On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Tim McNamara <paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote: > Sugar Labs appears to be eligible to part of the United Nations Online > Volunteering[1]. There is a pool of about 200,000 registered volunteers, I'm > not sure how many are software developers - most projects are vanity website > development. Sugar would be an interesting > > This may be a good way to tap into a wide pool of volunteers, especially > from outside of USA/Europe, but would incur an administration penalty. > Perhaps a discussion to be had at SLOBs level, would there be support for > Sugar Labs to look into joining?
FWIW, I am also looking into a connection with InterAction (http://www.interaction.org/), which has close working relationship with the UN. -walter > > Organizations provide volunteer opportunities in the form of discrete > project briefs. I think this would be best suited to translation tasks, with > an brief per Activity. > > Regards, Tim. > > > [1] > http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/org/resources/organization_criteria.html > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep