[boston-pig] Boston PyCon 2008 Bid call for Volunteers

[Jack Diederich]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:43:22PM -0500, Napoleone, Doug wrote:
> All,
>     Samuel Klein is working to put together a Bid for having PyCon be hosted
> in Boston for 2008/2009.
> The bids will be presented at PyCon07 this Febuary 23rd. We are looking for
> volunteers to help
> with some of the logistics of putting together a bid.
> 
> This includes contacting hotels to request information, and just making your
> voice heard.
> 
> Part of the bid requirements includes the following:
> 
> > Volunteers
> > 
> > Some parts of PyCon organization can be done remotely, but having local
> volunteers is vital to the conference's success. Volunteers can:
> > 
> >     * Explore locations before the conference.
> >     * Receive deliveries in the weeks before the conference.
> >     * Run the registration desk.
> >     * Help advertise the conference locally at schools, user groups.
> >     * Help prepare the conference rooms, wireless networking, badges,
> conference tote bags, etc.
> > 
> > Does your location have a pool of volunteer labour?
> 
> 
> We need to show that Boston has such a pool of people.
> 

Are you asking people to reply to the email?  If so, count me in. My
only qualifications are being local and lurking on PyCon-Organizers
but I'd be happy to do grunt work at a Boston conference.

Somewhat related: The Front Range Pythoneers (Colorado PIG) are
ogranizing a practice session for locals giving talks at the upcoming
PyCon.  Are any presenters interested in doing the same here?  At a
guess we have a bunch of local presenters (I'm doing "Writing your own
Python types in C").

-Jack