Vacancies

Want to help?

MCH2022 is a "Do it Yourself" kind of event, matching the hacker spirit.

If you want to help, you can email volunteering@mch2021.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.

Current vacancies for MCH2022

These are teams in need of team leads and team members.

Infodesk Why You want to make camp life easier for visitors, for example by making it trivial to find correct information at the same locations. What Help with requesting and authoring blog posts, setting up/running the info desk, planning angel shifts for said desk. Before the event: Answering mails to the info address, gathering answers to questions, adding / updating frequently asked questions on the wiki, help authoring the booklet. Planning the infodesk. During the event: support the info-desk and info-angels on site, make it a nice place to be. Who Looking for people for most tasks, or a combination of them. For example someone to help the person setting up the info desk, or a booklet creator, or people that answer the info mailbox and update the same info on the wiki. Contact If you are interested in helping out, contact Boekenwuurm at boekenwuurm@mch2022.org or Stitch at stitch@mch2022.org, or phone: 06 1342 5622

Parking leads/volunteers The insane parking lot at SHA Why You want people to arrive and depart safely at the event. Make sure the cars can rest safely. What Create a really nice parking team tent that supports the team members with all kinds of nice facilities. Directing cars on the field Managing the parking angels and/or hired traffic guides Who Two to three people that can prepare for a good parking experience. Possibly automating/offloading as much as possible so it becomes an absolute minimal amount of work. Contact If you are interested in helping out, contact Stitch at stitch@mch2022.org, or phone: 06 1342 5622

Declarations/reimbursements Why You want teams to be able to have the least amount of overhead when spending money on their projects What Triage declaration requests, prepare money transfers for easy payout Who One person that is able to work with procedures and structure Contact If you are interested in helping out, contact Henry at henry@mch2022.org

Sponsor contracting and guidance Why You want the event to be supported by the right companies, and help them out in visiting the event. What Help finalizing sponsor contracts, shepherd the sponsor so they can have the most out of the event Who One person that is able to work with diligence, professionally and be supportive Contact If you are interested in helping out, contact Tom at tom@mch2022.org

Buildup and/or teardown coordinator Why You want the buildup and teardown to go as smooth as possible, making every bodies live easier What Managing supplier sequence, (re-)scheduling them, setup the correct order for teardown Who One person that is able to work with diligence, professionally and be supportive. Plans / inspiration from previous events is available, but you can make something yourself if you want to. Contact If you are interested in helping out, contact Stitch at stitch@mch2022.org

Driver for shopping sprees and/or deliveries from-to site Why You want to make sure everyone has what they need! What Buy ridiculous amounts of things and get stuff to the right location well before the event, _and/or_ drive small lorry's from and to the site during buildup and teardown Who One person with a driving license for each of these roles would be best Contact If you are interested in helping out, contact Stitch at stitch@mch2022.org

Waste Manager and trash YEET-er Why You like a clean camp site and like to unburden people at the site What Rent waste disposal facilities at a vendor, blueprint available if needed Request and roster angels for shifts Provide garbage disposal facilities (bins) for crew and visitors Minimize the amount of inconvenience caused by trash Have garbage collected for compacting and moving off site by vendor trucks Provide instructions on how to deal with (specific kinds of) garbage Provide garbage bags for visitors (through entrance and info-desk) Handle communication with garbage disposal company Collect bottles from all around the campsite Sort bottles in crates Dispose of alien bottles (not sold at bar) properly Who 3 people to manage day to day operations of trash yeet-ing, 14 angels for the heavy lifting Contact If you are interested in helping out, contact Stitch at stitch@mch2022.org

Other, older Vacancies

Role / Team	Description
Team:Shuttle, 3 people needed (including team leader)	Plan and coordinate angels and yourself for shuttle runs from and to Nijkerk/Zeewolde and get luggage from and to the parking lot. Train shuttle Provide a shuttle service between the train station and event venue for visitors who travel by train. Schedule driving shifts Drive according to a schedule during busy hours Publish the shuttle schedule on the wiki Drive on-demand when it’s quieter; be reachable by phone for receiving requests Post phone numbers in relevant places Luggage shuttle Transport visitors luggage (note that not everybody wants to use this service) Establish pick-up points at parking and wherever the train shuttle drops people off. Establish drop-off points that are shielded from rain, where people can have their luggage delivered. Deliver things at the correct drop-off point. At the end of the event, reverse operations: drop-off points become pick-up points and vice versa Make the pick-up and drop-off points visible, and shield them from rain.
Team:Villages	Help villages (self-organized sub-events and/or people camping together) establish their presence Write instructions for villages on how and where to send special requests (e.g. Power, NOC, On-Site), and how to integrate their village with the main event Coordinate/plan which village goes where Seek out villages with incomplete or vague wiki pages and encourage them to add more concrete information Check whether villages adhere to imposed restrictions Publish village locations on the map once this stabilizes Preempt possible nuisance issues (e.g. loud music) and communicate and design accordingly Be infodesk-like, but for village-specific needs.
Team:Horeca	Two people needed! Contact and ask for offers
Team:Huisstijl	designer for t-shirts, stickers, look of booklet and more!
Team:Moebelhaus, 2 persons	Provide tents, chairs, and tables for villages. Set prices and arrange pre-sales via the ticket shop Have a physical place where people can pick up and return the goods they have ordered Supervise that people only take what they paid for. Ask On-Site to deliver large orders directly to villages
Team:Parking	Determine the layout for the visitor and crew parking lots Validate parking tickets Micro-manage people who are parking their cars, to optimize usage of the available space Provide optimized arrival and departure flows Ensure the parking does not turn into a muddpool Provide temporary parking space (“K+R”) for people who are dropped off by friends, family, or taxi.
Team:Tickets and entrance, 1 people needed, several angels teamlead / on field ticket-angel manager
Team:Badge, 5 people	Sponsor communications: reach out to the sponsors we need to badge the badge a reality Hardware sourcing: help us ping our production partner to find the right parts for the badge PCB art: design the bestest look and feel for the badge! Delivery manager: guide the production of the badges, the bags to put them in, the sweatshops to package them, and ensure we have something cool to give to our visitors
Team:Clothing production, 2 Creative people	Design and order clothing items Organize the prodiction Maintain the relation with the producers Organize the distribution Contact us at jeroen@ifcat.org
Team:Badge, web developer(s)	The Hatchery is in need of a make-over. Hatchery needs support for standalone firmware apps (next to already supported µPython apps). The badge will get WebUSB support, and how cool would it be if you could have a live IDE for both the ESP and FPGA in your browser?
Team:Badge, firmware developers	We need people to build: Main firmware (in C) for the ESP32, including GUI. Better firmware for the RP2040, which acts as the USB interface and an I/O-expander on the badge.
Team:Badge, app developers	For useful or cool little apps to ship with the badge, like: Interactive talk schedule Apps that make use of the sensors on the badge (air quality, temp, humidity, and a magic location sensor) Apps that make use of the ICE40 FPGA on the badge Something to interact with connected decoration on the terrain
Team:NOC	Coordinator for NOC helpdesk Coordinator for on-site datacenters

Todo: automated vacancies

This is a list of vacancies for the MCH2022 organization. We're still in the process of gathering all Team Vacancies and adding them here, so the overview is not complete yet!