WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:25.000 All right, so time for next talk. We have Emma Vals, who is going to software developer 00:26.000 --> 00:32.000 and she's going to present to you why she won't use that for them and why you should too. 00:33.000 --> 00:34.000 Thanks, Adam. 00:37.000 --> 00:41.000 Who's first who's ever volunteer for them in any way here? 00:42.000 --> 00:43.000 Praise your hand. 00:44.000 --> 00:48.000 Oh, that's quite a lot. Of course the orange t-shirts for sure. 00:49.000 --> 00:53.000 So the inspiration for this talk is because I'm a developer advocate and I go around events. 00:53.000 --> 00:59.000 And they always ask me how is it for them and I say, I love it. I say, what do you favorite part, volunteering? 01:00.000 --> 01:06.000 And then I get a lot of people ask me, how do you do that? Is it possible? Yes, it's possible. It's difficult and I try to explain why. 01:07.000 --> 01:09.000 Based on my own experience, of course. 01:10.000 --> 01:14.000 As I said, I'm a developer advocate. I'm based in Barcelona. 01:15.000 --> 01:18.000 I'm a community community community builder. I love organizing events. 01:18.000 --> 01:28.000 Meetups, small conferences, not huge for them, like conferences. And for me, this conference is inspiration because it's a huge community driven conference. 01:29.000 --> 01:32.000 And yes, I'll try to, well, be through my experience. 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 So the first time I volunteered for them, I had been coming before 24. 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 And I didn't have the best of experiences and so maybe you should volunteer. 01:41.000 --> 01:47.000 And that's actually changed my whole experience at for them. I was able to meet people and enjoy it a lot. 01:48.000 --> 01:55.000 What I need in 24, I start putting, I hope you've seen all these brown papers on the walls. 01:56.000 --> 02:00.000 And I volunteer to do that. Why are they doing this? 02:01.000 --> 02:07.000 So they actually explain us. There is someone who actually manages the two volunteers because you're new and volunteering. 02:08.000 --> 02:13.000 And they told us why because you have all these people who stick, put stickers on the walls and everything. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 And it's easier to actually remove the papers. 02:16.000 --> 02:21.000 It's pretty clean, very easily. Otherwise, you would have to spend hours cleaning the walls. 02:22.000 --> 02:27.000 And I've never done that in any band. And it's actually very interesting thing to do. 02:28.000 --> 02:32.000 I also help unloading tracks, setting up rooms, like the big room there. 02:33.000 --> 02:39.000 So I learned a little bit how they work. And it's actually, you just get to what to do with someone who knows how to do it. 02:40.000 --> 02:41.000 So it's not very, it's not scary. 02:41.000 --> 02:50.000 During the event, I went to the InfoDesk selling t-shirts. I chose a very nice shift to Sunday, but it's not too busy. 02:51.000 --> 02:56.000 But I was able to speak to people that were volunteering with me, so it was really nice to meet people. 02:57.000 --> 03:01.000 And also help you help people navigate first them if they are trying to find a room or anything you can help them. 03:02.000 --> 03:08.000 And then they are probably the nicest part I didn't sign up for it, but they was in the cave building on Sunday afternoon. 03:08.000 --> 03:16.000 So they had a lot of job, a lot of work tearing down. So I started helping them. And then the nicest thing is that after that, there is a volunteer dinner. 03:17.000 --> 03:23.000 So you actually get to have dinner, some pizzas and everything with the other volunteers. And it's a really nice thing to do. 03:24.000 --> 03:28.000 So for me, it was a great experience. And I said, from now on, I'm going to volunteer always. 03:29.000 --> 03:32.000 Last year, I was not able to because I had some issues with my leg. 03:32.000 --> 03:42.000 But this year, I volunteer at the software performance dev room. It's another way you can volunteer. You can help manage the rooms. 03:43.000 --> 03:50.000 I didn't apply for a dev room, but I'll explain later how I got into helping the managers of the dev room. 03:51.000 --> 03:56.000 So you'll be asking, what's in it for you? So I guess it's different for everyone. 