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BIL 2011 - Organizers

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BIL 2011 - Start here Organizers and Volunteers

IMPORTANT

There is a Volunteer meeting on Friday at 4 ish p.m. at location TBD, somewhere on the Queen Mary, find Simone. Attendance is not mandatory, but recommended. Directions coming soon.

The teams are ordered roughly by their priority, and the number of unfilled dots shows how many positions we have for that team. If you'd like to be on a team,

please put your name on the list and e mail SimoneSyed/Gmail.

Day of, Volunteers will be meeting at 8:30 a.m. in the main conference room. Leads are the people that will coordinate their individual teams.

Be a Volunteer! (with email/provider)	Email (/=@, .com=default)	What can you do?	When are you available?
Cody Marx Bailey is an advocate and leader in open source, free culture and distributed organizations. His focus on pragmatic approaches to solutions has lead to the creation of The Creative Space, the first coworking office in Texas. He is also a cofounder of the BIL Conference, an egalitarian run unconference held in Long Beach, CA. More recently, he has honed his sense of management and development towards entrepreneurship and culture. His involvement with the revitalization of Downtown Bryan, TX has been instrumental in the economic, cultural and professional development. He has over a decade and a half of web development and electronic collaboration experience. Cody Marx Bailey began his career working for VA Linux Systems while in High School in South Texas. In his spare time, he is an avid gardener, learner and music producer. Alexis Bright likes to call him "The Godfather of BIL."	superphly/gmail	Websites	planning, during BIL
Simone Syed Double fisted gun toting vixen. Let it be known!	simonesyed/gmail	Nerd wrangling, fundraising, venue	planning, during
Alexis Bright This is Alexis' 3rd BIL. She recently accepted a part time position with Voxer.com as office manager to support her learning addiction. She enjoys learning about the effects of trauma and how to treat it, willpower, self-compassion, and meditation. Alexis' long-term goal is to become a licensed psychotherapist. Currently she has a part-time psychotherapy internship working with trauma survivors. Her hobbies include training for the Tough Mudder run, coordinating events for friends, and spending time with loved ones. She is also a co-founder of BIL, a founding member of Hike the Geek and lover of bacon. She would like to thank attendee Matt Knopp for being her sounding board, transporter, sanity check, personal sponsor and wonderful boyfriend.	lexbright/gmail	Morale, GapMinder	planning, during
Raines Cohen	raines/mac	SF liaison, outreach
Joseph Jackson	josephjackson/gmail	Fundraising, outreach
Reichart Von Wolfsheild Master of Ceremonies	reichart/gmail	Fold a Cherry stem without my hands.	Planning, during, and sometimes, when you least expect it.
Mark Weinberg is a third year BILder and a devoted proponent of all things BIL. At home Mark is a devoted Sales Liaison in the medical sector and a supporter of dance music, if by dancing at or by promoting events. His interests include NL Cash Hold'em, Sphynx cats, enjoying music and sailing. Having lived in two Buddhist countries has lead to his interest in that path and he focuses on compassionate care of beings. That being said meat is a wonderfully tasty murder. Mark holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies (Japanese) from the University of Arizona.	weinmark/gmail	Donation Solicitation at the event, Being Useful while Connecting PPL/Solutions	During!

