I guess there were certain features that attracted me to mysociety; non partisan, focused on building tools rather than just campaigning and advocacy. That said, I'd be happy to hear about any other projects that are in a similar vein where I might be useful.
Dustin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Wardman Sent: 17 March 2009 23:16 To: mySociety public, general purpose discussion list Subject: Re: [mySociety:public] anyone need a volunteer? Hi Dustin Is this for MySociety specifically or can anyone pitch for your favours? Serious question. Matt On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Simon Bohlin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