03:56.000 --> 04:04.000 But for me, for example, for a year I had, I heard very inspiring stories from people who were putting brown paper in the woods with me. 04:05.000 --> 04:11.000 The couple of students who actually were super excited to be at Phosden, they didn't have anywhere to sleep even. 04:12.000 --> 04:20.000 So they were sleeping in the floor here, you'll be. So for me, it reminded me of when I was young and said, well, this is what I should have told when I was young. 04:20.000 --> 04:32.000 So I never appear to me. So it was really interesting. The other thing that I was at the info desk, volunteering and one of my person who was volunteering with me, he was from Poland and were chatting. 04:33.000 --> 04:40.000 And then someone comes by and it's a coworker of him and says, hey, I wanted to introduce you to this is a coworker of my Pablo. He lives in Barcelona. 04:41.000 --> 04:47.000 I am from Barcelona. So it was like, okay, and he turned out to be one of the organizers of the free software Barcelona community. 04:47.000 --> 04:54.000 And after that we've been collaborating a lot. So it's also random people who can meet here that you don't meet at home and was very impressed. 04:55.000 --> 05:03.000 And then for me, the most important part is giving back. So for me, it's very important that I'm helping the organizers make this happen. 05:04.000 --> 05:10.000 I'm an organizer of smaller conferences, but I know the people who volunteer the day of the event are very necessary. 05:10.000 --> 05:17.000 So for me, it feels like even if I can do a small task, I will do it because I know it helps the organization a lot. 05:18.000 --> 05:25.000 And also what's in it for you, for sure, the orange t-shirts. If you are a volunteer, as you can see here in the room. 05:26.000 --> 05:38.000 Or the blue t-shirts, which are the debroom manager. So it's also nice to have this as a reminder that you help that that falls them happen. 05:40.000 --> 05:52.000 Also from my perspective, I'm a community organizer, as I said. So for me, it is amazing how you can organize such a conference, which is decentralized. 05:53.000 --> 05:59.000 It's a massive number of attendees. There is a network that is streaming everything is happening. 06:00.000 --> 06:04.000 The volunteers are almost self-organized. You go to website and it's signed up to volunteer. 06:04.000 --> 06:13.000 So for me, that was pretty impressive. Of course, there is a difference between the court team who actually organizes during the year and the one-time volunteers. 06:14.000 --> 06:25.000 It's a very interesting way of organizing these people, because sometimes you have to look for people, but in this way they just publish the website and people just sign up. 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 And it's really interesting how this happens. 06:29.000 --> 06:38.000 So it's up to you. You don't have to volunteer for the whole weekend. You can volunteer for a couple hours. And that's also very interesting for me. 06:39.000 --> 06:49.000 And that's learning. I'm taking to the other conferences I organize. It's important to have volunteers for the day. They don't have to be in the core organization, because that requires a lot of commitment. 06:50.000 --> 06:55.000 But they can help you with the conference. And that's for me, super interesting thing. 06:56.000 --> 07:00.000 So the most important part probably, how do you find volunteer opportunities? 07:01.000 --> 07:10.000 Some are obvious, but for example, this one is not so obvious. I was reading the web room called for participation for the software performance. 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 It was in the software performance and I was thinking, maybe it should send it all there. 07:15.000 --> 07:22.000 And then just by reading down I found, oh, they are asking for volunteers for the web room. I can do that. 07:22.000 --> 07:25.000 So, and they actually told you, you can send us an email. 07:26.000 --> 07:31.000 Just send an email, send an email, they accepted me, oh, we're very happy to have you. 07:32.000 --> 07:39.000 And then I also ask other people from my company to volunteer and ask to raise volunteering and Brian and other colleagues also volunteering. 07:40.000 --> 07:48.000 So it was a very easy way to actually participate in the bedroom without applying to have your own bedroom, which is sometimes difficult to get your own bedroom. 07:48.000 --> 07:54.000 And it's a commitment as well, but just helping the day of the conference, it's easy for us. 07:55.000 --> 08:01.000 It is a help because initially it's only two managers in the room, so they really need more people. 