Like all WordCamps, WordCamp Sacramento is planned, organized, and run by volunteers from our local WordPress community — and a critical part of making WordCamp Sacramento a success is our day-of-event volunteers — and we need your help!
As a volunteer, you’ll help our event run smoothly, make sure our attendees have a great time, and bolster our local WordPress community. Plus, it’s a great opportunity to meet more people in the community, deepen relationships, and give back to the open source software we all use and love.
Volunteer Benefits Include:
- Be an essential part of the running of a successful WordCamp
- Have the opportunity to meet speakers from all over the world
- Help to support the local WordPress community
- Meet WordPress users and professionals from the greater Sacramento area and beyond
- Make new contacts and meet others excited about WordPress
- A ticket to WordCamp Sacramento
- An invitation to the Friday VIP Kick-Off Dinner
- A limited edition Volunteer T-Shirt
Volunteer Requirements:
- Communicate with the Volunteer Director as needed
- Attend the pre-event volunteer meeting (Tentatively set for Wednesday, September 12th, 6pm at the convention center)
- Attend the event and fulfill your volunteer role
Volunteer Roles
Some of the key volunteer roles include:
- Registration: Staff registration table, checking in attendees and passing out event swag. Take one shift manning the registration table during the event.
- Event Photography: Own one room for one day, photographing the speakers and attendees.
- Video: Own one room for one day.
- Speaker Introductions: Own one room for a day, introducing the speakers.
- Room Manager: Own one room of sessions for one day, mitigating any in-room issues.
- Happiness Bar: Provide hands-on help for all things WordPress,
Additional Task All Volunteers Must Help With
- Event Setup: All volunteers must arrive at 7:00 am on Saturday and 10:00 am on Sunday to help with event setup
- Event Clean Up: All volunteers must help clean up at the end of both Saturday and Sunday.
- Direction Givers: All volunteers not currently working, must help direct attendees into the building in the morning and to the food trucks during lunch.
Things to Note
It is likely you will NOT be able to attend some or all speaker sessions (unless in a role that allows you to do so), or the Beginner Track. Please don’t apply if you simply wish to attend the WordCamp as an attendee, or if attending sessions is a priority. Thanks!
There are limited volunteer positions available, as a result, everyone who applies to volunteer may not receive a volunteer role.
Apply To Volunteer
Interested? Register below to reserve your position as a Volunteer today!
A/V Release
By submitting a volunteer form for WordCamp Sacramento 2018, you understand that portions of the event will be photographed and/or audio/video-recorded for use by the WordPress Foundation.
As a volunteer, you agree that WordPress Community Support has the right and permission to use and publish such media — which may include your name, likeness, voice, city/state of residence, or photograph — for any purpose in any format, online (including, but not limited to, WordPress.tv and WordCamp.org) and/or offline, now and hereafter without further compensation, permission, or notification.
You understand that all official recordings from the event are the exclusive property of the WordPress Community Support, PBC, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license for general use, and do not ask for nor expect compensation or notification of the use of official recordings or photographs in which you appear or speak.
Speaker/Volunteer Release
- I agree that WordCamps are meant to benefit the local WordPress community through live events and the broader WordPress community through the sharing of online video and other materials.
- I agree that a WordCamp is a casual, local, volunteer-organized event, focused on WordPress and reflecting the local WordPress community it represents.
- I understand that WordCamp organizers, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers are expected to support the WordPress project and its principles.
- I agree that WordCamps are not-for-profit events, organized with budget and funding transparency.
- I agree that WordCamps should be accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of financial status.
- I agree that I am not an employee of the WordPress Foundation or any subsidiary of the Foundation, and am participating in WordCamp exclusively as a volunteer.
I understand that the principles of the WordPress project include:
- no discrimination on the basis of economic or social status, race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, or disability
- no incitement to violence or promotion of hate
- no spammers
- no jerks
- respect the WordPress trademark
- embrace the WordPress license; If distributing WordPress-derivative works (themes, plugins, WP distros), any person or business officially associated with WordCamp should give their users the same freedoms that WordPress itself provides: 100% GPL or compatible, the same guidelines we follow on WordPress.org
- don’t promote companies or people that violate the trademark or distribute WordPress derivative works which aren’t 100% GPL compatible
All volunteer positions have been filled.