Call for volunteers on GUADEC

[Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com>]

Hi all, 

The GNOME Foundation has recently sent out a call for bids for hosting GUADEC 2012 [1]. We are also calling for volunteers to help with organizing GUADEC.  You can help regardless of where you might be located. 


We would like to setup both a GUADEC event
 committee and also a local team of volunteers on the ground at the 
event location. It would be very much appreciated if people with 
experience hosting past GUADEC events could get involved and help make 
this event a success.

Even if the local team changes every GUADEC, there would be value having
 a core and stable event committee to ensure good planning going forward
 for GUADEC 2012 and future GUADEC events. 
 
The GUADEC committee can help things on:

• Manage call for bids, including helping with review selection
  
• Build the website infrastructure including a registration system and use it for every GUADEC 
• Draft call for sponsorship, call for paper documents etc
  
• Share Sponsors' contact
  
• Have regular meetings (usually IRC) with the local team once the bid is chosen
  
• Focus on continually improving the process, including post-event reports.
• The event committee would help with international sponsorship opportunities while the local team would likely focus more on local sponsorship opportunities.
• Art design 
• Other

If you would like to help volunteer and organize GUADEC by being a part 
of a GNOME event committee, then please step us and let us know. We are
 open to any suggestions and discussion. We enourage you to use GUADEC-list [2] mail list and  #guadec IRC channel at irc.us.gimp.org for more discussion.

Thanks, 
Emily 

[1]. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2011-April/msg00001.html
[2]. http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list