WHY2025 wiki - User contributions [en]

Shifts for teams in Engelsystem

2025-07-21T17:56:14Z

Xu: Noc and Productiehuis???

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Shifts to enter in Engelsystem - status
|-
! Team !! No planned shifts<br/>needed (default) !! Planning<br/>in progress !! Shifts ready
|-
| Team: Accessibility || X || ||
|-
| Team: Badge || X || ||
|-
| Team: Bar || || || X
|-
| Team: Cohesion || X || ||
|-
| Team: Content || X || ||
|-
| Team: CTF || X || ||
|-
| Team: Deco || X || ||
|-
| Team: Entertainment || represented by<br/>Team:Partyarea || ||
|-
| Team: Family || || || X
|-
| Team: Finance || X || ||
|-
| Team: Flags || X || ||
|-
| Team: Foodcourt || X || ||
|-
| Team: Heralds || || depends on<br/>talks schedule ||
|-
| Team: Huisstijl || X || ||
|-
| Team: Info || || || X
|-
| Team: Merch || X || ||
|-
| Team: Moebelhaus || X || ||
|-
| Team: NOC || || || X
|-
| Team: NUTS || X || ||
|-
| Team: Off-site Logistics || X || ||
|-
| Team: On-site Logistics || X || ||
|-
| Team: POC<br/>(fieldphone) || || || X
|-
| Team: Parking || || X ||
|-
| Team: PartyArea || ??? || ||
|-
| Team: Permits || X || ||
|-
| Team: Press || X || ||
|-
| Team: Productiehuis || || || depends on<br/>talks schedule
|-
| Team: Projectleiding || X || ||
|-
| Team: ROC || X || ||
|-
| Team: Safety-Fire || || || X
|-
| Team: Safety-First-AID || || || X
|-
| Team: Safety-Security || || || X
|-
| Team: Shuttle || || || X
|-
| Team: Speaker Desk || ??? || ||
|-
| Team: Sponsors || X || ||
|-
| Team: Sysadmin || X || ||
|-
| Team: Terrain || X || ||
|-
| Team: Ticket & Entrance || || || X
|-
| Team: Villages || X || ||
|-
| Team: Volunteers || || X ||
|-
| Team: Warehouse || ??? || ||
|-
| Team: Waste || ??? || ||
|}

Team:Entertainment has no appointed contact for shifts. We rely on Team:Partyarea to send us their shifts.

Teams marked with ??? have indicated the need for volunteers, but form + info effort did not work out despite reminders. No draft or finished input. Maybe some info in an email in ticketing.

Shifts for teams in Engelsystem

2025-07-17T14:54:39Z

Xu: Family shifts done

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Shifts to enter in Engelsystem - status
|-
! Team !! No planned shifts<br/>needed (default) !! Planning<br/>in progress !! Shifts ready
|-
| Team: Accessibility || X || ||
|-
| Team: Badge || X || ||
|-
| Team: Bar || || || X
|-
| Team: Cohesion || X || ||
|-
| Team: Content || X || ||
|-
| Team: CTF || X || ||
|-
| Team: Deco || X || ||
|-
| Team: Entertainment || represented by<br/>Team:Partyarea || ||
|-
| Team: Family || || || x
|-
| Team: Finance || X || ||
|-
| Team: Flags || X || ||
|-
| Team: Foodcourt || X || ||
|-
| Team: Heralds || || depends on<br/>talks schedule ||
|-
| Team: Huisstijl || X || ||
|-
| Team: Info || || || X
|-
| Team: Merch || X || ||
|-
| Team: Moebelhaus || X || ||
|-
| Team: NOC || || X ||
|-
| Team: NUTS || X || ||
|-
| Team: Off-site Logistics || X || ||
|-
| Team: On-site Logistics || X || ||
|-
| Team: POC<br/>(fieldphone) || || || X
|-
| Team: Parking || || || X
|-
| Team: PartyArea || ??? || ||
|-
| Team: Permits || X || ||
|-
| Team: Press || X || ||
|-
| Team: Productiehuis || || depends on<br/>talks schedule ||
|-
| Team: Projectleiding || X || ||
|-
| Team: ROC || X || ||
|-
| Team: Safety-Fire || ??? || ||
|-
| Team: Safety-First-AID || ??? || ||
|-
| Team: Safety-Security || ??? || ||
|-
| Team: Shuttle || || || X
|-
| Team: Speaker Desk || ??? || ||
|-
| Team: Sponsors || X || ||
|-
| Team: Sysadmin || X || ||
|-
| Team: Terrain || X || ||
|-
| Team: Ticket & Entrance || || || X
|-
| Team: Villages || X || ||
|-
| Team: Volunteers || || X ||
|-
| Team: Warehouse || ??? || ||
|-
| Team: Waste || ??? || ||
|}

