Re: Volunteering

[Amin Bandali]

Hi Leo,

It's great hearing from you here!

Leo Vivier writes:

> Hi there,
>
> I’ve spoken with Amin today about my ability to help out with the
> event.
>
> I will be available in the couple of weeks leading up to it, as well as
> during the event itself.  I’ve got experience in organising and
> animating academic events, and I believe this will translate well for
> EmacsConf.
>
> My chief contribution could be in hosting parts of the events, if you
> happen to be in need of people.  I’ve been working alongside bzg to
> breath new air into the French Emacs community, notably by participating
> and hosting our monthly meetups, and we’ve had a measure of success.
>

Fantastic!  I think we could definitely use help in those areas/aspects.
Sacha and I were just chatting the other day about the possibility of
having some sessions continue longer off-stream after their official
allotted time slot, e.g. to have a proper Q&A session with the audience.
If we end up doing that, we would likely need one or more people to take
over managing/running such sessions once the main MC/streamer (probably
me, going by last year's general setup) moves on to the next session.

> 
> To gauge my style of presentation, you can watch the couple of
> org-roam presentations I’ve uploaded on YouTube:
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvrQyT2xhsxq2a4Xopf2JTA
>
> As much as I’d love to share the recordings of our Parisian meetups, I’d
> first need the consent of all the participants, and even then, it’d be
> in French, which might be of a little use for you.
>
> I could also give you a hand with the review process for the proposals.
> My expertise is on org-mode, org-roam, FLOSS advocacy (esp. in academic
> circles), and FLOSS sustainability.  That being said, I’d readily
> welcome venturing outside of my comfort zone.
>

Thanks.  As I briefly mentioned on IRC earlier today, I think our plan
at this point is to accept and host as many talks as we can, much like
last year.  And we already completed an initial round of reviews.  So I
think there isn't much to be done there as of now.  But I'm about to
reach out to everyone who submitted proposals for EmacsConf 2020 to our
emacsconf-submit@ list to start working a more concrete schedule out.
Thankfully, Sacha has already done tremendous work in preparing a draft
schedule, including taking into account the (un)availability of each
speaker.  But we following up with speakers and working towards a more
rigid/concrete schedule will still require quite some effort and we'd
definitely appreciate getting help with that. :-)

>
> Thanks for all your work so far, and I look forward to assisting you in
> this brilliant endeavour.
>
> Best,

Thank you for the kind words, and thanks again for volunteering to help
out, Leo!

Looking forward to having you onboard and helping with the conference.

Best,
amin

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