Festival2011/Volunteer

Some working lines and experiences from Barcelona Festival 2010 A few general things:

• think at volunteers as at Festival's core community;
• volunteers should feel empowered and identified w/ Mozilla's (and Festival's) mission;
• pre-event and post-event volunteers engagement - volunteers are the people keeping-up the post-festival momentum;
• volunteers are building part of the Festival, offers an updated documentation and howto's;

Pre-event engagement

• Regular monthly MozPubs (around a specific topic? open video / augmented reality, (open) data journalism and challenges etc.);
• A few blogposts (but mostly encourage others to write about the Festival topic);
• 2 - 3 weeks before, start regular meet-ups w/ volunteers, establish tasks and priorities together;
• help making creative swag, materials. Share "build a Festival experience" w/ participants through materials.

During Festival

• 1 or 2 volunteers per tent (folks should feel free to choose the tent they are interested in). Volunteer and participate in the same time.
• Live-blogging (every tent could have one or more bloggers. Also, bloggers should feel comfortable w/ the activity/topic).
• Document sessions.

After Festival

• Participate actively to post-festival feedback and Drumbeat calls;
• Build a backpack (how to make a Festival document);
• Keep-up the momentum. Help facilitating post-Festival local events (Hackasaurus Hack Jams, Buttercamps, etc.).
• Build a local community of web makers. Inspire others to join the movement.

Those were the phases we worked through in Barcelona. Now, the challenge for London would be to improve this, accelerate processes and grow the number of active volunteers (especially post Festival).