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WisCONline 2025

Volunteers Needed for WisCONline 2025: GoH Co-Lead, Apprentice Communications Chair

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Guest of Honor Co-Lead
Want to rub elbows with some of your favorite established authors? Sign on to coordinate communication and logistics for WisCon guests of honor! As Guest of Honor Co-Lead, you’ll 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).

Apprentice Communications Chair
Spread the word about WisCon! As Apprentice Communications Chair you’ll help the Communications Team transmit the latest WisCon news via its website, social media, and newsletters. To learn more, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Apprentice Com Chair).
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Volunteers Needed for WisCONline 2025: Access Team, Writing Workshop Team

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Volunteers needed!
Access Team Member
Do you love finding and hiring people for needed services? We need an Access Team Member to hire live Closed Captions transcribers to help make WisCONline 2025 accessible and welcoming. The process is in place, we just need someone to train and go through the steps! Please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Access Team Member) for more info.
Writing Workshop Team Member
Nurture spec-fic writers! As Workshop Team Member you’ll help the Co-Leads manage video call rooms for critique sessions and special topic sessions and/or take shifts for writing sprints for WisCONline 2025. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Workshop Team Member) for more information.
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Volunteer Needed: IT

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IT volunteer needed: If you have experience with server infrastructure (LAMP stack knowledge desired but not required), we’d love your help with our server migration project. This position can last until the end of the project or can be a longer-term role, depending our your availability and interest. For more information, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: IT volunteer).

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Volunteers Needed for WisCONline 2025: Ceremonies Lead, Gathering Lead, Access Team

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Ceremonies Lead
Love being the center of attention? Become Ceremonies Lead for the WisCONline 2025! You’ll organize the Sunday evening awards ceremony, introduce our Guests of Honor, recognize the contributions of committee chairs (and possibly Otherwise folk), and make other important announcements as needed. This is your chance to shine. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Ceremonies Lead) for more information.
Gathering Lead
If you believe in the importance of social connections, Gathering Lead is the role for you. You’ll solicit gathering activity ideas (via the Communications team) and organize Discord channels to help people socialize as they join WisCONline 2025.
If helping people connect with friends, established and new, is your passion, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Gathering Lead).
Access Team Member
Help make WisCONline 2025 accessible and welcoming to all! You’ll work with the Access Lead(s) to provide Closed Captions, facilitate Alt Text, and troubleshoot other accessibility issues as they arise. For more information, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Access Team Member).
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Website Team Lead Needed

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Be in the know as WisCONline’s Website Team Lead. You’ll update our website with the most current con information, coordinating with IT Infrastructure Lead, AppDev Lead, and other con leads. Expect to spend about 2 hours a week in this position. Familiarity with WordPress a must. For more information contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Website Team Lead).

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Discord Co-Lead and Personnel Co-Chair Needed

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Discord Co-Lead:

Here’s your chance to shine and make order out of Discord! As part of the Online Con team, you’ll set up and manage the WisCon Discord. You’ll coordinate with other departments on programming-specific channels, and help manage Discord volunteers and at-Con moderators to help online attendees connect. If you’re familiar with Discord or similar computer-mediated chat systems and are a skilled project manager, we need you! Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Discord Lead) for more information.

Personnel Co-Chair:

Do you have experience with HR or volunteer coordination and management? You can help SF3 gear up for the next WisCon! This remote role involves checking progress and follow-up with Personnel volunteers for a few hours per week. The Personnel Co-Chair is a member of the SF3 Personnel Committee and reports to the SF3 Vice President. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Personnel Co-Chair) for more information.

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IT Infrastructure Chair and Academic Program Lead Needed

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Volunteers needed!
IT Infrastructure Chair
If you have a passion for translating between tech folks and mere mortals, the role of IT Infrastructure Chair is for you! As IT Chair, you’ll make sure the information technology infrastructure of WisCon runs smoothly, including the website, and WisCONline scheduling and registrations apps.  Expect to spend 3-5 hours a week on this critical volunteer position. To find out more, email personnel@sf3.org (subject: IT Chair).
Academic Program Lead 
If you love research that supports feminist science fiction and fantasy, then the Academic Program Lead position is for you!  You’ll draft a call for proposals from professors, researchers, doctoral candidates and grad students studying fields related to feminist science fiction to present their research at WisCONline 2025. You’ll schedule presentations, and then publish the results after the convention. Templates from previous academic programming leads available.  Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Academic Lead) for more information!
For more information about either of these positions (or if you’d like to volunteer, but neither of these is a good fit for you), you can also check out our list of Open Volunteer Positions.
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SF3 VP Opening

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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 in this crucial role.
For more information, contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: SF3 VP).
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AppDev Team Lead Needed

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Are you a developer interested in making WisConline 2025 possible? As AppDev Team Lead, you’ll manage a team of other application developers to keep our applications running; plan and execute updates on a timely basis; and work with other committees to prioritize enhancements/fixes based on importance and your team’s resources. You’ll also work with Convention Committee leadership, recommending appropriate updates or changes, and using their practical feedback to guide priorities. Expect to spend 1-2 hours a week on this role most of the year, and 10-20 hours (verifying applications) ramping up to WisCon.  Sound interesting? Please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: AppDev Lead) for more information.

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Fundraising Lead Needed

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Do you dream of a career in the non-profit sector? Do you like organizing data and people? Fundraising is the most stable non-profit role, and we can give you valuable experience building up a fundraising program!  You’ll work closely with the Treasurer and meet twice per month, once with Fundraising volunteers and once with all Chairs, to check in about fundraising activities. Mentoring available. To learn more, contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Fundraising Lead).