[Fsf-friends] RE: Writing a text book for Free Software

[Andrea Goetzke]

Dear Frederick, dear Baiju,

this is an assignment that could definitely be posted as an online
volunteering assignment into our website.
A colleague of mine recently recruited online volunteer advisors on Linux
questions for our ICT volunteer programme (UNITeS). Those online volunteers
answered Linux related questions of the ICT volunteers that were placed into
projects via UNITeS, and that are linked up via an online community. She had
mentioned that she got some highly qualified people involved into this
assignment.

- In order to post your assignment into our website, and recruit online
volunteers from all over the world, you need to create a NetAid account
first.
You do this here: http://www.netaid.org/membership/join.pt.

- After that you need to register your organization, i.e. "Create a Group".
You find the registration forms either in your personal page (My NetAid,
that you get after creating your account) in the right column ("Create a
Group"), or here:
http://www.netaid.org/groups/create_group_instructions.pt?ctx=member_home
(you can only access this link after creating your account).

- Please indicate in your registration that you are registering because you
would like to post an online volunteering assignment. This triggers an alert
to us, so that we can review your registration. If everything is ok, we
publish your assignment the next day.

- I encourage you to read all the material about Online Volunteering that we
offer in our website: http://www.netaid.org/ov/index_html, especially the
section for online volunteer host organizations
http://www.netaid.org/ov/hosts/index_html, and the FAQ
http://www.netaid.org/ov/faqs/index_html.

Please don't hesitate to contact me for any questions, concerns, suggestions
etc.

Best regards,

Andrea Goetzke


-----Original Message-----
From: Frederick Noronha [mailto:fred@bytesforall.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:20 PM
To: baiju@sdf.lonestar.org; fsf-friends@gnu.org.in
Cc: Andrea Goetzke
Subject: Writing a text book for Free Software


o Baiju M <baiju@sdf.lonestar.org> reports from the South Indian state of
Kerala (November 2002, email): "We have required volunteers for textbook
preperation in Kerala (9th standard). Please see:
http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-edu/2002-November/000091.html Its very
urgent, please come forward to volunteer."
- - - - - - - - 

Baiju, I wonder if this could be a possible activity for NetAid, run by
the UN volunteers. What do you feel Andrea? It's possible that someone out
there has good GNU/Linux skills, the creativity and the time? A worthy
cause indeed. FN
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>From Andrea.Goetzke@unvolunteers.org Thu Nov 14 00:45:54 2002

> Dear Frederick,
> nice to meet you.
> I think the tasks you are looking for volunteers for can be performed well
> by online volunteers, i.e. volunteers who engage in the task from anywhere
> in the world, through the Internet.
> Online volunteers can do research for you on Indian language solutions for
> computing, and maybe you also find an expert who can advise you on how to
> implement/programme Indian language solutions.
> Also, online volunteers are perfectly suited to research GNU/Linux groups
> and to reach out to them, and tell them about your group, build links,
> maybe build and moderate online discussions etc.
>
> You can find online volunteers by publishing your needs in the Online
> Volunteering section of the NetAid website (http://www.netaid.org/ov).
> All published assignments can be found via a search engine. The number of
> people looking for volunteering assignments exceeds the number of
> organizations looking for volunteers, so the probability that you findgood
> candidates quickly is quite high.
> We don't pre-select applications,but the applications are emaileddirectly
> to you, i.e. the organization that posted an assignment.
>
> In order to publish your online volunteering assignments in the NetAid
> site, you need to:
> - First register with NetAid (in the "Join" section).
> - As a registered member you have your personal "My NetAid" page. Fromhere
> you can register the organization that you would like to publish
> assignments for. You need to post assignments on behalf of an officially
> registered non-profit organization. You register your organization via
> "Create A Group" from your "My NetAid" page.
> - As a registered, and vetted (this just takes 1-2 days) organization you
> can go ahead and publish your online volunteering assignment in the site.
>
> If you would like a volunteer to get involved with you on-site, there are
> possibilities as well. But how I understand your question, I think "online
> volunteering" is the first option to try. Let me know if you are more
> interested in the on-site alternative.
>
> Please also let me know if you have more questions. To get a good sense of
> what Online Volunteering means in practice, and to read good examples, I
> suggest you browse our site: http://www.netaid.org/ov.
>
> Greetings from Bonn,
>
> Andrea
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick Noronha [mailto:fred@bytesforall.org]
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 8:05 PM
> To: andrea.goetzke@unvolunteers.org
> Subject: From India
>
> Hi Andrea Goetzke,
>
> Could you find volunteers who could (i) help us take further plans to find
> Indian language solutions for computing (ii) help build links between
> GNU/Linux groups in India and abroad? ...