"those companies generously donate their employees' time to OO.o. All
others are purely
unpaid volunteers."
I definitely agree with the generous donation part.
I want to say something about how special "purely unpaid volunteers"
are. Just to reinforce this very positive statement.
Many people have discovered during this recession that money has
absolutely no affect on their skills or who they are.
Money says nothing about how intelligent you are, how capable you are,
and how good you are. Money just says you have a job and you are
getting paid to contribute to society.
Having a job and making money doesn't make you a better person.
Truth be known, our society is running at very low capacity. We have in
some ways a very inefficient economy.
The biggest resource on this planet is people. Everyone is intelligent
and capable. For a company to restrict its ability to accomplish
projects only to people it can afford to hire is to severely restrict
that company's ability to accomplish its projects. There are huge
numbers of people who want to be involved to help solve problems and
complete projects. To limit a company's ability by only depending on
people it can pay is to restrict it's ability to move ahead very rapidly.
The other restriction we are overcoming is the ability to organize
people from a variety of backgrounds to work efficiently together on a
project. This project is an example of how resources are beginning to
develop to organize a variety of people and their talents and direct
them towards a common goal. This project is the future. This project
begins to tap a huge resource of very capable and talented people.
Now we must find some way to free people from being concerned about
survival. We must remove the fear of not having a place to live or food
to eat. Make it so people are no longer concerned about their survival
and instead, can concentrate on giving the best of what they have to
society.
Science has proven the health costs to society of people from poverty is
far higher than that of either obesity or smoking. Over 80 percent of
the people in jail come from poverty. It is far more expensive to
society to sustain poverty than it is to eliminate it. The costs of the
social problems arising from poverty are immense.
Let's build a world which runs efficiently for a change. There are huge
numbers of untapped resources available.
Let's build a world where everyone is involved. Let's build a world
where everyone is able to contribute their talent and abilities to the
best of their ability without being afraid of not having food to eat or
a place to live. Let's look after each other.
Let's build the kind of world we all want to live in.
Alan
On 3/3/2010 11:05 PM, Claire Wood wrote:
Thanks for the replies. It is something that is relevant in the UK, luckily
once I explained the situation, the nice man at the dole office let me off,
but it might not be the same for someone else so maybe a standard letter
when you initially sign up would be a good idea. Then everyone knows where
they stand.
certainly did and I'm sure anyone else in the UK would find it equally
funny. They wanted me to get a form signed by OOo to say that I was a
volunteer. (You have to declare that you're working voluntarily and not
getting paid so that it doesn't affect your benefits while you're
searching for work.) I had to explain that it couldn't be done because
the person that would need to sign it was probably on the other side of
the world! It served to show that systems in this country need to be
dragged into the 21st century and account for people using the internet.
Hm, are they fine with an e-mail or a fax? I don't know you very well,
so I can't write anything, but if someone asks me for a reference, and I
know him from my work within OOo, I'm happy to write a few lines.
However, of course, no official organization stands behind that, so I
don't know if they would accept it.
Florian
This sounds like something the Council might want to handle, with a
boilerplate letter, (assuming I have the facts straight) something like:
Subject: Unpaid volunteers
OO.o employs and pays no one. The few people who do get paid for their work
here are employed by sponsoring companies, such as Oracle; those companies
generously donate their employees' time to OO.o. All others are purely
unpaid volunteers.
(This to go out over the chairman's signature, as email or fax.)
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/tj/
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