This year, volunteers will be broken into two groups: Organizing Volunteers and Supporting Volunteers. Organizing Volunteers are the people who own specific roles that are vital to the success of the camp. These roles require a higher level of involvement and responsibility, especially prior to the camp. Supporting Volunteers are also vital to the success of the camp and will working with Organizing Volunteers to ensure all tasks in their area of interest are being accomplished.

Organizing Volunteers

All organizing volunteers should plan to attend the weekly planning meeting at least twice a month when items pertaining to their responsibilities are up for discussion. Meeting agendas will be posted Wednesday each week, giving Organizers the opportunity to reach out to the camp Project Manager if they are needed for an agenda item and unable to make that week's call.

Director and Financial Organizer: Matthew Saunders

  • Primary decision maker and camp owner.
  • Manage camp finances and main council in all financial decisions.

Venue Organizer: Nelson Harris

  • Primary POC for DCCO's interactions with venue booking staff.

Project Manager and Volunteer Organizer: Nick Switzer

  • Manages the camp issue queue to ensure all tasks are completed and up to date. Creates weekly meeting agendas and provides notes in issue queue after each meeting. Removes blockers in any tasks that are preventing camp planning from moving forward. Escalates issues that need further attention to the Director.
  • Main POC for volunteer responsibility questions and volunteer opportunities. Outreach to potential organizing and support volunteers.

Financial Organizer and BuildaModule Training Organizer: Gregg Marshall

  • Manage camp finances and main council in all financial decisions.
  • Planning and execution of the BuildaModule training.

Sponsorship Organizer: Nelson Harris

  • Determines sponsorship levels, names and cost. Works with the marketing organizer to coordinate outreach to previous years' sponsors and potential new sponsors for the camp. If sponsorship support volunteer(s) are available, the organizer is their main POC and an escalation point for sponsors, otherwise the organizer is the main POC for sponsors.

Summit Organizer: Chris Coughlan

  • Coordinates speakers and agenda for the non-profit, library and higher ed summits. Works with the Venue Organizer to determine the best venue for the summits.

Training Organizer: Gregg Marshall

  • Responsible for booking trainings and coordination of individual training organizers and mentors. Outreach to potential training leads.

Contribution Day Organizers: Gurwinder Antal and AmyJune Hineline

  • Responsible for organizing Sunday contribution day.

Web Team Organizer: James Nettik

  • Main POC for the camp website. Works with Project Manager to ensure website is on track and necessary work is being assigned and completed. Escalation point for any hotfixes required for the production environment.

Marketing Organizer: Phil Stier

  • Outreach to individual attendees as well as organizations that may be interested in camp involvement (higher ed, gov, agencies, etc) to drive attendance and awareness. Coordination of marketing campaigns to promote camp attendence. Owner of camp email marketing outreach (Mailchimp).

Branding and Design Organizer: Lauren Motl

  • Owner of camp branding and style guide. This includes: camp logo and style guide, website designs, t-shirt design and printing, badge design and printing, day of signage design and printing. This person may want to do all of this design work or use supporting volunteers to help with the various pieces.

Catering Organizer: Carmela White

  • Owns booking of all catering services at the venue for all three days of the camp.
  • Works with other organizers to determine logistics around catering - e.g. budget, schedule, sponsorships.

Day of and Registration Organizer: Volunteer Needed!

  • Main POC for setup and camp logistics needs leading up to and the day of the camp. Will need to be present for the entirety of the camp to ensure signage is hung, registration desk is staffed and all questions are answered.

Session Recording Organizer: Brent Robbins

  • Responsible for coordinating recording of all sessions the day of the camp and organizing a list of supporting volunteers to staff each classroom and ensure recording goes smoothly.

Supporting Volunteers

Supporting volunteers are encouraged to attend the weekly meetings as often as possible, but are not required to be there. Each supporting volunteer should be in touch with their Organizer on a weekly basis (via Slack, email or any other communication channel) to provide updates regarding anything camp-related they've been working on.

  • Venue coordination support: Justin Christofferson
  • Web Team: Volunteer Needed!
  • Library Summit Organizers: Kay Thayer and Owen Bush
  • Non-profit Summit Organizers: Clayton Dewey and Greg Knaddison
  • Higher Education Summit Organizers: TBD
  • Branding and Design - 2019 Logo and Brand Guide: Lauren Motl
  • Branding and Design - Website design/wires: Lauren Motl
  • Day of - Power strip and extension cord provider: Amanda Marshall
  • Day of - Coffee coordination: Volunteers Needed!
  • Day of - Registration desk staff: Volunteers Needed!
  • Training - BuildaModule Mentor: Volunteer Needed!

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    larsdesigns’s picture

    I am available to volunteer as a Venue Coordinator again this year.

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    Thanks @larsdesigns! I've added you in to the volunteer list. Nelson (@npharris) will also be working on venue coordination, so I've passed you email address along to him and made sure that he'll be cc'ing you on venue coordination emails.

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    I will volunteer for Branding and Design Organizer.

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    Thanks @lmotl. Added you to the list!

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    I see that you have some of your past camp videos posted on YouTube and that Brent is tasked with session recordings this year. I'm curious about your setup, how well it's working, and if I can offer remote support in any way.

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    Room Monitor volunteer positions are available at https://drupalcolorado.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/?start_over&id=40102

    If anyone wants to help more or wants to invite folks to help, there's a good opportunity!

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    Status: Active » Fixed

    Closing this now that we have the 2020 volunteer list up!

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    Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.