Volunteer Archive

Help Austin Browncoats work our dealer's booth at IKKiCON, a Japanese animation and pop-culture convention held right here in Austin.

We currently have the following positions filled:

Event Chairperson: Elizabeth Nelson
Sales Coordinator: Ryan Campbell
Booth Design: Claudia Drinovsky

We still need the following:

Booth Salesman

You will work closely with the Sales Coordinator and Chairperson. You must have sales or customer service experience for this position. We have 4 hour shifts available during this four day event. You can work multiple shifts, but we require at least a 30 minute lunch break for all Booth Salesman. You will need to be comfortable handling cash, credit and personal check transactions. We have a standard issue wireless credit card machine. We will need at least 4 Salesman.

Fan Outreach

You will work at the booth and work the convention floor, handing out printed material about our upcoming events. If folks have questions about our organization, you will need to be prepared to discuss the Austin Browncoats and our charitable work. This is a networking position. We have 4 hour shifts available during this four day event. You can work multiple shifts, but we require at least a 30 minute lunch break for all Fan Outreach Volunteers. You will work closely with the Chairman.

Publications

You will provide all required printed materials for this event. This position does not have to be at the event, but will need to deliver the printed materials to an event volunteer prior to the event date. Materials will primarily be printed in black and white on white or off-white paper.

The Austin Browncoats host charitable functions all year long, ranging from convention booths to large-scale shindigs. We're looking for day-of volunteers to assist us in making The Lone Star Shindig the shiniest shindig in the 'verse! But to do so, we'll need your help!

Cooking

We'll need assistance getting tea made on site and prep work for hors d'oeuvres, especially any food items we can't prepare ahead of time. The Abbey has a full kitchen that we can use for our event. We'll also need assistance with putting together picnic lunches for all attendees.

Decorations

We need a tenacious volunteer (or four!) to assist in turning Grace Methodist Church into Shepherd Book's Southdown Abbey on Persephone. You work will primarily be on Saturday evening, although simple table decor work will be needed for Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. No design work will be required for Sunday afternoon. You will be required to come up with a plan for decoration, confirm with the Chair and Entertainment Manager, and then execute your plan. This volunteer position is best suited for someone with the ability to turn a small budget into amazing results.

Clean Up Crew

We will need a few volunteers to assist with clean-up and tear down on Saturday night. Clean-up will include: dish washing, breaking down tables and putting tables and chairs away, tear down of all decorations and removing any garbage from the premises. This position is extremely important, because we must leave the venue in the same (or better) condition that it was prior to our event.

Street Team and E-Street Team

Having a good presence around town and online is extremely important, and directly correlates to the success of an event. We need enthusiastic volunteers from all over Texas to paper Browncoat (and more generally, Sci-Fi) friendly locales with flyers about Lone Star Shindig. We will also need folks to post online about Lone Star Shindig – specifically on Browncoat/Sci-Fi friendly sites. (Examples of good sites to post content on include, but are not limited to, Myspace, Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal, Forums, Meetup, Meetin, etc.)

Publications

You will provide all required printed materials for this event. This position does not have to be at the event, but will need to deliver the printed materials to an event volunteer prior to the event date. Materials will primarily be printed in black and white on white or off-white paper.

If you want to volunteer, but don't see the perfect position available, please contact us at: volunteer@austinbrowncoats.com, so we can find a place that best suites your skills.

Event Chairperson: Elizabeth Nelson
Sales Coordinator: Claudia Drinovsky
Treasurer: Jennifer Henderson

Booth Salesman

You will work closely with the Sales Coordinator and Chairperson. You must have sales or customer service experience for this position. We have 4 hour shifts available during this two day event. You can work multiple shifts, but we require at least a 30 minute lunch break for all Booth Salesman. You will need to be comfortable handling cash, credit and personal check transactions. We have a standard issue wireless credit card machine.

Fan Outreach

You will work at the booth and work the convention floor, handing out printed material about our upcoming events. If folks have questions about our organization, you will need to be prepared to discuss the Austin Browncoats and our charitable work. This is a networking position. We have 4 hour shifts available during this two day event. You can work multiple shifts, but we require at least a 30 minute lunch break for all Fan Outreach Volunteers. You will work closely with the Chairman.

