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[[!meta title="Volunteer"]]
[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2022-2024 Sacha Chua"]]
Want to help make EmacsConf awesomer and learn a lot along the way?
Volunteering is a great way to meet fellow Emacs geeks, tinker around
with interesting packages and scripts, and develop your skills.
In addition to the
[emacsconf-discuss](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss)
list, feel free to subscribe to
[emacsconf-org](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org)
as well, for discussions related to organizing the conference by the
EmacsConf organizers and volunteers.
Here are some of the roles that you might be able to help with. Roles
have different responsibilities, and a person can have multiple roles.
You can help out with one or more of the things here, or you can
suggest your own ways of making EmacsConf better.
# A few roles you can help with
If you don't see something you want to help with here, email
[emacsconf-org@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering for
EmacsConf 2024) and let us know about the skills you have and the skills you
want to develop! Also, if you’d like to volunteer privately, you can use
[emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering
for EmacsConf 2024) instead.
## Captioner
Do you like working with text? Do you want early access to the
pre-recorded talks? Help make EmacsConf videos easier to understand
and search by captioning them!
Here's what people said about how most of the EmacsConf talks were
streamed with captions during the conference itself:
- "I really appreciate the approach of doing things prerecorded and
having captions."
- "The captions for this conference have had an impressive amount of
work put into them."
- "++ to all that stuff. Great job on the captions, and the
demonstrated functionality is very impressive."
- "At first, I thought the captions would be unnecessary, but over
time, understanding the accents for various individuals has been
challenging, so the captions helped."
Most of the captioning work will begin once speakers submit their
pre-recorded videos. If you like, you can warm up by
[captioning previous talks.](https://emacsconf.org/help_with_main_captions/)
You can use any captioning tool you want. There's even
[one for Emacs](https://github.com/sachac/subed). Check out these
[captioning tips](https://emacsconf.org/captioning/). You can start by
editing autogenerated captions, or you can write captions from scratch
if you want. You can work with timing, or you can send us plain text
and we'll get them aligned with the videos. Videos range from 10
minutes to 40 minutes and typically take 2-6x the video time to
caption once you've gotten the hang of it. Partial work is also
helpful, so feel free to contribute whatever you want, whenever you want.
More details: [[volunteer/caption]]
To volunteer as a captioner, email
[emacsconf-org@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering to
caption) (or privately:
[emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering
to caption)) and we'll help you get set up.
## Internet Relay Chat monitor
Do you like the buzz of fast-flowing discussions? Do you want to make
sure that questions and interesting points don't get lost? Volunteer
to copy stuff from the EmacsConf IRC channels to the Etherpad so that
speakers and hosts can find them.
More details: [[volunteer/irc]]
To volunteer as an Internet Relay Chat monitor, [let us know your availability
at emacsconf-org@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering as
an IRC monitor) (or privately:
[emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering
as an IRC monitor)) and we'll schedule you in.
## Pad scribe
Do you like taking notes? Volunteer to summarize interesting points
and links from the EmacsConf talks and Q&A sessions to the Etherpad so
that people can review them afterwards.
More details: [[volunteer/pad]]
To volunteer as a pad scribe,
[let us know your availability at emacsconf-org@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering
as a pad scribe) (or privately: [emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering
as a pad scribe)) and we'll schedule you in.
## Audio processing
Do you appreciate denoised and normalized audio? Please help us process videos so that they are consistently nice to listen to. Your help in the month before the conference will be much appreciated!
To volunteer to help with audio,
[let us know your availability at emacsconf-org@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering
for audio) (or privately: [emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering
for audio)) and we'll schedule you in.
## Infrastructure and video
Do you have an arcane cookbook filed with `ffmpeg` incantations? Is
OBS your jam? Are you comfortable with the command-line? Do you
Ansible all your servers? Do you like tweaking CSS rules to make
things look good? (You don't have to say yes to all of these things -
that would be quite a full stack!) We could use your help!
To volunteer for infrastructure and video, email
[emacsconf-org@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering for
infrastructure and video) (or privately:
[emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering
for infrastructure and video)) and we'll help you get set up.
# Got other ideas?
[We'd love to hear from you!](mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org) (or privately:
[emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org))
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