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DigiActive will be @ NetSquared

Thanks to a generous scholarship from the organizers, DigiActive co-founder Mary Joyce will be traveling to San Jose next week on behalf of DigiActive to attend the NetSquared Conference, an event which brings together people who support the “distribution and use of social technologies for progressive change.” If you see her, stop by and say “hi”. As always, she’ll have a bunch of DigiActive laptop stickers and you might even get a hug.

Guide: How to Find A Volunteer Developer For Your Activism Project

Title: How to Find A Volunteer Web Developer For Your Social Change Website or Web Application

Author: Joe Solomon

Published by: NetSquared (2008)

What is it?: A short online guide of 10 steps to recruiting a volunteer web developer to help you build a social change web application.

URL: www.netsquared.org/blog/joesolomon/part-2-how-find-volunteer-web-developer

My friend Joe Solomon, with whom I created Rayt, has written a great little guide on how to find a web developer to help you create an online project for social change. The guide is available at.

Finding volunteer developers is a really serious challenge for digital activists. Although a lot of current software, like Facebook and Blogger, is fairly easy to use, some more complex projects, like Ushahidi.com necessitate the help of a skilled developer. The process of finding developers to help you is not obvious and Joe’s guide provides the necessary guidance to help you get the help you need to make your project a reality.

The guide, which is available on the NetSquared blog, is available in two parts. In Part One, Joe breaks down the task of finding a developer into 5 parts. Part Two contains continues with tasks 5 through 10. Here is a summary of the tasks he covers: Read more »