INDY2024

Please read through posted pages of rules; the Play Space Rules, the Event Rules, and the Photography Rules.

By purchasing a ticket you are agreeing to these Rules.

After reading these rules, if you have further questions, please e-mail the Volunteer Coordinators. If you have questions about the Rules during the event, please see a Coordinator, Moderator, Play Space Monitor or any IMAS Staff Member.

The IMAS Convention staff and Volunteer Coordinators often get questions about "how to volunteer" at the events, and some of these questions are fairly common. Hopefully, this list of volunteer topics will provide you with some useful information... we couldn't do this event without our volunteers, and we hope you find this FAQ list helpful!

Our events would never be successful without our amazing volunteers! Your time and effort helps keep us all safe, and we are so thankful for the responsibility that you have taken on. Please see the questions below, or feel free to contact us if you have a question that is not listed below.

Who can volunteer? How do I sign up to volunteer?
I already bought my ticket... can I still volunteer?
I want to volunteer, but I want to make sure I'm scheduled at the same time as my friend/partner/fuck-toy/etc. OR I can only work during this specific time.
If I volunteer; what is the time commitment?
Can you give me a brief description of what I'll be doing as a volunteer?
I'm new; I don't know if I have enough experience to be a play space monitor?
When will the volunteer schedule be released?
Two hours? What if i get bored?
I may have a time conflict with my volunteer shift, what should I do?
My friend and I are switching volunteer shifts... cool?
I signed up as a door monitor, but I didn't receive a copy of the volunteer schedule?
I signed up to volunteer, but now i can't... what do i do now?
I can't find the answer to my question...

Who can volunteer?
The IMAS Team loves our convention volunteers, and if you're attending the event, you can volunteer to be a part of the event itself!
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How do I sign up to volunteer?
Currently, our volunteer positions include registration, door monitoring and play space monitoring. When you register for the event, you are given the option to sign up as a volunteer at that time.
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I already bought my ticket... can I still volunteer?
If you've already registered and would like to do a volunteer shift, please feel free to contact the event Volunteer Coordinators! Currently, our volunteer positions include registration, door monitoring and play space monitoring. The more the merrier, and they would be happy to add you to the volunteer roster!!
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I want to volunteer, but I want to make sure I'm scheduled at the same time as my friend/partner/fuck-toy/etc. OR I can only work during this specific time.
Great! The volunteer organizers try their best to keep people together when working volunteer shifts. Please contact the Volunteer Coordinators directly with your requests! They do try their best to honor such requests, however it usually happens on a first-come-first-serve basis.
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If I volunteer; what is the time commitment?
For our door monitoring positions, the shifts last two hours. The play space monitor shifts only last one hour. We need door monitors during the entire event, so it's a possibility that your shift will be scheduled during the evening or during classes. Play space monitors will only be scheduled when the play space is open.
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Can you give me a brief description of what I'll be doing as a volunteer?
Our door monitors are placed at specific areas of the event space, and their main duty is to check our attendees for name badges AND wrist bands. If you see someone without one or both items, please kindly request that they wait there with you while you radio/contact a member of staff. Even if they've forgotten their name badge/wristband in their room, an event staff member will escort them back to vanilla space so they can retrieve their IMAS event badge/wristband. This is an integral part of keeping all of us safe!

Play Space Monitors are responsible for being the extended eyes & ears of the event staff. We can't be everywhere at once, and when things get hopping in the dungeon, we need all the help we can get! Your main goal is to ensure all event rules are being adhered to when people are playing. If there is an violation of the rules or you're unsure of something, you should contact an event staff member ASAP!
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I'm new, I don't know if I have enough experience to be a play space monitor?
If you want to be a play space monitor, we encourage you to attend the "Play Space Monitor Meeting", usually an hour prior to the friday night opening remarks. Even new people can make awesome Play Space Monitors! It's also a great way to really familiarize yourself with the event rules.
We do not want our PSMs to actually stop any scene in progress, but we do want to know about it! If you ever see something where you even think it might be a violation of the rules, notify an event staff member or the manager on duty immediately, and we will handle the situation!
Additionally, we encourage all PSMs to attend the Friday night PSM Orientation, hosted by one of our long time staff members. They will happily go over all the rules and expectations for our PSMs!
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When will the volunteer schedule be released?
The volunteer schedule is released typically two weeks prior to the event itself. Selected volunteers will receive the volunteer schedule in the email that was used when they registered for the event. Please keep an eye out on the FetLife group as well - we will post a notice when we've sent out the schedule. The volunteer schedule will be sent to the email with which you registered two weeks prior to the event.
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Two hours? What if i get bored?
A question we get is "Can I read my book/work on crafts/do something to keep me entertained while I'm working as a door monitor?". And ya know.... sitting at the door, bored out of your mind, is a thing! So, at this time, the answer to this question is a tentative yes. While we very much want everyone to enjoy their time at the event and sitting in one spot can be boring, we're also relying on you to help us keep the event and attendees safe! Unfortunately, electronic devices are not permitted which means NO iPads, no smart phones, etc., in accordance with our 'no electronic devices' policy.
Seems like common sense, however, a volunteer position does NOT equate to a two-hour scheduled time slot for "sexy times". Don't "screw around" with our attendees' safety... pay attention!
If you are distracted from checking all wrist bands, badges, or not informing us if something goes wrong, we will ask you to put away whatever is distracting you. (In other words, pay attention to what's going on around you!)
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I may have a time conflict with my volunteer shift, what should I do?
If you are acting as a demo-volunteer for a class or will not be at the event until a certain time, please notify the Volunteer Coordinator as soon as possible. Once the volunteer schedule is sent out, it's a little more difficult to make changes.
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My friend and I are switching volunteer shifts... cool?
No problem; just be please be sure to notify the event volunteer coordinators of the change, otherwise you and/or your friend may not get credit for showing up to your shifts!!
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I signed up as a door monitor, but I didn't receive a copy of the volunteer schedule?
One of two things may have happened: either your spam filter swallowed up our email, or you weren't scheduled. Please contact the event Volunteer Coordinator to find out which it is! The event organizers get so many door monitor volunteers, that sometimes not everyone can be scheduled! If you haven't been scheduled at a door monitor position, there are still volunteer options for you, though! We always need more play space monitor volunteers. Additionally, it's handy if the volunteer organizers have a list of names of people on hand who are interested in volunteering, just in case someone doesn't show up to their shift!
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I signed up to volunteer, but now i can't... what do i do now?
If you end up not being able to volunteer, please let the volunteer coordinator know as soon as you can possibly do so. However, if you DO decide that you want to volunteer even though you didn't sign up when you registered, let the volunteer coordinator know that as well! Not only do our volunteers help us make these events as wonderful as they are, volunteering will also give you early access to ticket sales for our next event. A big perk of volunteering for these events is that access - early tickets means you're far more likely to get a room at the event hotel!
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I can't find the answer to my question on this list...Help!
No worries! We can answer your questions about the event or get you an answer if we don't know. If you can't find the answer, chances are, other attendees to the event may also want that answer, but might be too shy to ask the question. The answer may be available on the FetLife group page for the FetLife IMAS2024 Attendees Group, or might have been asked in the past and we left the answer off the list. Send your question to the IMAS staff and we'll do our best to find that answer.
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