Hi mike I will make this a high priority tonight or tomorow morning
Any thoughts on local (ie in a school opportuntoes) bs sugar labs as a global cyber entity? Sent from my iPhone Caroline Meeks 617-395-7966 On Jun 20, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Mike Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Caroline, > > I do think you should be the person (or a backup) who registers Sugar > Labs as an organization in these systems. Since VolunteerMatch is the > largest opportunity aggregator in the U.S. with 57,000+ listings, I > recommend getting set up there with a free account. You'll need SL's > mission statement and EIN (tax I.D.). It takes 24 hours to get > approved. If you have time, I'd try to submit tonight to capitalize on > the big traffic spike that will happen from all the announcements next > week at the National Conference on Volunteerism and Service. A really > nice feature of VounteerMatch is that volunteers register too and > profile themselves. If there are people who have expressed in interest > in education and technology, they will be sent an email alert about > any opportunities posted by SL. Serve.gov and AllforGood do not offer > this and because they are new, it's unclear who does the reviewing or > how long it takes to get listed. AllforGood powers Serve.gov and pulls > in from VolunteerMatch anyway. > > Here is a good set of basic guidelines for writing volunteer > opportunity positions. > > http://nonprofit.about.com/od/volunteers/ht/voldespos.htm > http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/practices/17759 > > Mike > > > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Caroline Meeks<[email protected] > > wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> I want to list volunteer opportunities to help at the Gardner >> elementary and >> Lilla Fredrick Middle School. Both these schools will be working >> with Sugar >> this summer and there are opportunities to work directly with the >> kids and >> Sugar as well as providing technical, writing, marketing and >> fundraising >> support. >> >> Let me know when you figure out how I should do this and how we >> should tie >> all the various local projects into the overall Sugar Labs umbrella. >> >> Thanks, >> Caroline >> >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Mike Lee <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm on it. It just so happens I am working directly with this Google >>> team here in D.C. as part of my day job. Also, one of our Learning >>> Club members is an engineer on the project. It was a major deal that >>> AllforGood.org powers the administartion's Serve.gov site. More >>> announcements coming next week. Small world... >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Sean DALY<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=Education&num=10&start=1&vol_loc=11567&timeperiod=everything&cache=1 >>>> >>>> A good place for Local Labs in the USA to list? >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> >> >> -- >> Caroline Meeks >> Solution Grove >> [email protected] >> >> 617-500-3488 - Office >> 505-213-3268 - Fax >> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
