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OFFICIAL - Volunteer signup!
The Apolyton Convention not only need your attendance at the convention, we also need a stable of volunteers to help plan and do the things that need doing to make this convention the success Mark and Dan deserve. Short-timers as well as long-timers – if you can donate an hour or three at the convention, a couple of hours per week before the convention, anything, it will be greatly appreciated.
For starters, we need to form a Convention Committee, a group of 3-5 people who will be involved most heavily in the planning of the convention – the committee will investigate meeting places, golfing locations, arrange dates and time with the people of Big Huge Games and Firaxis. People in the committee can expect to spend a growing amount of time to the convention, culminating in a 48-72 hour period of frenzy, golfing, work, Civilization, and exhaustion.
We’ll also need people to do various tasks, both before and during the convention, tasks taking from 1 hour to… whatever. We’ll need a number of somebodies to man the sign-up booth the Friday and Saturday it’s open, we’ll need somebody to design a logo and possibly throw together and maintain a web page, we’ll need other people for other small tasks. Most of the things that need doing the committee members can do, but other people have special talents and might want to lend them to the cause. On other tasks, the committee just doesn’t have the manpower to do by itself (booths, possible drivers, etc) and we will need help.
Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?
Well… it can be. You’ll have been an integral part to putting something a little special, a little out-of-the-ordinary together. You’ll meet and talk to all sorts of people you would not have met before, do things that you’ve never done before… hell, at the end, Sid and Brian will likely call you by your first name.
You’ll also gain contacts in a number of industries (including the PC game industry) and have something substantial to discuss when an interviewer asks “Tell me about a time in which you have worked in a group setting to accomplish a specific goal?”
But most importantly, you’ll do something different, something you’ll remember for the rest of your lives. Anybody can not do a convention, not doing anything is the easiest thing in the world. But working to put together a convention of Civilization fans? Fun?
Naw… It’ll be a freakin’ blast, trust me. In time, you’ll be glad to have helped.
So, respond to this thread, let us know if you’re interested in doing anything for the convention, if you’re willing to do something @ home or at the convention itself. It could very well be that we might never call on your services (and I’ll never ask you to do that which you can’t handle (but don’t volunteer for something you can’t handle, either!)), but if you’re willing to do anything, please let me know.
For starters, we need to form a Convention Committee, a group of 3-5 people who will be involved most heavily in the planning of the convention – the committee will investigate meeting places, golfing locations, arrange dates and time with the people of Big Huge Games and Firaxis. People in the committee can expect to spend a growing amount of time to the convention, culminating in a 48-72 hour period of frenzy, golfing, work, Civilization, and exhaustion.
We’ll also need people to do various tasks, both before and during the convention, tasks taking from 1 hour to… whatever. We’ll need a number of somebodies to man the sign-up booth the Friday and Saturday it’s open, we’ll need somebody to design a logo and possibly throw together and maintain a web page, we’ll need other people for other small tasks. Most of the things that need doing the committee members can do, but other people have special talents and might want to lend them to the cause. On other tasks, the committee just doesn’t have the manpower to do by itself (booths, possible drivers, etc) and we will need help.
Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?
Well… it can be. You’ll have been an integral part to putting something a little special, a little out-of-the-ordinary together. You’ll meet and talk to all sorts of people you would not have met before, do things that you’ve never done before… hell, at the end, Sid and Brian will likely call you by your first name.
You’ll also gain contacts in a number of industries (including the PC game industry) and have something substantial to discuss when an interviewer asks “Tell me about a time in which you have worked in a group setting to accomplish a specific goal?” But most importantly, you’ll do something different, something you’ll remember for the rest of your lives. Anybody can not do a convention, not doing anything is the easiest thing in the world. But working to put together a convention of Civilization fans? Fun?
Naw… It’ll be a freakin’ blast, trust me.
In time, you’ll be glad to have helped.So, respond to this thread, let us know if you’re interested in doing anything for the convention, if you’re willing to do something @ home or at the convention itself. It could very well be that we might never call on your services (and I’ll never ask you to do that which you can’t handle (but don’t volunteer for something you can’t handle, either!)), but if you’re willing to do anything, please let me know.
I design alternate reality games, so if there are any games conferences on at the same time (or Firaxis suddenly decide they want to work on one) then it'd be easy to get over. Otherwise I'd just take a holiday, which is fine as well.
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