will follow you from now until DebConf ends! But
> >    the *main* work will be within the next weeks.
> > 
> >  - you should have done this task a year ago already, so people could
> >    have selected the talks they want to watch during DC7 already. :)
> > 
> 

well, here we have a little problem since this will be my first
debconf... but I think that I'm capable of doing these tasks.
> 
> > 
> > Mark, who did the scheduling for DC7, volunteered to teach you "all the
> > nice details people should keep in mind when doing this work" from his
> > experience as one who already had the glory to do this work. Or, in
> > other words: Last years victim will tell you his mistakes, so that you can
> > make new ones instead. :)
> >  
> 

It'd be really nice, so I can catch up with some of the details and
understand how things work around here ;)

> 
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> 
> How can I get in touch with you people???? I'll be hanging around
> #debconf @ OFTC my nickname is titacgs

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