{"id":466,"date":"2017-05-25T19:43:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T19:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.dc.wordcamp.org\/?p=466"},"modified":"2017-06-11T22:38:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T02:38:14","slug":"call-for-volunteers-we-need-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/call-for-volunteers-we-need-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for volunteers &#8212; we need you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Update:\u00a0<\/strong>The call for volunteers is now closed.<br \/>\nThank you to everyone who signed up!<\/p>\n<p>As locally-organized, community-focused events, WordCamps are only successful thanks to a team of kind volunteers who give their time to make it all\u00a0happen.<\/p>\n<p>We are now looking for generous folks <em><strong>like you<\/strong><\/em> to volunteer during the first WordCamp DC.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers will receive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free, full 3-day ticket to WordCamp.<\/li>\n<li>Invitation to our &#8220;Thank You&#8221; reception the night before Camp with speakers, sponsors, and fellow volunteers.<\/li>\n<li>A great chance to meet awesome people in the community and see behind the scenes of a big\u00a0WordCamp.<\/li>\n<li>The contentment that comes with contributing. \ud83e\udd17<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a wide variety of\u00a0jobs that need doing, from checking people in at registration and handing out t-shirts, to answering WordPress questions and offering advice at the <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.miami.wordcamp.org\/happiness-bar\/\">Happiness Bar<\/a>, to helping speakers set up and emceeing sessions, to taking photos and recording video of talks for <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.tv\/\">WordPress.tv<\/a>, to moving around tables and unpacking boxes\u00a0&#8212; something for everyone.<\/p>\n<h3>Become a volunteer<\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re ready to join the team, please fill out the form below. We&#8217;ll do our best to match assignments to your interests, though a little flexibility may be required.\u00a0Expect to work at least 4 hours, but we\u00a0promise to leave plenty of\u00a0space\u00a0in your schedule to explore the conference on your own.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you in advance!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>The call for volunteers has closed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update:\u00a0The call for volunteers is now closed. Thank you to everyone who signed up! As locally-organized, community-focused events, WordCamps are only successful thanks to a team of kind volunteers who give their time to make it all\u00a0happen. We are now looking for generous folks like you to volunteer during the first WordCamp DC. Volunteers will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/call-for-volunteers-we-need-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Call for volunteers &#8212; we need you!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13328471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gcWY-7w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13328471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}