Dustin, To help you find something interesting for you, can I ask you to write down some thoughts on what you'd need to know to find something to do.
After that, look at http://www.mysociety.org/helpus/ Then I suggest writing a short change-suggestion for the above page :-). I'm asking this because I suspect it didn't fulfull your needs. It didn't for me, when I found it some month after joing the mail list, but I'm too lazy to get around figuring out how to improve it... Probably the helpus page could be made more visible, also from other sites Contact, FAQ and similar pages. Link texts like "Developers wanted" or "Join a project"? Or there might be reasons for not trying to bind up every person with a whish to somehow help. Now now specific to you Dustin; as a finance guy with knowledge of C/C++, do you perhaps have a smart/mobile phone with GPS? You should have a look at the FixMyStreet mobile software. There might be one that works on your model, or you could help figuring out how to make one of them compatible with your phone. Cheers /Simon B. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Dustin McGivern <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I wanted to get in touch to see if you had any projects I could get > involved with? I love the stuff that mysociety does and I have some free > time so I thought I’d see if there was any way I could join in. > > > > I can’t claim to be a expert web developer or anything, but I’ve done the > odd bit of programming in C/C++, VBA, SQL and I’m pretty IT literate in > general. Also happy to learn some new things if that will make me more > useful. I’ve spent the last few years as a finance director and as an > analyst in the finance industry so I’m not scared of business-type stuff if > that’s what’s needed. Happy to give anything a go, so speak up if you have > anything I can help with. > > > > Thanks, > > Dustin >
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