All right, so time for next talk. We have Emma Vals, who is going to software developer
and she's going to present to you why she volunteers at Phosem and why you should too.
Thanks, I'm sorry.
Who's first was ever volunteer at Phosem in any way here.
Praise your hand.
Oh, that's quite a lot. Of course, the orange t-shirts for sure.
So the inspiration for this talk is because I'm a developer advocate and I go around events.
And they always ask me how is Phosem and I say, I love it. I say, would you favorite part, volunteering?
And then I get a lot of people ask me, how do you do that? Is it possible? Yes, it's possible.
That is not difficult and I try to explain why, based on my own experience of course.
As I said, I'm a developer advocate, I'm based in Barcelona.
I'm a community community builder. I love organizing events, meetups, small conferences, not huge Phosem, like conferences.
And for me, this conference is inspiration because it's a huge community driven conference.
And yes, I'll try to, well, be through my experience.
So the first time I volunteered at Phosem, I've been coming before 24.
And I didn't have the best of experiences and so maybe you should volunteer.
And that's actually changed my whole experience at Phosem. I was able to meet people and enjoy it a lot.
So what I did in 24, I started putting, I hope you've seen all these brown papers on the walls.
And I volunteered to do that. Why are they doing this?
So they actually explain us, there is someone who actually manages the true of volunteers because you're new, new volunteering.
And they told us why, because you have all these people who stick, put stickers on the walls and everything.
And it's easier to actually remove the papers. So the walls are pretty clean, very easily. Otherwise, you would have to spend hours cleaning the walls.
So it was like, that's, I've never done that in any band. And it's actually very interesting thing to do.
I also help unloading tracks, setting up rooms, like the big room there.
So I learned a little bit how they worked. And it's actually, you just get to what to do with someone who knows how to do it.
So it's not very, it's not scary. You're in the band. I went to the info desk selling t-shirts. I chose a very nice shift Sunday. It's not too busy.
But I was able to speak to people that were volunteering with me. So it was really nice to meet people.
And also help you help people navigate first them if they are trying to find a room or anything you can help them.
And then there are probably the nicest part. I didn't sign up for it. But I was in the cave building Sunday afternoon. I saw that 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. So you actually get to have dinner, some pizzas and everything with the other volunteers. And it's a really nice thing to do.
So for me, it was a great experience. And I said from now on, I'm going to volunteer always. Last year I was not able to because I had some issues with my leg.
But this year I volunteered at the software performance dev room. It's another way you can volunteer. You can help manage the rooms. I didn't apply for a dev room, but I'll explain later how I got into helping the managers of the dev room.
So you'll be asking, what's in it for you? So I guess it's different for everyone. But for me, for example, the first year I had I heard very inspiring stories from people who were putting brown paper in the woods with me.
I had a couple of students who actually were super excited to be at Phosden. They didn't have anywhere to sleep even. So they were sleeping in the floors here. You'll be. So for me, it reminded me of when I was young. I said, wow, this is what I should have done when I was young.
So I never appeared 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.
And then someone comes by and it's a coworker of him and he says, hey, I wanted to introduce you to this is a coworker of my Pablo. He lives in Barcelona. 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.
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.
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.
I'm an organizer of smaller conferences, but I know the people who volunteer the day of the event are very necessary. 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.
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, or the blue t-shirts, which are the debroom manager.
So it's also nice to have this as a reminder that you have that that falls them happen.
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.
It's a massive number of attendees. There is a network that is streaming everything is happening.
The volunteers are almost self-organized. You go to website and it's signed up to volunteer.
So for me, that was pretty impressive. Of course, there is a difference within the court team who actually organizes during the year. And the one-time volunteers find this.
It's a very, for me, 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.
And it's really interesting how this happens. 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.
And that's a 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, but they can help you with the conference.
That's for me, super interesting thing. So most important part probably, how do you find volunteering opportunities?
Some are obvious, but for example, this one is not so obvious.
I was reading the webroom called for participation for the software performance, into software performance, and I was thinking, maybe it should send it all there.
And then just by reading down, I found, oh, they are asking for volunteers for the webroom.
I can do that. So, and they actually told you, you can send us an email.
Just send an email, send an email, they accepted me, oh, we're very happy to have you.
And then I also ask other people from my company to volunteer, and ask for this volunteering, and Brian, and other colleagues also volunteering.
So it was a very easy way to actually participate in a bedroom without applying to have your own bedroom, which is sometimes difficult to get around that room.
And it's a commitment as well, but just helping the day of the conference, it's easy for us.
And it is a help because initially it's only two managers in the room, so they really need more people.
So if you see anything like that, just, and if you want to volunteer, reach out, people are very open to it.
So another thing that you can do is follow people who are organizing farm managers for the webrooms on social and the Fedivers, in this case, Arlin.
From the community bedroom, was actually asking for volunteers, and even telling, I need door management and timekeeper.
So if you are into that, you can actually reach out to him and say, hey, I'm a very level for that.
So that's another way you can find opportunities that it requires following the people who organize, that sometimes you are connected already.
So it's not too difficult. And the main way to do it is the call for volunteers.
Usually, first in public, it's a little bit closer to the event. So this year, they published in the 27th.
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? Where do I have to go? They have a matrix, so you can also go in there and chat.
And there is this list of tasks that you can actually say, okay, I'm going to volunteer building up Friday afternoon.
I'm going to volunteer Monday and loading the bans, or I'm going to volunteer for a couple of hours, for adding a devism.
I'm going to volunteer at the infodays, selling t-shirts. I'm going to volunteer at the program.
So there's all sort of things. If you're, if you're going to try public speaking, for example, for adding is a nice thing.
So depending on what you like, you can choose your timings. If you cannot make it, you go there and check it.
So it's really, very easy to do, and I will recommend you do that.
And it's a great way to meet people. And not do not only believe me, you can actually have it on blog post.
For example, I did just publish this year a very nice blog post on what why she volunteers and what she gets out of it.
And actually the tips are really, very interesting is your first time at first, they're more volunteering.
So I found it, yeah, work of tools, being a water bottle, and something like, because sometimes you don't have time to go for, to the food, relax and get some food.
And make sure you have everything available. So maybe start with, yeah, short shift, short ass.
So you can always see if you like it or not, and how it went.
So this is probably the final thing. Don't just attend for them. How make it happen?
Choose the tasks that you like, maybe a couple hour tasks.
And see you there if you're volunteering, you might find me there or other volunteers.
So that's probably it for me. Thank you.
This is another slide.
We're going to come in.
Looks like you can take a question.
So if you want more stuff.
Is it too late to bring you to this session?
Sorry.
Is it too late to volunteer to this session?
To register.
To volunteer.
To go to website and volunteer still for tasks in the afternoon.
You'll actually see, maybe I can show you.
If we have time, you'll see the tasks already.
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.
The ones in red still need people.
So you will still find that already you can volunteer for this afternoon.
You can always show up there.
They'll give you an orange, an orange t-shirt in the K-building.
And you can start because they need so many volunteers for teardown that I don't think they will tell you know at any time.
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.
So there's a lot of work in the afternoon today until evening.
So anyone who can join that will be amazing.
Any other questions?
So.
So thank you very much.
Special thanks to the Lord.