[Rubyforchange-talk] introduction

[Matthew Cowley]

Evan David Light wrote:
> Matt (a.k.a Madcowley ;-) ), welcome!
>   
Thanks!  Hi Evan.  Good to see you here.
> Someone posited a similar notion.  Is it essentially the same as  
> volunteermatch.org?  We don't want to reinvent the wheel, right?
>   
Hmm....that's not at all what I meant.  My site would be blue, with a 
different font.

Ok, actually that's pretty much what I had in mind. 

The sites I was thinking of that aren't quite right and/or expensive are 
airset and shiftboard..they're more geared to a single group and a 
closed set of participants, with an interactive calendar.   I'll take a 
closer look at volunteermatch and see if I come up with any brilliant 
alternative ideas for it..



> On Aug 17, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Matthew Cowley wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I missed the ruby hoedown, but just found out about this group.   
>> Most of
>> my work these days is for non-profits, so I'm very interested in  
>> what we
>> could do.
>>
>> I sent a note about a project idea to Chad; he pointed me here, so  
>> here
>> it is in group form:
>>
>> Here's one idea for a group project:  a kind of centralized volunteer
>>     
>>> sign-up site.  The community radio station I work for (like many
>>> nonprofits) runs mostly on volunteer power, and at the moment  
>>> scheduling
>>> is pretty much phone calls and paper sheets.  There are a couple of
>>> online apps out there, but none of them are really great, and some  
>>> are
>>> expensive.   They're also specific to the organization; if you're
>>> signing up to help with one group, you wouldn't know about needs that
>>> another group has.
>>>
>>> What I'm thinking is a site where lots of non-profits could register,
>>> with some description and location info etc, and post calls for
>>> volunteers.  Potential volunteers could scan the listings by location
>>> and date, and filter by either area of interest or even specific  
>>> groups
>>> (so if you're only interested in working with group X theirs are the
>>> only listings you see), and sign up to help -- which would notify the
>>> coordinator at the nonprofit.
>>>
>>> Kind of sketchy and rambling I know, but if it sounds interesting I
>>> could flesh out the ideas a bit.
>>>       
>> thanks,
>> matt
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