#epf 2022

[europodfriends]

Do you like podfic?

Do you like hanging out with other fans?

Do you have time this October, on the weekend of the 14th-16th?

Then have I got the event for you!

Europodfriends is a Europe-based meetup in October for podfic readers, podfic listeners, the podfic curious, and all other podfic lovers! Though we are based in Europe, we welcome anyone who wants to join in, so long as you can handle our time zones! ;)

You would love to join us, but don't think you can afford the travel? Not to worry! This year, because of COVID, the event is happening entirely online! No travel needed except to grab your headphones and discord-enabled device! (And to the kitchen, for snacks.)

Interested and want to sign up? The actual sign-up link will follow in a reblog, so tumblr doesn't nuke this post from orbit!

And for everyone who likes more details, here you go:

EPF will run from early afternoon Friday the 14th to early afternoon Saturday the 16th, UTC+1.

If you can only make it to part of the event, you are still more than welcome!

EPF will happen entirely over a dedicated Discord server, for which you will get an invite shortly before the event.

The event will be largely text-and audio-based.

If you can only participate in the text portions or only the audio portions, you are still more than welcome!

There is unlikely to be continuous events - EPF is explicitly less of a convention and more of a meet-up, but there definitely will be some events:

We are planning an introductory round on Friday for everyone to get to know each other.

We are planning "Pitch 'n' Pod", in which you introduce a fic you would like to record, and other participants sign up to do voices. These can then be recorded live during the EPF weekend.

There will likely also be at least one rec fest, possibly themed.

Ideas for another event? Want to run a tutorial, game, lovefest? Get in touch! We would love to have you on board!

Any questions? Get in touch! We're reachable here, on twitter, Dreamwidth and via email (@ gmail dot com) under the same name @europodfriends!

As mentioned, sign-up link will follow immediately in a reblog, so go get signing up, folks! We're looking forward to seeing you there! 💙💛💙

[europodfriends]

Europodfriends 2022 - Online

well… Omicron happened, and the COVID situation has changed again. We’ve discussed it, and as it stands at the moment, we cannot in good conscience plan an in-person meeting in October. It might be safe to do so by then! But we have no way of knowing that now, and now is when we would need to be well on our way to planning an in-person meetup.

As such, we are instead looking to do an online meetup again, the way we did in 2020. We had great fun with that, and based on your feedback, so did you! We will need people during the event making sure the code of conduct is being followed, like we had last time, but we’ll be reaching out to you about that closer to the event itself. However, we’ll also be more reliant on events than we are during in-person meetups, and that's something we can absolutely dive right into thinking about! Is there an event - a game, a recfest, a watchfest, a tutorial, whatever it is - you’d like to run, or just participate in? Let us know in the comments on the Dreamwidth post, or brainstorm ideas with each other! Anon commenting is on, so you won’t need an account for commenting - we'd just like to keep all the ideas in one place for a better overview.

Just as a reminder, the virtual meetup will take place from the 14th to the 16th of October, 2022. As it currently stands, it will probably run primarily over discord. We have closed the survey for the in-person sign-up and will put up another sign-up sheet for the virtual meetup somewhat later in the year, since that will need less run-up time. For now - brainstorming time!

[europodfriends]

New mod & signups

Two bits of news at the start of the month!

First of all, we have a new mod! Please welcome Robin_Fai to the team! *\o/*

Second of all, sign-ups are now open! Please fill out this form to sign up to the event (as a reminder, it will run 14th - 16th October of this year) and feel free to share it around if you want to! Sign-ups will remain open until a week beforehand, and we will post another reminder shortly before that. Since it’s online this year, we don’t have a maximum number of participants. And for those of you from across various ponds: the event isn’t exclusive to Europeans, it just follows European time zones. ;) 

If you’ve got any ideas for events or activities for this year’s event then now would be a great time to start thinking about them. If you’ve got any questions about whether you think a particular item might work for EPF then please do get in touch with us to discuss!

We’re excited to hang out with everyone again this year! 

[europodfriends]

Europodfriends: Help wanted!

We need your help to organize this year’s online meetup! We’re looking for a third admin to help manage the workload, as otherwise we won’t be able to run the event this year, and both of us want to avoid that option. Get in touch with us by June 12th if you're interested! 

Here’s what being an admin means, in terms of work involved: 

Timing: 

Do EPF things for roughly 15-20 hours, spread between now and the meetup in October. 

Be part of the admin team on the weekend of the meetup (14th - 16th October)

Main tasks: 

Writing and sending emails

Writing and posting to social media

Finding discord mods, and coordinating with mods and event runners

Respond to anything needing admin intervention during the meetup (in theory, anything from harassment to reminding people to wrap up an event on time. In practice, it’s likely to be more of the latter than the former.)

Additionally:

Possibly some research (e.g. into remote recording options)

Possibly editing pre-existing documents (e.g. accessibility info) for readability etc. 

Coordinating and scheduling all of the above with your fellow admins (that’s us!)

None of this would be on Just You - we’ll all share these responsibilities! We just, well, need an extra pair of hands. 

Are you interested in helping us out? Do you have any questions? Please let us know! If we don't have a third admin by June 12th, we will unfortunately have to cancel this year’s meetup. 

(If you're interested in being a Discord moderator - which we will also need to be able to run the online meetup - we'll put out a call for mods closer to the meetup date.)