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<h1 id="volunteer-to-help-at-apachecon">Volunteer to help at ApacheCon</h1>
<p>Coordination of ApacheCon happens on two lists:</p>
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<li>The private <a href="mailto:planners@apachecon.com">planners@apachecon.com</a> mailing list for most of the
planning work</li>
<li>The public <a href="mailto:apachecon-discuss@apache.org">apachecon-discuss@apache.org</a> mailing list for general
discussion, calls for volunteers, announcements, and so on.</li>
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<p>At this time, we can use help in the following areas - typically for each ApacheCon that happens.
To volunteer, please send email to the <em>apachecon-discuss</em> mailing list indicating your availability.</p>
<h2 id="calls-for-papers">Calls For Papers</h2>
<p>The CFP for each ApacheCon draws hundreds of submissions about projects all
around the ASF. We always need volunteers who can show up <strong>on time</strong>
when the CFP closes to help rate talks and schedule specific tracks.
Many Apache PMCs are now managing their own tracks or co-located events
at ApacheCon, which is great.</p>
<h2 id="promotions-and-publicity">Promotions and Publicity</h2>
<p>While the ApacheCon Planners work with VP, Marketing &amp; Publicity for some
basic services, we always could use Apache committers retweeting and
amplifying the official notices about conferences.</p>
<p>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/apachecon">@ApacheCon</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/apachecon">@TheASF</a>, and help spread their message about upcoming events.</p>
<h2 id="website">Website</h2>
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<li>Keep this <code>events.apache.org</code> <a href="https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/concom/site/trunk/content">website source code updated</a>. Possibly make it look better.</li>
<li>Work with Infra and the planning team to improve the site design.</li>
<li>At the end of the event, archive the current event information to the past events area, and start the new event section.</li>
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<h2 id="hackathon-coordinator">Hackathon Coordinator</h2>
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<li>Alert projects that a hackathon is available for each conference. Encourage them to
have a plan ahead of time as to what they&rsquo;ll work on</li>
<li>Make signs for the various tables</li>
<li>Welcome people and help them find the community that they&rsquo;re looking for</li>
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<h2 id="local-interest">Local interest</h2>
<p>Preferably someone that lives local to the venue: Update the website to indicate what the local attractions are - restaurants, beaches, bars, dance venues, and so on. Update content in wiki, and work with Producer to update the main event website.</p>
<h2 id="meet-the-experts-coordinator">&ldquo;Meet the experts&rdquo; coordinator</h2>
<p>Identify people that can participate in a &ldquo;meet the experts&rdquo; area. Determine what this entails. Coordinate scheduling of this event with Producer and VP Conferences. Promote the event.</p>
<h2 id="lightning-talks">Lightning Talks</h2>
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<li>Write up web page defining the lightning talks</li>
<li>Promote the lightning talks to our community</li>
<li>Work with LightningTalk MCs to pre-register volunteers that want to speak&lt;</li>
<li>(Maybe) find an organization that wants to sponsor this event and
work with Producer to determine the nature of the event and when it will be</li>
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