[Brisbane-pm] Fwd: OSDC volunteers: photos, Brisbane info, shirts, bags, etc.

[Jacinta Richardson]

OSDC was started and originally run by Melbourne Perl Mongers, and has had a 
strong Perl presence ever since.  If you've been wanting to feel more involved 
in OSDC now that it's happening in Brisbane, now's your chance.  Below you'll 
find Arjen's call for volunteers.  Depending on your task you may be able to ask 
for free registration.  It's certainly worth a try!  ;)

Please contact Arjen: arjen at lentz.com.au  if you're available to help out with 
any of this!

All the best,

	Jacinta


Begin forwarded message:

From: Arjen Lentz <arjen at lentz.com.au>
Date: 4 August 2007 11:40:20 AM
Subject: OSDC volunteers: photos, Brisbane info, shirts, bags, etc.

(please feel free to forward this to any local list you may deem
relevant - for gigs that involve dealing with local providers of services, 
people based around Brisbane would be preferred.)

Hi everybody,

As you might have read, the OSDC 2007 CfP yielded over 100 proposals
and the program committee has been busy wading through it all. No
confirmations yet, there's a lot of work there. Andrae has got his job cut out 
for him!

In the coming months, there's a lot more that needs doing, and we're
looking to you for these tasks. If you want to volunteer of any of
these, please write to me!

  - high-res photos of the Bris skyline, city botanical gardens, other
general images (URGENT - we have an offer to get some free printed advertising 
in magazines)
     Photos can also be used on the website, and naturally the
photographer gets credited!

  - Brisbane info... a general story on Bris, the area around the
conference venue, alternative places to stay, places to eat, things to do 
before/after the conference, etc. For an idea on this, see the 2006 site (link 
on the left bar from 2007 site) which has info about Melbourne. So, if you
reckon you can do some research and write this up (augmented by photos from
the prior point) that would be grand.

  - People to handle the conference bags, shirts and other things.
There are ideas and known sources and in some cases quotes. You will need to
research vendors based on this, get more quotes/samples, and follow through to
the final delivery within our needed time frame.

We'd prefer different people for each of these items, so you can focus
on the one vendor in the end and see it through to completion.

  - People with desktop publishing skills. The conference book will
need assembling. You will need to be able to use Acrobat to merge PDFs and
do other layout stuff. James Iseppi has offered QUT facilities (Macs with
Acrobat and other graphical tools) if necessary. This gig would also
involve dealing with a printing company, although that could be made a
separate task for another person.

  - The existing web site is fairly simple, and uses some server-side
includes. If you reckon you can do some additional magic with it,
please feel free to volunteer. Functional is more important than fancier
though... it's a live site, with program and early bird registrations before too
long.

  - If you want to volunteer for something else specifically, please
drop me a note!


Please note that although all of OSDC is a volunteer effort, it's
serious stuff. If you take it on, you need to put in the effort and time and
work with the others to make things happen. Everybody will be relying on
you.

With an event such as this, there are various things dependent on
others, so deadlines are a necessity. For instance, if the conference bags
aren't ready, they can't be "stuffed". You get the idea.
You are not left on your own, but you'll have taken responsibility for
the task and this it's considered "done". They're all responsible jobs.

Thanks all!
On behalf of the OSDC 2007 organising gang,
Arjen.
(mob. 0438 210 269)