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+[[!meta title="Volunteer"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2022-2023 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.
+
+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, [e-mail
+emacsconf-org@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org?subject=Volunteering for
+EmacsConf 2023) 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 2023) instead.
+
+## Proposal review
+
+Which talks should we accept, and how can we nudge them to be the best
+they can be? How do we get similar submissions to cover different
+facets? How can we make the schedule flow nicely? Come and help
+us figure out the program!
+
+## 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 has 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.
+
+To volunteer as a captioner, [e-mail
+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.
+
+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. 
+
+To volunteer as a pad scribe monitor, 
+[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.
+
+## 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, [e-mail
+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))