On Monday 05 April 2004 15:17, Kristie Carter wrote: > Attached is a "rough" draft of positions needed. (outline taken from an > internet source...some of the verbiage was in keeping with what we are > doing, so it's still in the body of text). If you think of more jobs, > just jot them down. I'll come up with an excel sheet to log the jobs > and parties interested. > > **Now to get someone interested in helping. What are we offering them? > Besides the T-shirt and some snacks from the Con. Suite.
We can offer a discount on registration if they volunteer for enough hours, and there's also the possibility that they'll get to meet the guests or just plain see behind the scenes in the con. There's also little things like buttons, badge ribbons, stickers, etc. There's a whole psychology: stuff that's ONLY available to volunteers is inherently cooler than stuff that's available to everybody. Doesn't really matter what the stuff is, as long as it's shiny and cool... > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On a related side note I just wanted to mention this.. > > *One of the Penguicon members came up with an excellent point, when I > was discussing volenteering at one of their meetings. She gave me > plenty of options for helping, that would also maximize my day at the > convention, since I still would be a paying guest. I think this is a > great idea to discuss with potential helpers assigned to you, when we > start locking them into positions. You're volunteer coordinator, right? Ever been to anything like concomcon? http://www.swoc.org/ccubed/ > Also we should keep in mind the people we are using, and the things > that drew them to the con in the first place. This is just an fyi that > we'll be cutting into their con time when they are helping us, so until > the programming is done you might gain or loose the helpers you need. I know. > Hopefully they will have so much fun doing it this year, that they will > want to come back...maybe even bring a friend or two. Yup. :) > Some other ideas: > > Interactive volunteer job site under the volunteer board: vBulletin We've pondered a volunteer mailing list even... > We could even have a Margarita Madness hour... Saw it on another site > for a convention. > http://www.partymachines.com/margarita_machine_rental.htm The con itself doesn't have permission from the hotel to distribute alcohol. Legal things intervene, apparently. (The hotel has a liquor license, and could set up a cash bar, but that's not the same thing...) > Liked this ADOBE volunteer sign up form, maybe our version can be > attached to the volunteer link. The paper trail will help create a > placement board. There should be a whole volunteer page, which the gopher herder is in charge of... Rob
