On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Jono Bacon <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/23/2009 08:11 AM, Martin Owens wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I was curious about a plea(1) recently to get more people doing > > community service in the USA: > > > > So I went ahead and checked out the website(2), and they seem to have > > some fair good ideas and some tools that it might be worth either > > emulating, learning(3) about or using (depending on where you are). > > > > I've created a group for my LoCo to test things and get a feel for what > > they're doing and if we can attract service orientated people who might > > not be necessaryly technically inclined (by may wish to become so). > > > > 1. Plea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZaBHgj6jYE > > 2. Website: http://www.serve.gov/ > > 3. Ideas: http://www.serve.gov/toolkits/general/index.asp > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > > Sounds interesting. Other US teams checked into this? > > Jono > The Obamas didn't invent Community Organizing nor Social Networks but they sure know how.
http://www.nfg.org/cotb/ http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/ As a Virginian I took special interest in this article - http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/state_regional_govtpolitics/article/VITA24_20090623-222806/275930/ And I sure could use a plan to inspire ubuntu-us-va. Jim -- http://ls.net http://drupal.ls.net
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