Written by Tom Limoncelli for Everything Sysadmin

Interested in helping make PICC ’12 happen?

The committee is the most fun group of people I’ve planned a conference with. If you live within 500 miles of New Brunswick, NJ we’d love for you to help out.

Commitment is about an hour a week plus a short phone conference call every other Monday at 8pm.

Here’s some typical volunteer tasks: (we’ll ask you to pick one)

• Forward our mailings to user groups’ mailing lists (The hard part is making sure it actually went out!)
• Someone to maintain our Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter presences.
• Invent new ways to get the word out about the conference.
• Take meeting minutes so the chair can focus on running the meetings.
• Email famous people (or semi-famous computer geeks) and ask them to submit talk proposals.
• Pick a potential sponsor, reach out to them about being a sponsor.
• Website updates (we have a website, we just need occasional edits)
• Coordinate the people reaching out to sponsors.
• Design flyers, posters, etc. (Photoshop or The Gimp experience?)
• Sysadmin-like things like website account management.

As you can see, none of these tasks are difficult but it takes a lot of people all doing a little bit to make a conference. (Kind of like how a bit open source project works)

I like working on PICC because of all the people I meet. That’s what makes it fun.

The Jan 16 meeting is our "Kick off" for the new year. It’s a really good time to get involved.

Interested? If you are, send email to volunteer@picconf.org

Thanks! Tom