Team:Entertainment has no appointed contact for shifts. We rely on Team:Partyarea to send us their shifts.

Teams marked with ??? have indicated the need for volunteers, but form + info effort did not work out despite reminders. No draft or finished input. Maybe some info in an email in ticketing.

Angel Guide

2025-07-09T21:04:21Z

Xu:

[[File:Volunteers needed.png|frameless|right|Volunteers requested :-)]]

[[File:WikiBanner angel guide.png|left]]

<div style="max-width: 800px">
== Introduction ==

Hello angel,

Thank you for being part of the WHY2025 Community and taking the time to read up on how to participate!

This guide tries to convey basic information about volunteering at WHY2025.

If you feel this guide is incomplete, please contact the authors at volunteers@why2025.org.

== Quick start ==

Step 1: Create an Engelsystem account

Step 2: Arrive at WHY2025 (in Geestmerambacht)

Step 3: Go to Heaven and report to the welcome desk

- Get marked as arrived in the Engelsystem

- Get your angel badge

Step 4: Log in to your Engelsystem account, read the shift descriptions and register for a shift.

Step 5: Go to the meeting point before the start of your shift, meet your teammates and have fun!

If you have any questions, ask the welcome angels or the shift coordinators behind the front desk in Heaven.

== Where to get information ==

This is a short list of information sources to get you started.

* The Engelsystem, which offers news and scheduled angel meetings
* The WHY2025 wiki, for instance the Angel page.
* More questions? Try the general FAQ or the Heaven FAQ
* Lost? Try the map!
* Go to the Infodesk in the info tent or the front desk in Heaven

Important DECT numbers:

* 110 Security
* 112 CERT
* 113 Awareness Team
* 1023 Heaven
* 1111 Info Desk
* Find more number in the POC Phonebook

== What is an angel and what do they do? ==

Every visitor that contributes their time to WHY2025 by working one or more shifts is called an angel. During the camp we need hundreds of angels to work thousands of shifts. Angels build up the camp, check tickets, help park cars, pour drinks, organise talks, make video streams and keep us all safe and healthy.

Please join in and make WHY2025 excellent!

=== Perks ===

Being an angel comes with some perks. While we hope that participation is reward enough, here is a list of things that are exclusive to angels:

* Community acknowledgement
* Making it easy to meet fellow hackers
* Hanging out in Heaven
* Fantastic vegan and vegetarian meals
** during your shift you will receive a voucher for a meal
** information on allergens will be made available on the wiki
* A refillable water bottle
* Free coffee, tea and water available in Heaven

If you have contributed a certain amount of time, you may receive access to:

* The famous limited™ angel T-shirt in WHY2025 design

Of course all perks are provided on a “best effort” basis. In particular, the meals are intended for angels who also worked on the day in question and were therefore unable to eat elsewhere.

=== Expectations ===

Volunteering at WHY2025 also comes with some simple, but important expectations of you:

* Be on time for your shift or give Heaven early notice
* Be well rested, sober and not hungry
* Be open-minded and friendly in attitude
* Follow the camps moral values:
** Be excellent to each other
** Check the code of conduct

=== Get Help/Protect Yourself ===

If you don’t feel safe in a shift, please contact Heaven or, if urgent, the security. Your own safety comes before protecting others, especially as an angel.

If you have the feeling that a fellow angel shouldn’t do a shift (e.g. when angel is intoxicated, extremely tired, under the influence of drugs, aggressive or a lone child without a guardian) please contact Heaven and they will have a look and send a replacement if necessary.

== What is Heaven? ==

Heaven is the home of all angels. It is the place where you will always receive help and have your questions answered as you begin your angel career for the current event.

