{"id":1300,"date":"2007-03-12T11:05:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T09:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/join-the-kde-event-coordination-task-force-now\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T09:05:40","slug":"join-the-kde-event-coordination-task-force-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/join-the-kde-event-coordination-task-force-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the KDE Event Coordination Task Force now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KDE is visiting a lot of events on a yearly basis. In most cases, the booth is staffed by<br \/>\n\t\tvolunteers. A successful event attendance depends on a number of factors, if those aren&#8217;t<br \/>\n\t\tconsidered, it might end in frustrated, or even burnt out contributors. But getting it right<br \/>\n\t\tis not just about &#8220;went good \/ bad&#8221;, there are various shades of grey. Having a look at past<br \/>\n\t\tevents, the most important factors seem to be in two groups, general considerations and<br \/>\nplanning<br \/>\n\t\tand per-event planning. Let&#8217;s see what those two are about:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n\t\t<strong>General<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> What events are there, when and where?<\/li>\n<li> Are there people who would like to represent KDE at this event?<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\tIs there material for events, such as demo hardware, demo data, flyers?\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\tIs there merchandising material and goodies available? Where can that be<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tgotten from? What material is there? Can we have special stuff made?\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n\t\t<strong>Per Event<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> How do I get the boothmaterial?<\/li>\n<li> What do I need to know to run a booth?<\/li>\n<li> How can I get merchandising material? What do I need to know to handle it?<\/li>\n<li> What event-specific planning is required?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p \/>\n\t\tParts of those problems have solutions already. For example, we know who can get us<br \/>\nmerchandising<br \/>\n\t\tmaterial, we have some booth material in the form of the boothbox. The<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadkde.org\">SpreadKDE<\/a> team is<br \/>\n\t\tworking on a module for the SpeadKDE platform to make planning easier. What we&#8217;re really<br \/>\nlacking is<br \/>\n\t\tcool stuff, such as well-designed merchandising materials. Doing an event should be more or<br \/>\nless<br \/>\n\t\ta routine task, so we can concentrate on the fun stuff and on what exactly we want to show.<br \/>\nSo<br \/>\n\t\tlet&#8217;s try to get the organisation in place so that event planning and attending is an easy<br \/>\nand<br \/>\n\t\tfun task.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n\t\tSo to tackle this, we&#8217;re putting together the KDE Event Coordination Task Force (KECTF).<br \/>\n\t\tThis group of people will<br \/>\n\t\tthink about how to solve all those issues (Most of them are fun to deal with for the right<br \/>\npeople!).<br \/>\n\t\tIf you want to be part of it, if you&#8217;ve input on those issues, or just would like to design<br \/>\na flyer,<br \/>\n\t\ta t-shirt, &#8230;, subscribe to the<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mail.kde.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/kde-events\">kde-events<\/a> mailinglist now<br \/>\nand<br \/>\n\t\tstart your carreer as part of the Event Coordination Task Force today!<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KDE is visiting a lot of events on a yearly basis. In most cases, the booth is staffed by volunteers. A successful event attendance depends on a number of factors, if those aren&#8217;t considered, it might end in frustrated, or even burnt out contributors. But getting it right is not just about &#8220;went good \/&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/join-the-kde-event-coordination-task-force-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Join the KDE Event Coordination Task Force now!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}