Volunteers

Important notice The program for the Workshop & BoF days has now been published. Go to the Workshops & BoFs webpage for more information.

Sign up as a Volunteer!

To sign up, please follow closely the following steps:

1. Before filling your name in, please read the Call for Volunteers.
2. Edit the table below and fill in your name and data. To edit the table you need to log in with your Desktop Summit web site credentials ("Log In" link in the top right corner). In the table please provide your name, your Desktop Summit user id, the languages you speak, whether you know Berlin and the time/days when you are available.
3. Please make sure to add your mobile telephone number to your Desktop Summit user profile.
4. Please join the volunteer IRC channel #desktopsummit on freenode and subscribe to the volunteer mailinglist.

Available Areas (Choose one or more)

• Registration (includes pre-registration and information desk)
  • Staff the info or registration desk and help people locate their badges, rooms etc.
  • selling merchandising
• Video
  • Setting up
  • Help record the sessions (training provided, the recording is done with a PC, no prior experience required though useful)
• Session Chair
  • Announce speakers, make sure they finish in time, Q&A, speaker's water, etc.
• Setting Up & Tearing down (conference rooms and infrastructure)
  • Move chairs around, bring drinks to the conference rooms, lay cables, ...
• Lightning Talks (moderating)
  • Like session chair - introduce speakers, make sure they finish in their allotted time, take additional ad-hoc submissions, run (and find) count-down software etc.
• Soccer Game (including referee)
  • If you know soccer you can help :D
• Runners/Porters
  • Bringing things from core desk to rooms, finding people when needed, knowledge of local shops and where to get things, etc.
• Manning press room
  • Take care that the journalists have what they need
• Doorkeepers
  • For the social events (e.g., check badges, provide directions, etc...)

Sign up (Add your name here)

