[Rubyforchange-talk] volunteer scheduling

[Matthew Cowley]

Quick update on the volunteer-scheduling task.  Turns out our volunteer 
coordinator needs something more powerful and finely-manageable than the 
volunteermatch site.  That site was what I was thinking of, but she 
needs to be able to do things like:
-- block individuals from signing up;
-- send emails to a subset of the volunteer group, based on 
location/skills/availability/etc
-- get reports on volunteer hours on several levels
-- automatically change a volunteer's status based on hours worked
etc

So, I'm going to write something custom for our app, based around the 
restful authentication stuff.  I'm gonna see what I can do to make it 
extractable into a plugin for other sites, as it's probably a common 
need.  Maybe when it's closer to running I'll solicit some 
code-review/pluginizable eyes.

We looked at something called ShiftBoard, which actually looks really 
cool, but for some reason they didn't like it.

matt