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published by lplotnick on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 01:26

Volunteer For ISCRAM

 

Help ISCRAM by volunteering for one of the activities listed below.  ISCRAM thrives and grows through the efforts of its members and supporters. Click on a volunteer opportunity to find out more about the activity including whom to contact.   Please be an active part of our vibrant community.  If you wish to volunteer in a way not listed below please contact linda.plotnick.iscram@gmail.com.

 

 

Get us organized!

  • Sponsoring Committee: Events
  • Description: Organize and Develop the Events Site

Work with us on the major events, and help us shape the future of ISCRAM conferences.

Currently, we have many supporting documents and guides, which are currently dispersed in on various sites, and in various forms (pdf, google doc). We are looking for someone who is knowledgeable in google docs/google sites to help us set up and organize a platform for knowledge management in a better way – and of course, you are more than welcome to help us work on the content! 

  • Time Commitment: An initial effort of 4-6 hours, followed by an optional support role of an hour each month.
  • Association Membership Required? No
  • Contact: Tina Comes at tina.comes@uia.no

 

Ways ahead – How Can We Make our Events Better?

·        Sponsoring Committee: Events

·        Description: Set Up and Manage a Google Group to Discuss Track Chairs’ Needs and Shape Future Conferences
Work with us on the major events, and help us shape the future of ISCRAM conferences.

Track Chairs are the back bones of all ISCRAM Conferences, and it is our aim to learn from the past ISCRAM experiences to help us organise better conferences, provide better support and guidelines, and to collect new creative ideas. To this end, we would like to establish a new google group for Track Chairs that should be regularly maintained and updated, including information about upcoming conferences etc.

·        Time Commitment: An initial effort of about 15 hours, followed by an optional support role of about two hours per month.

·        Association Membership Required? No

·        Contact: Tina Comes at tina.comes@uia.no

 

Ways ahead – How to Bridge the Gap(s)?

  • Sponsoring Committee: Events
  • Description: Set Up and Manage Google Group to Discuss Practitioners’ Needs and ways to Address These Needs
    Practitioner involvement has always been one of the major themes of ISCRAM. Work with us on actually getting the discussion between research and practice going! The google group you will set up will help us elicit practitioners’ needs, identify the most important challenges and find ways how ISCRAM researchers can work on this problem. This will be the first step to training course, tutorials coding camps, or workshops in association with future conferences. The google group will require regular maintenance, updates, and interaction with practitioners and researchers.
  • Time Commitment: An initial effort of about 15 hours, followed by an optional support role of about five hours per month.
  • Association Membership Required? No
  • Contact: Tina Comes at tina.comes@uia.no

 

Get the word out - ‘ISCRAM live’ task force

·        Sponsoring Committee: Events

·        Description: Coordinate and Organise Various Communication Channels for a Better ISCRAM live Experience
ISCRAM live is key to the growth of our community - allowing people from all over the world to participate in our events. We get a lot of respect and kudos for “dog-fooding” - we don’t just talk about how technology should be used in dynamic events, we actually use them. Until now, ISCRAM live has been organised as and when needed, posts on facebook, youtube, flickr and tweets have always been a part of our conferences, but we need someone to lead an effort to develop a plan for how we support event organizers in making ISCRAM Live a standard part of all of our major events. Programming skills are not necessary.

·        Time Commitment: An initial effort of 15-20 hours, followed by an optional support role of a few hours per month, and more time is typically needed before and during an event (conference, Summer School, etc.)

·        Association Membership Required? No

·        Contact: Tina Comes at tina.comes@uia.no

Share your ISCRAM experience!

·        Sponsoring Committee: Events

·        Description: Report about ISCRAM Events on our Website and Social Media Platforms

ISCRAM is very well known for its events (conferences, Summer school, etc). To attract more participants and to foster exchange and discussions beyond ISCRAM events, we need a volunteer to organise, maintain and populate the ‘Events’ section of the new ISCRAM website, on facebook and linked in. Programming skills are not necessary.

·        Time Commitment: A few hours per month

·        Association Membership Required? Yes

Contact: Tina Comes at tina.comes@uia.no

Newsletter -- a range of subeditor roles.

  • Committee Sponsoring: Marketing and Communications
  • Description: interviews of some of the established figures in ISCRAM list of recent publications,etc.
  • Time Commitment: About 6 hours a quarter
  • Contact: Simon French at simon.french@warwick.ac.uk

Website Development

  • Description: The new website (based on Drupal 7) went online in April 2012. This website provides only basic features, but any number is conceivable. The aim here is to select and implement (hopefully using existing modules) extensions, such as mailing list support, or membership management. - Experience with Drupal would be desirable
  • Time Commitment: variable
  • Contact: Gerhard Wickler at gwickler@gmail.com

Help develop and design “About ISCRAM” brochure

  • Sponsoring Committee: Marketing and Communications
  • Description: Help develop and define ISCRAM business and marketing materials, specifically aiming at a tri-fold brochure.
  • Time Commitment: 2 hours/week (average) for two months
  • Association Membership Required? No
  • Contact: Simon French at simon.french@warwick.ac.uk

Collect, analyze and organize past conference statistics

  • Sponsoring Committee: PASC
  • Description: Consolidate numerical data related to past events, such as number of attendees, submissions, etc., and perform simple numeric analysis (e.g., number of registrations relative to conference dates).
  • Time Commitment: 10-15 hours
  • Association Membership Required? No
  • Contact: Tim Grant at tim.grant.iscram@gmail.com

Help develop and document ISCRAM conference and event planning procedures and best practices

  • Sponsoring Committee: PASC
  • Description: In order to ensure consistency and uniformity between events (conferences, etc) we need a volunteer that will help to develop and document ISCRAM events (including conferences so that future event organisers have the necessary resources to help them. As an example, some things have worked well in past events and these should be documented to pass on previous experiences.
  • Time Commitment: 2 hours/week (average) for two months, then a lot less when documents and procedures are in place
  • Association Membership Required? Involvement in organizing an ISCRAM (or other) conference would be a help
  • Contact: Tim Grant at tim.grant.iscram@gmail.com

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