Volunteering

We usually need folks for badge-checking and/or helping out in the con suite. Helping hands are also needed Thursday night to set up the art show, but that means you need to live in or near Austin. If you do, then that's an additional option.

If you're not familiar with these jobs, badge-checking essentially means standing (or sitting, if we can find a chair) at the entrance to the dealer's room or the art show and making sure only those with Con badges enter. Con suite duty usually means making sure there are lots of goodies available and whatever else needs doing. Art show set-up is heavy labor, but you usually get fed.

If you register after the discount deadline or at the door, eight volunteer hours earns you a rebate on your membership. In other words, if you've paid the full fee, you'll receive the difference between what you paid and what the con committee members pay as a refund once your eight hours are in.

There will be sign-up and schedule sheets at the registration table, and if you're fairly sure you'll be working I'll make a note to that effect on my list.

If you want to sign up in advance of the con, click here .