Volunteer

If you have never volunteered at a convention before, this is the best place to start. This role involves checking for badges, sometimes verifying the membership level, at key points around the convention. This role also involves providing general guidance to attendees on where functions are located. This is a sitting-down position.

This position primarily involves helping maintain lines of crowds, ensuring walkways are not blocked, and advancing ADA attendees to the priority lines. This is a mobile position and typically involves using a loud voice to direct attendees.

The name of this role is very generalized and encompasses a number of various ADA-related roles (though it does not mean you have to cover them all). This includes assisting mobility impaired attendees navigate the venue, provide verbal directions/descriptions/instructions to vision impaired attendees, assisting hearing impaired attendees procure ASL interpreters, and more.

This is a fairly easy position for physically able volunteers. Setup and teardown of the convention. Helping with loading the truck at the storage unit, help with distribution of items around the convention and set up, help with collection of all convention items to be loaded on to the truck, and helping to unload the truck back into the storage unit. This has the ability to earn 1.5 times the hours for assisting at the convention for total hours worked.

A moderate difficulty, but entirely sitting-down position. Work quickly to get attendees their badges by verifying their ID against their registration, process payments for any due balance, and resolve issues with registrations as needed. Fast-paced, systematic, detailed work. Requires money handling skills.

Check in on our vendors in the Dealer's Den and Artist's Alley and provide support as needed. May require quick navigation through packed crowds.

Operate the con store to sell Furlandia's merchandise to attendees (and sometimes, the general public). This is equivalent to operating a vendor booth, requires money handling skills.

You will be watching over the fursuit lounge (AKA the headless lounge), maintaining the cleanliness of the space, ensuring there are sufficient supplies for fursuiters to take a break, maintaining the lounge rules, as well as provide support to fursuiters as needed.

Our convention offers a hospitality suite for volunteers who need a place to take a break and get a quick snack. This role is for operating the hospitality suite. You will be responsible for watching over the suite, as well as providing food and drinks to our volunteers as needed. It is recommended, but not required, to have a food handler's card.

This role involves assisting the panelists during the event to ensure their panel is operating nominally. This includes basic tech troubleshooting (such as connecting a computer to the projector and internet) and providing silent time reminders to ensure the panelist finishes on time.

The backbone of the convention's infrastructure. Configure servers, network switches and Linux Mint laptops on site, troubleshoot issues as they arise, and ensure all technology is operating nominally.

This is primarily focused on the setup and teardown of A/V equipment. You will work with our A/V vendor to setup and take down the stage, including rigging and hooking up the lights and speakers, and anything else the A/V crew requests.

Pre-event role only. This team handles the development of advertising and promotional material, including outreach to local stores and restaurants and other conventions.

Pre-event role only. You will be drawing artwork for the convention to use for signage and promotion.

At the convention, this is your time to shine! You will be responsible for designing and placing props and decorating the venue to match the convention's theme to the extent the venue allows.

The backbone of our volunteer workforce. Pre-convention, assist volunteers by coordinating shift schedules, provide training material as needed and address common questions volunteers may have. During the convention, clock volunteers in and out, signing out radios as needed, provide staff handbooks and hand out rewards for completion of hours. This is a sitting role.

The title is self explanatory. You will be responsible for maintaining the website and updating it as needed, both before and during the convention.