[IxDA Discuss] IxDA give-back

[Fred Beecher]

On 12/12/07, Michael Tuminello <mt at motiontek.com> wrote:
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> As a next step, maybe we generate a list of things we'd like to be
> able to do with it?  please feel free to chip in to the list below.
> It's great people on the list (susie at least) already have experience
> with doing something like this.


Excellent list (and an ingenious method of representing a hierarchical list
in plain text, heh)! I think that pretty much covers the project-focused
aspect of this activity. I do have one question though... will non-profits
*know* what kind of expertise they need? I'm guessing they might know that
their site is hard to use or that it's not accomplishing their goals, but
not why.

The other half of this activity is getting IxDA'ers signed up and assigned
to projects. To do this, we'll need to allow people to create and manage
their profiles. A profile would include:

*Basic contact info
**Name
**Email
**Phone (optional)
**IM (optional)
**Mailing address (optional)

*Desired role
**Participant - Standard (just an IxDA'er doing some good)
**Participant - Mentee (doing good while getting experience)
**Mentor (5+ years exp. in the field, assisting those indicating they are
mentees)
**Project manager (not sure about this one, but it seemed worth mentioning)

*Areas of interest (text field, optional)

*Areas of expertise (text field, required for standard participants and
mentors)

*Typical availability per week (in hours)

Am I missing anything here?

Going back to my question about "type of expertise needed," maybe that's
something a human "moderator" could determine? Some generous soul in the
IxDA could volunteer to moderate pro-bono requests, distributing them to
participants based on areas of interest & expertise.

Thoughts?

Another aspect of this project would need to be *promoting it* to the
non-profits. But that's probably a completely separate discussion.

- Fred