Within Heaven, you will find some of the benefits of being an angel, such as food and drinks. But there is also work to be done in Heaven. There is a helpdesk that manages all active angels. A group of so-called standby angels are waiting for tasks that spontaneously arise. And some angels are working in the kitchen and washing the dishes.

Heaven is also the best place to call, if you have any problems with your shift.

== The Engelsystem ==

The Engelsystem is the central place to distribute the work to all the helping angels. It can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning, but you will get used to it and find your way around.

As you might have seen there are many different shifts and roles for angels — some sounding more appealing than others. There are shifts where you need to have some knowledge before you can take them. This knowledge is transferred in introduction meetings or by taking an unrestricted shift in the team and getting trained on the job. You can read about the requirements in the shift description. Introduction meetings are announced in the Engelsystem under the tab “Meetings”.

Some shifts require angels that have certain certifications, skills or knowledge. Regular angels can’t register for these shifts. The description of the restricted angel type explains what is needed. When one of the supporters listed in Engelsystem confirms you meet the requirements, you can register for such a shift.

Also restrictions are in place, when angels get access to certain systems with a huge amount of data (e.g. mail-queues with emails from participants) or handling big piles of money.

If you want to know more about an angel type, the description of the angel type usually includes contact data such as a DECT number or an email-address to ask your questions. Alternatively, you can also ask one of the persons of the respective angel type mentioned under “Supporter”.

We asked teams to provide information about accessibility requirements for the shifts in Engelsystem. You will will find it in the description of the shifts.

== What to bring to shifts ==

Participating as an angel works best if you have some equipment with you. While most of the tools needed to complete a task will be provided to you, some items are personal and are best brought by yourself. Think about these items:

* Your angel badge
* Refillable water bottle
* DECT phone (optional, bring a qualified model and register it at the POC desk)
* Solid shoes (we are camping after all)
* Appropriate protection if it’s sunny, cold or raining and your shift is outside

If some special item is required (for instance for some shifts you need to bring a laptop or tablet), you’ll find that info in the description of the shift.

== When to arrive? ==

For visitors of the camp, day 0 (August 7th) is considered a good day to arrive. It is the day before the program starts.

On day 0, build up is nearly completed, most infrastructure is set up and the registration desk will already be open, so you can exchange your ticket QR code for a wristband without having to queue for too long.

In addition, the areas are not yet as crowded as during the event, so day 0 is a good opportunity to familiarise yourself with the camp field and have a look around without the fear of missing any interesting talks.

=== Buildup and teardown ===

The camp needs angels for builup and teardown!

If you want to have a more detailed look behind the scenes and are not afraid of all sorts of manual labour like carrying heavy stuff and setting up chairs and tables, you are welcome to arrive earlier (up to day -6, Friday August 1st) and help with buildup. Please let us know about your arrival date in your Engelsystem registration. That helps us coordinating the volunteers.

However, there is only a finite amount of work to be done, many tasks cannot be paralleled and there is NO infrastructure yet. So if you would like to help, please follow messages about buildup on the WHY2025 blog or contact Team:Volunteers for more details.

You are also more than welcome to help during teardown. Often teardown is less popular then buildup! We will start August 13th and work for a few days until everything is packed up.

Food and drinks will be provided to volunteers working during buildup and teardown.

</div>

File:WikiBanner angel guide.png

2025-07-09T21:01:30Z

Xu:

Team:Volunteers

2025-01-11T19:55:23Z

Xu: /* Meetings */ update

{{Team
|Lead=User:Okarin
|Description=Team:Volunteers is responsible for managing the angels during the Event.
|Exclusive team=Yes
|Contact=volunteers@why2025.org
|IRC=why2025-volunteers
|team_is_essential_to_event=Important
|team_has_contact_info=Yes
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|team_needs_x_people=0
|team_has_drafted_budget=No
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|Projectleiding=User:NancyBeers
}}
==Team Members==

{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Okarin}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Xu}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Igel}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Marjolein}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Jasper}}

== Projects ==
* [[Heaven]]
* [[Safety_Vests]]
* [[Angelsystem]]
* [[Angel_Care]]
* [[Water_Bottles]]
* [[Angel_Badges]]
* [[Angel_Shirts]]