Name	DS Userid	Are you a local?	Language(s)	Which day/times can you help?	*Comments
Sean Cox	seancox	N	ENG& Some german	Anytime needed	Registration, odd jobs, whatever is needed
Tobias Hunger	hunger	Y	DE,EN	Thursday before event to sunday after event	...
Adam Reviczky	reviczky	N	DE,EN	Sat 9am-11:20am	...
Christian Hartmann	hartmann	Y	DE,EN	basically everyday everytime	Registration, Session Chair, Organization
David King	davidking	Y	EN	Saturday 6th - Monday 8th August	...
Michael Hill	michaelhill	N	EN	Saturday 6th - Wednesday 10th August	...
Anne Wilson	AnneWilson	N	EN	Friday 5th - Friday 12th August	Registration, and odd-jobs
Kevin Benavides	benavidescastro	N	ES,EN	basically everyday everytime	Registration, and odd-jobs
Daniel Laidig	laidig	Y	DE,EN	basically everyday everytime	Registration, and odd-jobs
Jesse Zbikowski	zbikowski	N	en_US	all day, 5 Aug - 8 Aug	Session Chair, Lightning Talks
Valorie Zimmerman	zimmerman	N	EN	Arriving Wed. Aug 3, to 10th	Registration, odd jobs, whatever is needed
Julita Inca	julitainca	N	ES,EN,DE	Wed. Aug 6 to 12th	Runners/Porters, odd jobs, whatever is needed
Mousumi Bhattacharya	mousumib	N	EN	Saturday 6th - Thursday 11th August	Registration, and odd-jobs
Konstantin Scheumann	scheumann	Y	DE,EN	basically everyday everytime	...
Matthias Kretz	mkretz	N	DE,EN	6th - 9th	Session Chair, Video (experienced sound engineer + some video experience)
Laura Dragan	ldragan	N	EN,RO	6th-9th	Anything that doesn't involve talking in public.
Effiong Aniekan	effiong	N	EN	All through the event	Registration, organization.
Vitor Boschi	vitorboschi	N	EN,PT-BR	All through the event	photography, video
Siddharth Sharma	siddharthsharma	N	EN,RU	basically whenever needed	Network or Systems Support, anything that doesn't involve talking in public.
Jiri Eischmann	eischmann	N	EN,CZ	probably through the event	Registration, organization, manning press room etc.
Behdad Esfahbod	esfahbod	N	EN,FA	Core days, not early in the morning!	Session chair.
Luca Pizzamiglio	pizzamiglio	Y	IT,EN,DE	5th-7th	Anything that doesn't involve talking in public.
Edevbie Clifford	edevbie	N	NG,EN	All through the event	Registration, organization,talking in public,etc
Florian Wilhelm	wilhelm	N	DE,EN	all time	Video, Registration and what else is needed
Inu Kim	inwookim	Y	EN,KO,JP,DE	all time	...
Carl Symons	symons, kallecarl(IRC)	N	EN	any time	session chair assistance, registration, Lightning Talks
Claudia Rauch	rauch	Y	DE,EN	most of the time, not Tuesday (need to be at KDE AGM)	registration, setting up, tearing down, session chair
Eitan Isaacson	isaacson	N	EN,HE,AR	any time	Whatevs
Frederik Gladhorn	gladhorn	N	DE,EN,ES	6th-8th	Session Chair (would like the accessibility track on Monday, no pref otherwise), Lightning Talks
Nuno Pinheiro	Pinheiro	N	EN,PT,ES	any time except my own talk, and last day	Session Chair, Lightning Talks
Arthur Arlt	arthurarlt	N	DE,EN	5th-8th	Video and anything what is needed
Eckhart Wörner	ewoerner	N	DE,EN	5th-12th	Anything but soccer ;-)
Till Adam	tilladam	Y	DE,EN	5th-12th	session chair, lightning talks, as needed
Laszlo Papp	djszapi	N	HU, EN	5th-12th	Video recording
Helio Chissini de Castro	helio	N	PT, EN	5th-12th	Soccer referee !!
Daniel Glassey	glassey	N	EN	5th-8th	Video
Joanna Stabel Gil	stabelgil	N	EN, PT-BR	All through the event.	Video, photografy.
Felix Kaser	kaser	N	EN, DE, IT	Setting up before the event	I will be in Berlin from 1.8. until 8.8., I could help setting up the venue and at registration on Friday.
Vishesh Handa	vHanda	N	EN, Hindi	5th - 13th	Session Chair, Setting Up & Tearing down, Lightning Talks. Don't make me provide directions. I have no direction sense whatsoever.
Nirbheek Chauhan	chauhan	N	EN, HI	5th - 13th	Session Chair, Setting Up & Tearing Down, Lightning Talks, Runners/Porters. I'd prefer to keep running around than stand in one place.
Fabio Araujo	araujo	N	EN, PT-BR	6th - 12th	Video, odd jobs, whatever
Florian Nadge	nadge	N	EN, DE, CZ, SK, UK	6th - 9th	Multilingual services, translation, interpretation, editing, etc.
Lasse Liehu	lliehu	N	EN	6th - 8th	Video and odd jobs
Anita Reitere	reitere	N	EN, RU	5th - 12th	Registration, odd jobs
John Layt	jlayt	N	EN	The whole week	Session chair, set-up/tear-down, whatever needs doing, you know me :-) Already doing talks, BoF chairing and KDE eV stuff so not available during those times.
David Edmundson	davidedmundson	N	EN	Thursday before event, the whole week, but leaving early on the last day	Registration, odd jobs, running about.
Gil Forcada	forcada	N	EN, CA (Catalan not Canadian), ES	The whole week	Registration and info-desk as all previous GUADECs.
Marc Redemske	redemske	N	EN, DE	5th - 12th	Everything that needs to be done
Tadeja Kadunc	kadunc	N	EN, SI, DE	6th and 7th for sure	...
Jonas Mueller	jonasemuller	N	DE, DK, EN, SV	6th - 12th	registration, doorkeeping, odd jobs
João Paulo Rechi Vita	rechivita	N	PT_BR, EN, ES, IT	5h - 12th	session chair, press room, multilingual jobs.
elf Pavlik	pavlikelf	N & Y	EN, PL	5th - 11th	I know Berlin quite well...
Marc-André	Lureau	N	EN, FR	8th-11th	setting up, tearing down, session chair, video
Thomas Fischer	thomasfischer	N	DE, EN, SV	8th–	session chair
Pascal Mages	mages	N	DE, FR, SP, EN	5th 12-24, 6th 8-10, 18-24 and lunch break, 7th 8-9, 18-24 and lunch break, 8th 8-9, 17-24 and lunch break, 9th all day, 10th 8-14	where ever help is needed, as long as I don't miss the keynotes I want to see.
Christina Scherwionke	caliope	Y	DE, EN	5th–8th	registration
Daniel Molkentin	danimo	Y	DE, EN	5th–8th	registration, session chair, odd jobs
Olav Vitters	vitters	N	NL,EN	Not early in the morning	assisted registration desk last GUADEC