Angels at Chaos – about volunteering and fitting in
After three years of involuntary break the Chaos Computer Club finally could invite to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3) in Hamburg at the CCH. I was not attending but I was as part of the leadership of a team involved in some preparation. In the Call for Angels (volunteers helping out running the event) we asked for new people to join our team. As expected we got some emails from several folks asking to join. But we got more: Emails with a CV and a motivation letter. Those maps were by people attending the Congress for the first time and eagerly trying to contribute to the community. With some of them I wrote emails back and forth because I wanted to understand why they sent emails which read like applying for a job. After all these conversations I wrote the present text in which I try to lay out my understanding of volunteer work at a CCC event. The text could work as a general text for first time volunteers at an event from the wider Chaos family.