=== Shared Projects ===
* Accesible volunteer shifts: [[Team:Accessibility]]
* Heaven decoration: [[Team:Deco]]
* Angel shifts for minors: [[Team:Family]]

==Meetings==
https://meet.hack42.nl/why-volunteers

* <s>28th Aug 2024 20:00</s>
* <s>25th Sep 2024 20:00</s>
* <s>29th Oct 2024 20:00</s>
* <s>26th Nov 2024 20:00</s>
* <s>25th Dec 2024</s> (cancelled)
* <s>6th Jan 2025 20:00</s>
* 21th Jan 2025 20:00
* 5th Feb 2025 20:00
* 20th Feb 2025 20:00
* 7th Mar 2025 20:00
* 17th Mar 2025 20:00

==Roles==

===Before the event===
*Indexing orga vacancies
*On-boarding new organization members
*Planning heaven's amenities
*Planning shifts
*Talk to teams about volunteer needs
**Help teams structure their needs in shifts
*Setting up Engelsystem
*Entering shifts in the Engelsystem

===During the event===
*Recruit volunteers
*Optimize on-boarding experience
*Match volunteers to tasks and shifts:
**Provide teams that have things that need doing with people to do it
**Provide people with spare time with things to do
**Try to optimize fun and efficiency by directing people towards tasks that fit their skills
*Schedule volunteers and inform volunteers about what’s expected from them
*Take care of the volunteers
**Provide basic life necessities to volunteers that help out for more than just a few hours, e.g. food and drinks.
**Express gratitude towards volunteers, e.g. by awarding goodies (t-shirts) and good food
*Manage volunteers on site from early build-up to late tear-down
*Schedule volunteer assignments according to priorities indicated by build-up, tear-down, and PL
*Keep a pool of volunteers available for unplanned ad-hoc tasks.
*Manage the Engelsystem

==Design work==
* A recruitment poster design to recruit more Orga/volunteers (ASAP)
* An angel safety vest design for the [[Safety_Vests]].
* An angel lanyard design for the [[Angel_Badges]].
* An angel t-shirt design for the [[Angel_Shirts]].
* A design to print on the [[Water_Bottles]].

Team:Volunteers

2024-08-14T19:15:06Z

Xu: /* Projects */

{{Team
|Lead=User:Okarin
|Description=Team:Volunteers is responsible for managing the angels during the Event.
|Exclusive team=Yes
|Contact=volunteers@why2025.org
|IRC=why2025-volunteers
|team_is_essential_to_event=Important
|team_has_contact_info=Yes
|team_has_info_on_wiki=No
|team_has_planned_meetings=No
|team_has_enough_people=No
|team_has_drafted_budget=No
|team_has_informed_volunteer_team=Yes
|Projectleiding=User:NancyBeers
}}
==Team Members==

{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Okarin}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Tatiana}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Xu}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Igel}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:MainlyMirte}}

== Projects ==
* [[Heaven]]
* [[Safety_Vests]]
* [[Engelsystem]]
* [[Angel_Care]]
* [[Refillable_Water_Bottles]]
* [[Angel_Badges]]
* [[Angel_Shirts]]

==Roles==

===Before the event===
*Indexing orga vacancies
*On-boarding new organization members
*Planning heaven's amenities
*Planning shifts
*Talk to teams about volunteer needs
**Help teams structure their needs in shifts
*Setting up Engelsystem
*Entering shifts in the Engelsystem

===During the event===
*Recruit volunteers
*Optimize on-boarding experience
*Match volunteers to tasks and shifts:
**Provide teams that have things that need doing with people to do it
**Provide people with spare time with things to do
**Try to optimize fun and efficiency by directing people towards tasks that fit their skills
*Schedule volunteers and inform volunteers about what’s expected from them
*Take care of the volunteers
**Provide basic life necessities to volunteers that help out for more than just a few hours, e.g. food and drinks.
**Express gratitude towards volunteers, e.g. by awarding goodies (t-shirts) and good food
*Manage volunteers on site from early build-up to late tear-down
*Schedule volunteer assignments according to priorities indicated by build-up, tear-down, and PL
*Keep a pool of volunteers available for unplanned ad-hoc tasks.
*Manage the Engelsystem

