Category Archives: Gap Year

Gap Year, Volunteering

What Is Possible

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Hey WisCon,

You may have noticed a call going out urgently and repeatedly a couple of weeks ago, for three ConCom Co-Chairs. This call failed, and I believe this can make WisCon stronger. We now have the opportunity to staff for a WisCONline in 2025 (with gratitude to the 2020 leadership for paving the way, including making that delightful portmanteau.) We won’t know for sure unless we get confirmed staff by October 2nd.

We’ve restructured the ConCom into three new Committees, which have been chaired in the last two weeks, but don’t worry! There’s still lots you may be needed for! The roles that are needed as of this posting before we can hold a WisCONline in 2025 are:

Communications:

  • AppDev lead (1-2), limited training
  • Server Migration working group (needs 1 to launch), experience needed, temporary group
Board:
  • SF3 Treasurer, training available
Chairs:
  • Personnel Co-Chair, training available
  • Comms Co-Chair, training available
  • Fundraising (Co-)Chair(s) (new), training being researched
Operations & Hospitality:
  • Access Co-Leads, training available
  • Discord Con Lead, training available
  • Registration Pre-Con Lead, training available
  • GoH Team Lead (new), guidance being assembled
All current open roles are listed here: https://wiscon.net/volunteer/concom/

Let’s discover what kind of WisCon we can build together.

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Learn More about SF^3, August 12th, 6:30 p.m. central time

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If you or a friend were ever curious about how SF³ (the organization that runs WisCon) works, this is the event for you! We’ll review the current structure of SF³, base volunteer expectations, where the organization is at in Strategic Planning and volunteer recruitment, and what it will take to hold WisCon in 2025!

This orientation is open to anyone in the WisCon community, or interested in the WisCon community, whether or not they’re on Basecamp, so please invite a friend! There will be a mention of how to volunteer, but no pressure to join now.

The meeting will be held online (using the Fairmeeting tool) on August 12th at 6:30 p.m., central time.

https://fairmeeting.net/SF%5E3Orientation

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Volunteers needed!

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We need 3+ volunteers to form a Communications Server Migration Working Group.  Duties include: find a suitable cloud server and work with the current physical server owner to migrate our data and video to the new server. This temporary working group will report to the Gap Planning committee, which meets twice monthly. Prior service migration experience helpful. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Server Migration Working Group) for more information.

 

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Disability Audit

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WisCon is conducting a Disability Justice Audit. We would like to know about everyone’s experiences regarding accessibility, disability, and justice at WisCon. If you’ve ever attended WisCon, in any capacity, please fill out this survey by July 31. If you’re short on spoons or time, we ask that you focus on the questions marked with an asterisk (*). Your answers will help us determine the direction of future programming and accommodations at WisCon.

The Disability Justice Audit committee is not requesting any personally identifying information in this survey. We will anonymize info or quotes from survey results if presenting them in our audit conclusions.

The survey is here: https://forms.gle/9XmZbKxRH8DU53KBA

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WisCon Gap Year Discord Launched

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Over Memorial Day weekend, we launched our gap year Discord server — a place for all WisCon loving folks to chat, organize and attend virtual events, and make friends. This server will be available all year long, not just for a weekend.

To join, fill out this form and we’ll send you an invite link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZJJPVPS6FcFGvCUvZn5CFtd9lOJ5o89IvYo-fVbgjpA3Dgg/viewform

If you have any questions, email discord@wiscon.sf3.org. We hope to see you soon!