discuss: Finding Volunteers, VolunteerMatch ?
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Finding Volunteers, VolunteerMatch ?
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
29 Apr 2007 03:42:07 -0000
Message-Id: <20070429033816.GC5461@davespc>
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:51:41AM -0400, Omari Norman wrote:
> Great idea. I'd skip the Volunteer Match, though. That would be a better
> place to search for potential Linux converts, but not such a good place
> to find people who will be qualified to write about Linux.
VolunteerMatch gets millions of visitors per year and I think that
thousands of such visitors could write about Linux if they first put
some time into studying it and using it (if they didn't already
know/use it). However, many of those potential volunteers wouldn't
find us even if we were on VolunteerMatch, and others that are
qualified wouldn't want to do it. But if we could just get one
volunteer every few months it would be a big help because people that
use volunteer match have time to volunteer (otherwise they would not
be seeking a volunteer position). So the people you do get from
VolunteerMatch are likely to have more time than volunteers recruited
via the Linux community and thus make a much more substantial
contribution to the work of LDP.
> One recruiting idea would be to find writers who are already out there,
> but just aren't working on LDP. For example, look up the Wikipedia
> contributors who work on Linux articles, or look up some bloggers who
> write good Linux content. Targeted personal appeals might work.
Good idea and add Linux LUGs to the list. Finding writers already
writing takes more time but then you have a sample of their writing to
evaluate for clarity and accuracy. We need a volunteer to do this.
David Lawyer