User:Xu

2024-08-14T18:39:29Z

Xu:

{{UserInfo
|NickName={{PAGENAME}}
|EMail=xu@why2025.org
|Signal=xuwhite.42
|Mastodon=xu@chaos.social
|DECT=2398
|Languages=EN, DE
|HackerSpace=CCC-FFM, Entropia
|Team=Voulunteers (Heaven)
}}
probably working at Heaven (Volunteers), and maintaining the Engelsystem

User:Xu

2024-08-14T18:36:13Z

Xu:

{{UserInfo
|NickName={{PAGENAME}}
|EMail=xu@why2025.org
|DECT=2398
|Languages=EN, DE
|HackerSpace=CCC-FFM, Entropia
|E-Mail=xu@why2025.org
|Team=Voulunteers (Heaven)
}}
probably working at Heaven (Volunteers), and maintaining the Engelsystem

User:Xu

2024-08-14T18:35:48Z

Xu:

{{UserInfo
|NickName={{PAGENAME}}
|E-Mail=xu@why2025.org
|DECT=2398
|Languages=EN, DE
|HackerSpace=CCC-FFM, Entropia
|Team=Voulunteers (Heaven)
}}
probably working at Heaven (Volunteers), and maintaining the Engelsystem

Team:Volunteers

2024-08-14T18:33:13Z

Xu: /* During the event */

{{Team
|Lead=User:Okarin
|Description=Team:Volunteers is responsible for managing the angels during the Event.
|Exclusive team=Yes
|Contact=volunteers@why2025.org
|IRC=why2025-volunteers
|team_is_essential_to_event=Important
|team_has_contact_info=Yes
|team_has_info_on_wiki=No
|team_has_planned_meetings=No
|team_has_enough_people=No
|team_has_drafted_budget=No
|team_has_informed_volunteer_team=Yes
|Projectleiding=User:NancyBeers
}}
==Team Members==

{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Okarin}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Tatiana}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Xu}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:Igel}}
{{TeamMemberEntry|User:MainlyMirte}}

== Projects ==
* [[Heaven]]
* [[Safety_Vests]]
* [[Angel_System]]
* [[Angel_Care]]
* [[Refillable_Water_Bottles]]
* [[Angel_Badges]]
* [[Angel_Shirts]]

==Roles==

===Before the event===
*Indexing orga vacancies
*On-boarding new organization members
*Planning heaven's amenities
*Planning shifts
*Talk to teams about volunteer needs
**Help teams structure their needs in shifts
*Setting up Engelsystem
*Entering shifts in the Engelsystem

===During the event===
*Recruit volunteers
*Optimize on-boarding experience
*Match volunteers to tasks and shifts:
**Provide teams that have things that need doing with people to do it
**Provide people with spare time with things to do
**Try to optimize fun and efficiency by directing people towards tasks that fit their skills
*Schedule volunteers and inform volunteers about what’s expected from them
*Take care of the volunteers
**Provide basic life necessities to volunteers that help out for more than just a few hours, e.g. food and drinks.
**Express gratitude towards volunteers, e.g. by awarding goodies (t-shirts) and good food
*Manage volunteers on site from early build-up to late tear-down
*Schedule volunteer assignments according to priorities indicated by build-up, tear-down, and PL
*Keep a pool of volunteers available for unplanned ad-hoc tasks.
*Manage the Engelsystem

Team:Volunteers

2024-08-14T18:30:50Z

Xu: /* Before the event */

Team:Volunteers

2024-08-14T18:30:18Z

Xu: /* During the event */

Team:Volunteers

2024-08-14T18:29:29Z

Xu: /* Before the event */ adding Engelsystem

Volunteering Guide

2024-08-14T18:22:37Z

Xu: /* How to join the crew */ fix Vacancies

[[File:Volunteers needed.png|frameless|right|Volunteers requested :-)]]

<div style="border: 1ex solid #491d88; background: #fec859; color: #331a38; padding: 1em; width: 60%; font-size: 120%; margin: 1em">
<p>This page describes how to become part of the organization, where you are more than welcome!
<p>Want to do one (or more) things on the field? We call that angel shifts and those will become available closer to the event.
</div>

{{VolunteeringHeader}}
<div style="width: 800px">
Welcome to the '''WHY2025''' volunteering page. This page has the goal to make it easy to understand '''WHY2025''' and start contributing to it. You'll find information on why this event exists, how it is organized, how decisions are made, and how you can contribute.