Publications

You will provide all required printed materials for this event. This position does not have to be at the event, but will need to deliver the printed materials to an event volunteer prior to the event date. Materials will primarily be printed in black and white on white or off-white paper.

Help Austin Browncoats work our dealer's booth at Dragon*Con. This is an extremely busy convention, so running this booth will be a lot of work, but it'll also be extremely rewarding. We're sharing our booth with Kids Need To Read, one of our favorite charities!

We currently have the following positions filled:

Event Chairperson: Elizabeth Nelson
Sales Coordinator: Claudia Drinovsky

We still need the following:

Booth Design

You will work with the Sales Coordinator and Chairperson to help create the look of the booth and set up merchandise. We will supply you with the exact size of the table space included, as well as floor plan for the booth. We will also give you an inventory of items we might bring, although exact inventory displayed will be determined at the event.

Booth Salesman

You will work closely with the Sales Coordinator and Chairperson. You must have sales or customer service experience for this position. We have 4 hour shifts available during this four day event. You can work multiple shifts, but we require at least a 30 minute lunch break for all Booth Salesman. You will need to be comfortable handling cash, credit and personal check transactions. We have a standard issue wireless credit card machine. We will need at least 4 Salesman.

Fan Outreach

You will work at the booth and work the convention floor, handing out printed material about our upcoming events. If folks have questions about our organization, you will need to be prepared to discuss the Austin Browncoats and our charitable work. This is a networking position. We have 4 hour shifts available during this four day event. You can work multiple shifts, but we require at least a 30 minute lunch break for all Fan Outreach Volunteers. You will work closely with the Chairman.

Publications

You will provide all required printed materials for this event. This position does not have to be at the event, but will need to deliver the printed materials to an event volunteer prior to the event date. Materials will primarily be printed in black and white on white or off-white paper.

Come be a part of Geekstravaganza 2009, held in Austin this upcoming spring. Geekstravaganza is a night of science-fiction and fun! We'll have live music, a talent show, trivia bee and costume contest! We're in need of some awesome volunteers and committee members of varying degrees of participation and would love to have you join the team.

We currently have the following team members:

Committee Chair: Ryan Campbell
Assistant Chair: Claudia Drinovsky
Webmaster: Kazia Hodges

We still need the following:

Webmaster

This is specifically for www.geekstravaganza.com. This role will be fairly minimal, since the Geekstravaganza website will hold as an "Event Flyer" and not have a news update log or much changing content. This person's job will start as soon as possible. They will work closely with the graphic artist, Committee Chair and Charity Chairman.

Graphic Artist

We are in need of a logo for 2009, t-shirt design and basic graphic design for the website. We'd like to formalize a basic "image" for Geekstravaganza, which will be used throughout the years of this events "life". (A formal logo). This person's job will start as soon as possible. They will work closely with the webmaster, Committee Chair and Charity Chairman.

Sound Director

While the venue we end up choosing might have their own sound director, or require us to use their director, we'd like to have someone onsite that is knowledgeable and trained or experienced in using a soundboard. This person's job will start once we have a venue locked down. They will be required to become familiar with that venues sound system, as well as all performing artist needs. They will report directly to the Committee Chair.

There will be other roles required, so please check back with us if none of the above roles are suited for you or of interest to you. Roles needed will include Emcee, Merchandise Volunteers, Advertising Volunteers (including flyer posting around town), as well as General Floaters.

Thank you for your time and we hope to see you at Geekstravaganza 2009!

Help Austin Browncoats work our dealer's booth and Fan Table at All-Con. For three days All-Con provides an umbrella of content supporting fans of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Renaissance, Anime, Costuming, Theater / Performing Arts, Mystery, Art, Crafts, Collecting, and Film Making. To help 'give back' there are several charity events at the convention every year. We have a decent amount of space at this event, so booth set up should be fairly simple.

