Volunteering process

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Streamlining the volunteering process

Because right now getting involved is awful - there is no clear path to getting involved with anything (except possibly Support-Gang).

The wiki

What does it facilitate now?

• spread organizational vision
• support others
• start programs (sort of)
• find collaborators (theoretically)
• find content and information
• contribute content
• review content
• edit/organize pages
• donating XOs
• Support FAQs
• apply for XOs
• repair FAQs

Other points:

• Main page is scary for newcomers
• things exist now, but are hard to find

What would we like it to do in the future?

• more on how to start programs
• "How do I get involved?"
• (actually) find collaborators
• find help (repair, support, advice)
  • thorough guides, documentation, contact people
• connect with kids and educators
• find projects to work on
  • something easier, like Pootle
  • project database?

People

What kinds of people want to get involved?

• college students
• educators
  • k-12
    • younger kids -> pilots?
    • older kids -> pilots, content, partnering/support with pilots
  • college/university
    • chapters
    • content
    • partner with pilots
    • repairs
    • support
    • internships?
• parents in relation to their kids
  • Review Squad (is this still alive?)
  • pilots
  • local user groups
• G1G1 donors
  • support
  • help
  • repairs
  • donate
  • contribute?
• individual contributors
  • What can I do to help?
  • How can I find others like me?
• organizations
  • How can we help?
  • How can you help us?
• deployments
  • How can kids in deployed areas get involved?
  • How can you help us?

How can people contribute now?

Content

• (art)
• (photography)
• write Activities
• documentation (how tos)
• hardware

Organizations

• university chapters
• repair centers
• regional user groups
• pilots and test schools

Infrastructure

• testing
• support
• wiki maintenance
• forums
• news

Money

• donate $$
• G1G1

In the future?

Give

Lower activation energy for all of this!

• Content
  • art
  • code
  • hardware
  • documentation and manuals
• Support and Testing
  • documentation and manuals
• Start a group
• broader OLPC community

Get

• Support (help)
  • manuals
  • forums
• Repairs
  • manuals
  • people
• Community
  • forums
  • people
  • mailing lists
• Information
  • news
  • specs
  • data and results