== Why is there an WHY2025? ==
Ultimately '''WHY2025''' wants to share knowledge about hacking with the world. This helps improve the world by making technology accessible, sharable, and understandable. We believe that sharing this knowledge creates a better world: whatever this knowledge entails. From creative use to technology to actual creation and philosophy. Therefore the range of knowledge and programmed content is very broad, but always leans towards technology and systems.

People that subscribe to this goal found that this can be done in various ways, but the ultimate would be to create a temporary outdoor physical utopia. Also known as a "hacker camp". These are organized '''since 1993'''.

'''WHY2025''' can be described as two things:

# a physical event where people that like hacking / having a deep passion for technology meet and elevate each other.
# a place where knowledge is presented on stages and archived on the internet for anyone to see, use and access.

== How is WHY2025 organized? ==
'''WHY2025''' is organized in various ways. Most importantly it is organized by volunteers who assemble in groups about a specific subject. Legally '''WHY2025''' is organized by the IFCAT foundation: it performs bureaucratic work on request of the organization. The foundation has handed off all operational decisions to volunteers / teams: aka (to be) experts.

=== Organizational Concepts ===

'''WHY2025''' is a fully volunteer-driven event. But where do you start volunteering? Knowing what the structure looks like might help.

A simple view of '''WHY2025''' yields the following six key concepts:

* '''Roles''': description of responsibilities. It is a description of 'what' the team should accomplish, it does not state 'how' something needs to be done. For example: the 'Deco' role states "make the whole event pretty" and "impress visitors with a memorable atmosphere". A decent list of roles can be found here: [[roles]].
* '''Teams''': a group of people that are (or want to become) experts on a certain subject. Some teams are established and also help on other events such as CCC and EMF. Others are new or unique to MCH such as the Safe Harbour. In the end, teams make decisions based on expertise and intent to create a great event. A list of teams can be found here: [[teams]]. A team fulfills one or more roles and consists of many team members.
* '''Team member''': Somebody that is actively doing stuff for a team.
* '''First Contacts''': How a team is organized internally, what communication structure they choose, and how they meet is theirs to decide. To lower the barrier for new volunteers, teams share several contact details such as a first-line contact. A team has one or more first-line contacts.
* '''Angel''': Angels are on-event volunteers that perform mostly designed tasks. They do not need to be fully invested in what a team does or how the organization works. An angel usually works in a predefined timeslot (called a shift). A team can have a need for many angels.
* '''Wiki''': The wiki is the central information repository for organizing '''WHY2025'''. The wiki can be reached at '''wiki.WHY2025.org'''. You'll find a volunteering section as well as many pages aimed at visiting.
* '''Projectleiding''': A team that tracks the health and progress of the entire organization. One team member from the projectleiding(PL) team is connected to any other team to assist the team: navigating the organization, bootstrapping, legal, financial. As the organization matures, the activities of PL dwindle. PL does not determine the color of the bikeshed, '''WHY2025''' is organized team first.
* '''Orga''': a simplification that points to the group of people that organizes this event: angels and/or team members.

== How to join the crew ==

If you want to join a specific [[teams|team]], you can just talk to the people who are already on the team. For many teams, there will be a listed email address. Just send a mail, it doesn't have to be a very long one, something like "Hi, I'd like to join this team; how can I help?" is enough. Please note that some teams might already be fully staffed, and are not looking for more volunteers.

Some teams haven't really started yet, and as such, their team page is pretty empty. Don't let that stop you, because these are the teams that need your help the most. If there's no team email address, that means we're looking for someone to "bootstrap" the team into existence. The list of [[Vacancies]] is a good starting point for those who want to take the lead in getting a team up and running. If you are not sure how to start your desired team you can always contact the assigned member from the [[Team:Projectleiding]].