We currently have the following positions filled:

Event Chairperson: Elizabeth Nelson
Sales Coordinator/Treasurer: Ryan Campbell

We still need the following:

Booth Design

You will work with the Sales Coordinator and Chairperson to help create the look of the booth and set up merchandise. We will supply you with the exact size of the table space included, as well as floor plan for the booth. We will also give you an inventory of items we might bring, although exact inventory displayed will be determined at the event.

Booth Salesman

You will work closely with the Sales Coordinator and Chairperson. You must have sales or customer service experience for this position. We have 4 hour shifts available during this three day event. You can work multiple shifts, but we require at least a 30 minute lunch break for all Booth Salesman. You will need to be comfortable handling cash, credit and personal check transactions. We have a standard issue wireless credit card machine.

Fan Outreach

You will work at the booth and work the convention floor, handing out printed material about our upcoming events. If folks have questions about our organization, you will need to be prepared to discuss the Austin Browncoats and our charitable work. This is a networking position. We have 4 hour shifts available during this three day event. You can work multiple shifts, but we require at least a 30 minute lunch break for all Fan Outreach Volunteers. You will work closely with the Chairman.

Publications

You will provide all required printed materials for this event. This position does not have to be at the event, but will need to deliver the printed materials to an event volunteer prior to the event date. Materials will primarily be printed in black and white on white or off-white paper.

It's that time again. Time for the 2009 Pancake Breakfast hosted by the Austin Browncoats. We need volunteers to help plan and advertise for the event, as well as helpers on day of the event. If you are interested in volunteering for any of the following positions, write to: volunteer@austinbrowncoats.com

Online PR

You will be responsible for organizing the online PR for this event. This includes posting about the event in event calendars all over Austin, submitting the event to the Austin Chronicle, and coordinating other online PR efforts.

PR

You will coordinate with radio stations and other media to promote the event.

Publications

You will provide all printed materials for this event. Materials include event tickets and black and white flyers for distribution.

Ticket Sellers

You will sell tickets to the event in advance. The volunteer in charge of publications will provide the tickets. You will need to be comfortable handling cash and personal check transactions.

Flyer Marketing

You will distribute and display flyers around town to best advertise the event. The volunteer in charge of publications will provide the flyers.

Servers

You will help serve the pancakes and bring coffee and orange juice to event patrons on the day of the event.

Busser Personnel

You will clear off dishes and wipe down tables after the event is over.

Help Austin Browncoats work our dealer's booth at Dallas Comic Con. A mix of comic book artists and Hollywood actors, Comic Con will offer a few thousand attendees and an 8' x 8' booth space for selling our goods. This will be a challenging booth because of limited space, but will give us a good idea of what we need to purchase to complete our booth set-up.

We currently have the following positions filled:

Event Chairperson: Elizabeth Nelson
Sales Coordinator/Treasurer: Ryan Campbell

We still need the following:

Booth Design

You will work with the Sales Coordinator and Chairperson to help create the look of the booth and set up merchandise. We will supply you with the exact size of the table space included, as well as floor plan for the booth. We will also give you an inventory of items we might bring, although exact inventory displayed will be determined at the event.

Booth Salesman

You will work closely with the Sales Coordinator and Chairperson. You must have sales or customer service experience for this position. We have 4 hour shifts available during this two day event. You can work multiple shifts, but we require at least a 30 minute lunch break for all Booth Salesman. You will need to be comfortable handling cash, credit and personal check transactions. We have a standard issue wireless credit card machine.

Fan Outreach

You will work at the booth and work the convention floor, handing out printed material about our upcoming events. If folks have questions about our organization, you will need to be prepared to discuss the Austin Browncoats and our charitable work. This is a networking position. We have 4 hour shifts available during this two day event. You can work multiple shifts, but we require at least a 30 minute lunch break for all Fan Outreach Volunteers. You will work closely with the Chairman.

Publications

You will provide all required printed materials for this event. This position does not have to be at the event, but will need to deliver the printed materials to an event volunteer prior to the event date. Materials will primarily be printed in black and white on white or off-white paper.