Dean G spent 13 years of his life behind an audio mixer and field radio engineer. He is volunteering to manage whatever Simone and other volunteers can wrangle in terms of A/V equipment, including donating the use of some of his own equipment. He has been a Telecommunications Network Consultant, and occasionally partnered with EnVision Wireless (EVWI.com). He will occasionally mix audio, for special events, conventions, and live broadcasts. He was the lead A/V volunteer for BIL 2009. He did an amazing job of making things go. He is recently engaged and thrilled about it! Oh, and he happily accepts gifts of 1 or 2 gig PC3200 400 Mhz memory chips to upgrade aging computers. Same with internal or external hard drives and enclosures.	dogwin / gmail	Audio, video, making 1's and zeros go where I tell them	Before, during and about 15 seconds after.
Bleys is a multi-purpose, multi-dimensional, pan-interfacial sophont who spent much of his youth hiding in libraries, planning to take over the world. The rest he spent out in the open, organizing leadership conferences, volunteering for youth groups, trying to hide the remains of rotten durians, and perpetrating random acts of kindness. You know those "you must be this tall to ride" signs? Well the ride of me has one of those. The only difference is that I scratched out tall, replaced it with clever, and stuck a copy of Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question" over the height bar. Basically, if you can wrap your head around that story and enjoy it then you're probably my sort of person. Most of what I do has something to do with science and technology. I love the promise of technology, I'm deeply aware of the risks, and I'm in awe of our dependence on it now just to exist. For BIL, I'm engaged in bit-wrangling and may also be involved in photon-farming and sapience-mongering. I've studied rationalism, I can give you the gist of the world's religions, I'm intimately familiar with many global existential risk vectors, and I have the ideals of a person who expects all of humanity to one day be something much greater. I live on the hope that you will not face death or despair. Along that line, I enjoy sharing my negative utilitarian leanings and would be charmed to have you as a part of my living solar system. There's a small chance I know something about computers and data analysis, but I didn't tell you that. Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude, incipe.		planning / web / wrangling / photos	a 5th of every 13th minute
Kirez Reynolds	gorillasoph/gmail	A/V assistant, door minder, gopher, heavy lifting,	during

Jobs that need doing:

Geeks and Nerds - The nerds coordinate all the technology at BIL, things like internet, audio/visual, streaming media, and so on.
Door Minders - During the event we need a volunteer for each room to help things flow smoothly. This includes making sure the rooms don't overfill and coordinating flow.
Time Lord - The Time Lord is to help the speakers keep track of time to ensure that everyone gets to speak. There are 3 areas to give talks. We ideally would like 2-3 shifts per room per day.
A/V Guys -We'll need help running the A/V equipment, especially in the main room. If you have experience with this PLEASE add your name here. (dean,, Ross)
Media Mavens - The Media Mavens help disseminate the content being produced at BIL. This consists of assisting the various media organizations (new and old) by coordinating speaker interviews, internet access, positioning, and so on.
Messengers (don't kill them) - The Messengers coordinate the real-time communications during the conference, managing the blog, wiki, and twitter accounts. They take information from the various teams and distribute it to the other participants. This team will primarily use the backchannel twitter accounts @bilorg and @bilvol.
Speaker Wrangler - The Speaker Wranglers are the point communication people with the speakers. They function as speaker check in for the speakers to sign in with a cell-phone number and name in case changes need to be made mid conference. They help the speakers get in touch with the a/v person that is running the slide technology that day. The lead wrangler will create a new page that has the pictures of the speaker wranglers up there so speakers will know who to find to get to their talks.
Photographers - Anyone can volunteer to be a photographer. We'd ideally like a couple of fixed volunteers so that we are sure to get some great photos of everything. If you have a flickr account, upload your photos to flicker, and tag them #bil2011 or #bilconference2011 and label them creative commons so we can use them for future BILs.
Totipotent Team - The Totipotent Team is available to help out on every single task listed above and then some. Please be careful about putting your name on this list you WILL be asked to do a A LOT! (Simone Syed, Alexis Bright, Reichart, Mark Weinberg)

Comments (5)

Raines, Cody told me it would be best to contact you when coming into town about building publicity. I work and know how CVB's operate and they would not only want an in to marketing this event if they have'nt already but would do it with additional benfits. I am going to try and set up a meeting with their marketing department tomorrow, March 3rd. If you if any advice or direction to give me on what you want from them please let me know. Here is there website ......visitlongbeach.com CIAO!

Yay Alex Rochestie!! Do you have a twitter feed?

yes i do. for the new company TV Free's is www.twitter.com/tvfreemedia and my personal account is www.twitter.com/AROC_ Warning: not a huge social butterfly but definitely will be updating those accounts with broadcasts like BIL's this weekend.