If you want to join the crew, and don't know which team would suit you, then you can talk to someone from the future [[Team:Volunteers]] and they can help you with that. You can email '''volunteers@WHY2025.org'''. If you don't know what you want to do, feel free to describe what you're good at, so we can find a good match. Or you can join our general orga meetings or any of the [[IRC|IRC channels]] and ask around. Another option is to look at the [[Roles]] page to see which of the responsibilities you find attractive, and then figure out which team does that role.

=== General communication channels ===

If you want to say hi and meet us, there are many opportunities:

* [[IRC]], the old and reliable chat protocol
* [[Mailing lists]], for somewhat more structured communication
* [[Meetings]], both physical and [[Mumble|online]]

The wiki itself (that is, the website you're looking at) is also used for communication. Signing up for teams and meetings is done on the wiki, and sometimes there's a discussion about the contents of pages. Please [[Special:CreateAccount|create an account]] to unlock the page editing feature.

=== Team-specific communication channels ===

Go to the [[Teams]] page, and then the team specific page, to find out where the team members reside.

== How many pieces?  ==

The '''WHY2025''' organization is huge and has numerous moving pieces. It's hard to describe everything in detail, especially because we always fail to come up with good definitions. We're constantly figuring things out and we often find that clear boundaries are impossible in a chaotic organization like ours. When you talk to different people, they'll probably have a different idea of how it works. And they're probably both right, because there are so many valid perspectives. But we can come up with some basic explanations that should give some insight into the "structure" of the organization.

There are two kinds of volunteers, and both are vitally important:

; Angels: visitors who, at the event, sign up to do shifts. This can be anything from bartending to driving a luggage shuttle golf cart, helping with preparing the volunteer food, etcetera. Generally, these tasks are prepared by the orga and come with instructions, so you can just start doing them when you arrive on the job. You can even decide to become an angel at the event itself.
; Orga: the term "orga" has become really broad, and now includes anyone who is involved with the preparations of the event. If you join the crew long before the event starts, then you're orga.

Within the orga, some people maintain direct contact with [[Team:Projectleiding]]. These so-called "first-line contacts", or "team leads", are responsible for a team's budget and decision making. Every team does one or multiple [[roles]]. A role is a collection of responsibilities. This allows us to think of the organization in a more abstract manner.

== How we work ==

Teams are very autonomous, and it's up to the team to decide how they organize themselves. Because of that, different teams may have very different ways of reaching decisions.

There's another page that goes into this subject in more detail: [[way of working]].

== What we have to offer ==

Volunteering for '''WHY2025''' is an unpaid job. Because of the way our event is designed, we're counting on everyone to help out, and that's why we can have affordable tickets instead of expensive corporate entrance fees. This does indeed mean that crew members still have to buy a ticket to be part of the event. (If you can't afford a ticket, there are options for that, but that's not related to whether you're a volunteer.) All volunteers are part of the crew because they want to be part of this organization, not for any financial gains.

We do our best to take care of our fellow crew members. When joining the orga community, or when signing up for angel shifts, you become very important to us, and we want you to feel welcome. We have a crew area where you can hang out and get some rest. Good food is served exclusively for crew members, including angels who get food vouchers for doing a certain amount of shifts. And of course, we'll also hand out physical tokens of appreciation, such as crew t-shirts.

For orga, there are orga meetings and field days, where we shape the details of the upcoming event. These meetings are equal parts hard work and socializing/networking/partying.

== Other forms of participation ==

Being part of the crew is great, but there are more different ways to participate! [[Villages]] are sub-events organized by visitors themselves. Just to be clear: when we talk about crew and orga, we're talking about the main event, not the village crews. If you want to learn more about the villages and how they organize themselves, have a look at their respective pages.

=== Wiki gardening ===

Are you good with wikis? We always need help structuring the information, correcting spelling and grammar, and making things look nicer with appropriate images and such. If you want to help out with these things, please [[Special:CreateAccount|create an account]] and edit away :)

For example, this page has a lot of text and just two images. It's amazing you made it this far!

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2024-08-14T18:06:51Z

Xu: email

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2024-05-22T18:14:42Z

Xu:

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2024-05-22T18:14:12Z

Xu:

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2024-05-22T15:58:06Z

Xu:

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2024-05-22T15:54:49Z

Xu: create user page

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