Hello, we (Vlado Moravec in cc: and I) are looking for chairmen for the conference. The chairmen play a key role (apart from the presenters of course) in a smoothly running conference talks. The main responsibilities are making sure that: * talks start and end in time (especially keeping some time aside for the speakers to set up their laptops and the audience change flow; this includes notifying the speakers about time limits during the talks). * water is available for all speakers * help the speaker setting up their nootebooks with projector, power plug and network * ventilate room after each talk (important) * schedule changes are announced properly * people are not disturbing the lectures by getting in after talk starts (grace period 5 or 10 minutes, depending on the length of the talk) and don't allow people in if room is full This aside, you can enjoy the lectures as anybody else with the great bonus that even if the room is full, you are guaranteed to get in. :) Don't hesitate, uncle (or aunt?) Geeko needs you - drop me or Vlado a line when you could chair a room and which one you'd prefer! Thanks! Cheers Petr p.s.: you can also add yourself to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Teams#Rooms_.28Chairmen.29, but email notification is still be preferred (we'll need to contact you). -- Petr Cerny Mozilla/OpenSSH maintainer for SUSE Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org