[Inpycon] Call for Volunteers | PyCon India 2018

[Ananyo Maiti]

Hi Arushit,

On Tue 17 Apr, 2018, 8:21 PM Arushit Mudgal, <rshtmudgal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to volunteer for the upcoming event but I couldn't see any
> technical assistance needed. I will be spending my summer in Delhi and
> although the event requires more of non-technical work, I wanted to know
> are there any technical volunteer required.
>

Yes there are tasks related to Website and Dev work that need to need to be
done. I recently posted the Website/Dev tasks in the MoM of the Website
Workgroup here
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2018-April/012016.html . You can
volunteer for those tasks.

 Best,
 Ananyo


> Thank you
>
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, 02:45 Chirag Choudhary, <chirag200666 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everybody
>>
>> It's that time of the year again! The excitement amongst many of us have
>> been rising regarding our beloved conference & call for volunteers is
>> finally here.
>>
>> As you know PyCon India is a community event. Here each and every task is
>> done by a volunteer. And here is the opportunity for You to be a part of
>> the community.
>>
>> But before you register to volunteer, there are few things you should be
>> aware of:
>>
>>    - Volunteering takes time and effort, sometimes a lot of it. For
>>    online activities like handling social networks or handling registrations
>>    etc take a lot of time. And sometimes rapid decisions have to be made. So
>>    if you're volunteering, make sure you have the time. If you're unavailable
>>    at a certain time period of the day, let us know beforehand.
>>    - If you're volunteering for offline activities e.g. on spot
>>    registration or settings up stages or handling video recording, anything
>>    that has to be done on the venue during the event, there is a good chance
>>    that you won't be able to attend the sessions you just registered for. If
>>    someone needs you, you have to be there.
>>    - Volunteering is not a free way into the event. At PyCon India,
>>    everybody buys tickets. Even the event organizers buy tickets. We volunteer
>>    because we love Python and PyCon, and want the event to be awesome.
>>    - Volunteers are the most important part of the event. Without the
>>    volunteers, the event cannot happen. So even if you are attending PyCon for
>>    the first time, we encourage you to volunteer with whatever you can. If you
>>    don't want to miss any sessions, then volunteer for smaller tasks.
>>
>>
>> If you're interested in volunteering, fill up this google form:
>> https://goo.gl/forms/EhBMHRflWmsGXlYi2, subscribe to the mailing list.
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>>
>> As many of you might know we are incorporating workgroup structure this
>> year which will take responsibility for getting things done for various
>> teams of PyCon India 2018. Here is the brief again:
>>
>> *Workgroup* - Core group of people responsible for the execution of
>> tasks mandated for a given team. The workgroup is also responsible for
>> setting guidelines on the team's working. The workgroup formation was
>> announced recently here:
>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2018-April/011914.html
>>
>> *Volunteers* - The workgroup along with the volunteers execute the
>> various tasks in the shape and form as agreed within the workgroup. Each
>> Volunteer team will consist of people from the Workgroup who will assign
>> tasks and manage the group.
>>
>> To ease the communication between different volunteer teams, we have
>> decided to use Discord as our chat platform this year. Discord is free to
>> use chat platform & is quite popular in the open source community.
>> Invitation to the discord channels will be sent to you soon after you fill
>> the volunteer form.
>>
>> Looking forward to your contribution to the conference. :)
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Chirag
>>
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