[[!meta title="IRC volunteer"]]

# 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) Copy other talk-related items to the talk's Etherpad
- (optional) Copy other conference-related items to the conference Etherpad
- (optional) Answer conference-related questions
- (optional) Announce talks and Q&A sessions

The IRC conversations can be pretty fast and difficult to follow. Your
help in copying questions and other important points to the Etherpad
will be much appreciated by hosts, speakers, and other participants.

# 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.

The conversation might be too fast to keep track of, especially if the
channel for a track has overlapping discussions. Feel free to ask if
people have any more questions for a particular speaker. You can also
encourage people to use conventions like starting their questions with
Q: or Q-talkid:.

## Copying other talk-related items

IRC participants might share interesting observations, links, or
feedback. Please feel free to copy them into the Etherpad for future
reference.

For Q&A sessions done over IRC, it would also be helpful to copy the
answers to the Etherpad.

# In case of...

- Incidents: If someone isn't keeping
  [[guidelines for conduct|conduct]] in mind, let us know in
  `#emacsconf-org` and we'll figure out how to deal with the
  situation.

# After the conference

We'll review the chat logs and add anything that might have been
missed to the Etherpad before archiving it onto the talk page. Thank
you!

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