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# Responsibilities

- Keep an eye on the IRC channel for your track and copy questions to
  the relevant Etherpad so that hosts and speakers can easily find
  them.
- (optional) Answer conference-related questions
- (optional) Announce talks and Q&A sessions.

# Preparation

If you'd like to announce talks and Q&A sessions, we can share a pad
with announcements that you can copy and paste.

If you would like to help set the channel topic or moderate the
channel, please ask one of the main organizers (bandali, zaeph, or
sachac) to add you as a channel operator.

# Process

## Copying questions

Open `#emacsconf-gen` and/or `#emacsconf-dev` depending on your shift
and your ability to keep track of multiple things at the same time.

In another window, open the Etherpad for the relevant talk(s). You can
find pad URLs on the talk page or in the talk announcement that is
also posted on IRC.

When you notice a question posted in IRC, reply to the person and say
that you'll copy the question into the relevant pad. If you're using
ERC or another programmable IRC client, you may want to make a command
that simplifies that process.

Copy the question to the bottom of the question list of the relevant
pad and add the person's nick after it in parentheses. Please keep it
as a top-level item instead of nesting it under something else. You
can reword the question for clarity if needed.

## Announcing talks and Q&A sessions

At the indicated time, paste the announcement into the relevant
channel. (This might be automated if we get around to it.)

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