Mailman 3 March 2013 - Pycon-volunteers

Please go to the green room (206) for training if you have not yet.
by Douglas Napoleone 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

All, There have been a number of people whom have joined the volunteer pool while here at PyCon. THANK YOU!!!!! The entire conference is run by volunteers, and we can only do this together! Session Runners and Session Chairs need to talk to David or Mathieu in the Green Room (206) to get training if you have not yet done so. It takes less than 5 min, and is simple. Please stop by in the middle of a talk (not the beginning or end, it is a bit busy then ;-) for training. Thank you all again! -Doug

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Session Runner Needed - Saturday Afternoon - Session # 32
by Yarko Tymciurak 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

We still need a session runner: https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/session/32/ Also, Sunday: https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/session/32/ https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/session/38/ Can anyone take one of these? Thank you! -- Regards, - Yarko

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Still need a session chair
by Douglas Napoleone 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Still need a session chair for 1 session, first thing this morning: https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/session/23/ Can someone pick this up? -Doug

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Saturday 8:30AM lightning talks signup
by Noah Kantrowitz 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

I just went to retrieve the signup sheets for LTs tomorrow and found that someone had crossed out "8:30AM" and written "5:40PM" on all the sheets. It also looks like one sheet is missing. If this sheet had actual signups for tomorrow morning then I need it ASAP, otherwise we have _no_ signups for talks in the morning slot tomorrow. If anyone has this sheet, please get it to me so I can send out the relevant emails. --Noah

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Volunteers needed: Raspberry Pi Lab
by Noah Kantrowitz 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

Anyone that has experience with Raspberry Pis in particular or electronics in general we would love to have more folks in the lab (room 203/204). If you have any questions please just ask myself or Peter Kropf. --Noah

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Need Runners!
by Anna Ravenscroft 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

The Green Room needs runners this afternoon at 2:35 and 3:15. Please stop at the Green Room (Rm 206) if you're available. Thanks! -- cordially, Anna

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Session Chairs
by Yarko Tymciurak 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Hi Folks - We still need 10 more session chairs. See http://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/sessions to see where the needs are. Click the session name to take a spot. -- Regards, - Yarko

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Super Secret Handout
by Douglas Napoleone 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

All, Those of you singed up for the super secret handout tomorrow, please meet up in the center of the Expo Hall at 9:50. This is going to be quite a bit of fun! -Doug

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PyCon is upon us!
by Douglas Napoleone 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

All, Thank you, everyone, for volunteering to help out. PyCon is a 100% volunteer run effort, and it would not be possible without you. While the volunteer organizers and staff plan things out before the event, once it starts, all of the real work is done by you; the onsite- volunteer. Without your hard work and sacrifice, there would not be a PyCon. As PyCon grows it has become harder and harder to remain a volunteer effort, but everyone involved feels this is critical to the community nature of the event. This year we have expanded the size of the conference by 20%. 20% more people, 20% more talks, 20% more special events. Of course this means 20% more volunteer slots and 20% more volunteers. And the community has come through. I am once again amazed and humbled. For those of you whom have joined in the past few days, there are a few things you should know: * OPS, and the Green room are in the 200 area rooms on the 2nd floor above the main lobby. * For those arriving early, we will be doing setup in OPS, starting today. Most of the real work will start tomorrow, Tuesday. Feel free to stop by and say hello. * The green room is open to you for the duration of the conference * For those helping out with registration or tutorials on Wednesday and Thursday, please stop by OPS when you can and ask for Yarko, Stuart, or Doug to receive instructions. * After the bag stuffing party on Thursday (4pm in the 200 rooms), there will be an orientation for speakers, session staff, and general volunteers (8:00pm). Please try to attend both if you can. * There is still a bug in the session staff app, where some people are showing up as a blank string. The web team is working on a fix. * Please feel free to use this list to communicate issues and problems, as well at the #pycon irc channel on freenode.net * I (Doug Napoleone) can be reached directly at doug.napoleone(a)gmail.comand via my cell phone: 1-774-644-0049 We still have 15 open slots for session staff, and registration can always use more help. We can fill in these slots by recruiting people on-site. Please spread the word. Once again, thank you all for stepping forward. Lets have a fantastic conference! -Doug Napoleone PyCon 2013 Head of Operations PSF Board of Directors

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Friday morning super-secret swag handout - where to meet?
by Chad Cooper 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Yarko, Where do we volunteers meetup to get ready for the super-double-top-secret swag handout that is Friday morning from 8-10? Expo hall? chad

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