08:02.000 --> 08:07.000 So if you see anything like that, just give you an volunteer, reach out. People are very open to it. 08:08.000 --> 08:17.000 Another thing that you can do is follow people who are organizing for managers for the web rooms on social and the Fedivers in this case, Arlin. 08:18.000 --> 08:23.000 The community bedroom was actually asking for volunteers and even telling, I need door management and timekeeper. 08:24.000 --> 08:29.000 So if you are into that, you can actually reach out to him and say, hey, I'm a very level for that. 08:30.000 --> 08:38.000 So that's another way you can find opportunities that it requires following the people who organize that sometimes you are connected already. 08:39.000 --> 08:43.000 So it's not too difficult. And the main way to do it is the call for volunteers. 08:43.000 --> 08:50.000 Usually, first in public, it's a little bit closer to the event. So this year, they published in the 27th. 08:51.000 --> 08:57.000 And there is a website there, so there is a lot of documentation, so you know, how is it volunteering? What do I have to do? 08:58.000 --> 09:02.000 Where do I have to go? They have a matrix, so you can also go in there and chat. 09:03.000 --> 09:08.000 And there is this list of tasks that you can actually say, okay, I'm going to volunteer building up Friday afternoon. 09:08.000 --> 09:14.000 I'm going to volunteer Monday and loading the bans or I'm going to volunteer for a couple of hours, 09:15.000 --> 09:22.000 I'm going to volunteer at the infotainee, I'm going to volunteer at the club room, so there's all sort of things. 09:23.000 --> 09:27.000 If you're, if you're going to try public speaking, for example, for routing is a nice thing. 09:28.000 --> 09:33.000 So depending on what you like, you can choose your timings, if you cannot make it, you go there and check it. 09:33.000 --> 09:40.000 So it's really, very easy to do, and I will recommend you do that. And it's a great way to meet people. 09:41.000 --> 09:50.000 And not do not only believe me, you can actually have it on blog post, for example, and it just published this year, a very nice blog post, 09:50.000 --> 09:56.000 on what, why she volunteers and what she gets out of it, and actually the tips are really, very interesting, 09:56.000 --> 10:02.000 if you're, if it's your first time at first, they're more volunteering. So I found it, yeah, work comfortable too, 10:02.000 --> 10:09.000 being a water bottle and something like, because sometimes you don't have time to go for, to the food racks and get some food, 10:09.000 --> 10:16.000 and make sure you have everything available. So maybe start with, yeah, short shift, short ass. 10:16.000 --> 10:20.000 So you can always see if you like it or not and how it went. 10:21.000 --> 10:30.000 So this is probably the final thing. Don't just attend for them, how make it happen, choose the tasks that you like, maybe, 10:30.000 --> 10:37.000 couple hour tasks, and see you there if you're volunteering, you might find me there, or other volunteers. 10:37.000 --> 10:41.000 So that's probably it for me. Thank you. 10:41.000 --> 10:51.000 Thank you. Thank you. 10:51.000 --> 10:57.000 Thank you. 10:57.000 --> 11:13.000 Is it too late to bring you to this session? Sorry. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 Is it too late to bring you to this session? 11:16.000 --> 11:17.000 To register. 11:17.000 --> 11:21.000 To volunteer. Yeah, you can go to website and volunteer still for tasks in the afternoon. 11:21.000 --> 11:31.000 You'll actually see, maybe I can show you if we have time. You'll see the tasks already. 11:31.000 --> 11:39.000 The tasks are here. So you'll actually see the ones that are already full, but you'll find that some of them have one people out of two. 11:39.000 --> 11:46.000 The ones in red still need people. So you will still find that already you can volunteer for this afternoon. 11:46.000 --> 11:52.000 And for the teardown, you can always show up there. They'll give you an orange or an orange t-shirt in the K-building. 11:52.000 --> 11:58.000 And you can start because they need so many volunteers for teardown that I don't think they will tell you no at any time. 11:58.000 --> 12:06.000 They need to have volunteers in all the buildings to leave the university as it was, so they need to pick up all the staff, put them in two bands. 12:06.000 --> 12:14.000 So there's a lot of work in the afternoon today until evening, so anyone who can join that will be amazing. 12:16.000 --> 12:22.000 Any other questions? 12:28.000 --> 12:34.000 So thank you very much. Special thanks to the Lord.