• Fundraising Chair

Follow templates to set up new volunteers with their accounts, or remove outgoing volunteers.  Time commitment 3-4 hours per week as we approach WisCon, dropping to fewer afterwards. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Accounts member) for more information.

 

If you have experience with server infrastructure, we’d love your help with our server migration project. You’d build or practice your LAMP stack skills & knowledge. This 1-2 hour/week position can last until the end of the project or can be a longer-term role, depending our your availability and interest. If this might be a good match, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: IT volunteer).

 

You’ll organize meetings and tasks and get team members engaged so that team members can update the website. In the process, you’ll refresh or build new WordPress know-how. Expect to start at 3-5 hours per week and drop off to about 1-2 hours a week in this position. If curious, contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Website Team Lead).

 

Have some WordPress skills you don’t want to get rusty, or want to build? Ask about joining our Website work sessions to continue to update the text, formatting, and structure of the WisCon website as a team. Starting at 3-5 hours per week and dropping off to about 1 hour per week.  For more info, contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Website Team).

 

Want a role that comes with surprises and new challenges? The Access Lead makes WisCon accessible and welcoming by being responsive to attendee requests. In addition to keeping tabs on Closed Captioning and Alt Text efforts, you’d remain available and flexible to meet some unpredicted needs using WisCon resources. Please email personnel@sf3.org (subject: Access Lead) if you want to know more.

 

Want to coordinate an essential service and ease the load of organizers? Pick up Online Con Team’s current efforts to hire Closed Captions transcribers to help make WisCONline 2025 accessible and welcoming. The process is starting, we just need someone to train and go through the steps! Please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Access Team Member) for more info.

 

Help choose our next Guest of Honor! Our process involves getting input of staff each year. As Guest of Honor Lead, you’ll also make sure each guest has a place on the program and coordinate liaisons as needed. Learn more by contacting personnel@sf3.org (subject: GoH Lead).

 

Want to volunteer at your own pace for an hour or two a week? You’ll enhance the security of WisCon accounts by updating passwords, then notify those who use the accounts of the password change. For more information, contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Password Manager).

What really makes a convention sing? Its programming! In this role, you’d get to practice coordinating the grid to ensure that no scheduling conflicts occur and practice communicating with various participants. You’d then step up into the Chair role in June, tracking team progress and calling meetings starting in late fall.  To learn more, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Apprentice Programming Chair).

Build your leadership skills and spread the word about WisCon! As Apprentice Communications Chair you’d get to practice coordinating with other chairs and the Communications Team to transmit the latest WisCon news via its website, social media, and newsletters. You’d then step up into the Chair role after this WisCon, when volume is relatively low. Time commitment is about 5 hours each month. To learn more, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Apprentice Comms Chair).

You could grease the gears for your fellow volunteers! With focus on Access, Affordability, the Guest of Honor team, Online Con, Safety, Safer Spaces, and Registration, you’ll learn how to run WisCONline core functions. If we have enough leadership to hold WisCon in-person, you’ll step into either Hospitality or Operations Chair in June, to become more active in late fall. Expect to volunteer 1-5 hours per week, increasing gradually up to 10-15 hours the week before WisCon. If this seems like an intriguing challenge, contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Apprentice Comms Chair).

 

Would you like to learn or practice volunteer coordination and management? You can help us be ready for the next WisCon! This remote role involves checking progress and follow-up with Personnel volunteers for a few hours per week. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Personnel Apprentice Chair) for more information.

Interview prospective volunteers and help them find their best fit with open positions. Also perform exit interviews as needed.  Member Time commitment varies from 1-2 hours per week May-Dec, up to 3-4 hours per week ramping up to WisCon. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Volunteer Interviewer) for more information.

Are you fascinated by the big picture and happy to let others handle mundane details? Or perhaps you love connecting people to facilitate effective action. You may be the perfect candidate to become Vice President of the SF3 Board. Expect to spend 3-7 hours a month as the liaison between the Board and WisCon committee chairs. For more information, contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: SF3 VP).

Have you ever been curious what it takes to keep WisCon well-resourced and in good legal standing? If you become a SF3 Board Member at Large, you can become familiar with the SF3 Board and execute self-directed projects. This term will be renewed in October. Expect to volunteer about 2-5 hours per month, more at your option. Prior non-profit, non-profit board experience, and/or experience attending WisCon, is a bonus. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: SF3 Board member) for more information.