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HowToParticipate

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Getting Involved

 

KinkForAll is a participant-driven event. It relies on large groups of loosely organized people to work together in a coordinated, highly communicative fashion. This keeps costs low and value high.

 

This page discusses some of the ways you can get involved. Feel free to do as much or as little as you can or want, but please remember TheRulesOfKinkForAll:

 

Attendees must give a talk or a presentation, help with one, or otherwise volunteer/contribute in some way to support the event.

 

Getting started before the event

To get started, create a wiki account, add your name to registration page of the event(s) you hope to attend, then join the KinkForAll Mailing List, and introduce yourself.

 

You may choose to follow us onTwitter (and Identi.ca) or FetLife. Also, here are notes on using this wiki.

 

What are some ways I can help?

 

Everything that happens to make a KinkForAll happen is a result of people participating with their time and their own resources. These activities range widely:

 

  • bringing food,
  • leading sessions,
  • publicizing and advocating the event to friends,
  • donating money,
  • bringing needed items to the event itself,
  • handling logistics before the event,
  • putting up signage,
  • and the list goes on….

 

Look for a Needs list beneath the sign up table of the event you are interested in helping out with to get some ideas of what items are needed the most. (A list of upcoming events is on the FrontPage.)

 

Regardless of whether or not an item is listed on the needs list, you are encouraged to bring whatever you think will be helpful for yourself or others. It helps if you let people know what you are planning to bring ahead of time. To do this, list what you are bringing on the Inventory page for your event. (For example, KinkForAllNewYorkCityInventory or KinkForAllWashingtonDCInventory.) Listing your equipment publicly helps other people determine what may be missing and what they, themselves, can also bring.

 

How do I go about leading a session?

 

When you arrive at a KinkForAll event, there will be a large poster board or other signage called a Schedule Grid. This grid lists all the time slots per session location. Nearby, there will also be a pile of sticky/post-it notes and pens or markers.

 

To lead a session, write your session topic and your chosen name on a post-it note and then stick it into a free session slot on the schedule grid.

 

Be courteous, and do not pull other people's session topics off the grid if there are no more available session slots. Also, remember TheRulesOfKinkForAll, briefly paraphrased here:

 

  • You have 20 minutes for your session. This includes everything from start to finish. A timekeeper will provide you with one warning as you approach the end of your session slot when there are 3 minutes remaining.
  • At busy events, give only one presentation, and use only a single 20 minute slot.
  • Do not ask others to reserve a slot for you. Arriving early increases the likelihood that you will get a slot on the schedule grid.
  • Promotion of specific companies, products, or organizations is discouraged. You can certainly mention such things, but remember that KinkForAll events are a non-commercial, non-promotional space.

 

So what can I present?

 

  • First off, you can present. You do not need to be an expert on your topic; this is your opportunity to share with others, even and perhaps especially if you have never led a session like it before!
  • You are welcome to present on any topic with any relation to sexuality or gender. Your topic does not need to be directly related, but you should find some way to connect the dots to the theme of KinkForAll events: sexuality, gender, sexual freedom, and sexual diversity.
  • Feel free to be challenging, controversial, spontaneous, and authentic. You do not need to come specifically well-prepared, and you are encouraged to discuss your passions passionately.
  • Different formats are encouraged. You could make your session a short lecture, a poetry reading, a facilitated discussion, a multi-media presentation, or sharing an experience.
  • Keep it simple; don't try to get too elaborate because the the time limit simply does not accommodate an extended demonstration of a complex technique.

 

 

Other ways to show your support

 

  • Send thank you emails to the (public) discussion list.
  • Edit and improve the wiki!
  • Provide feedback about the event. Attendees and (Un)organizers: What worked? What didn't work? What could be better (and how)?
  • Write blog posts, share your photos, slides, video, and other media (and don't forget to use the appropriate tag for the event).
  • Help with the LostAndFound.
  • Organize a local KinkForAll.

 

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