Volunteering on Stormy Peters

In order to grow your volunteer community, you must work in the open

Wed, 14 May 2025 14:38:02 -0700

Doing research for my Grow an Organization by Planting Volunteers at SCALE, I ran across Dirk Riehle’s article on the Five Stages of Open Source Volunteering. The whole article is worth a read but I thought I’d call out the open communication piece. He says to support a distributed community and to engage new volunteers, open communication is key.

Public communication ensures that all members of the community have the opportunity to participate, which creates buy-in and trust.

Use your vacation to do good in exotic locations

Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:54:07 -0700

Kids on Computers is planning a trip to the Huajuapan de Leon, Mexico area in June. If you can, please join us! If you can’t, please consider donating to help the labs we’ll be working on.

Most of us will be going down for a week or so. There are travel stipends available for those willing to spend a month helping in the area.

**What could I possibly do to help? **I ask myself this every time I go. Especially since I usually drag my kids along. Here are the things you can help with.