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Virtual Volunteering
An anonymous reader writes "Virtual Volunteering is new to me, so I thought that I would pass the info. along. Given the downturn in employment and the need to keep an active resume or CV, becoming a 'Virtual Volunteer', may be just the way to refresh your outlook and your resume. A PC World article talks about two sites which list numerous opportunities; Volunteer Match lists 41,538 opportunities associated with 23,359 organizations, and World Computer Exchange which 'is a global nonprofit organization committed to helping the world's poorest youth bridge the disturbing global divides in information, technology and understanding. WCE does this by keeping donated PCs, Macs, and Laptops out of landfills and giving them new life connecting youth to the Internet in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.' There are most likely more organizations like this out there, anybody have a special one that they are associated with?"
How about this one? Frankly I know not much about them, but according to their unsolicited letters sent to all small and medium companies, they claims to be a non-profit organization which offers free audit for companies computer systems. They even request everybody assist in the auditing. How nice they are.
(For humor-impaired, this is a joke)
Some minor military healthcare data on it, but I can erase that.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
If I virtually volunteer, do I only have to do virtual work? If so, sign me up!
Has anyone thought this through? Won't the third-world children who educate themselves on our used PCs grow up to compete in the labor market with good old American techies and engineers?
These commies and subversives are undermining the US economy! They are fostering a pool of cheap technical labour that will suck thousands of jobs across the border, to IT sweatshops where children as young as 12 pound out third-rate code for $1.75 a day! On our own PCs, no less... the irony!
Our very livelihoods are at stake and I, for one, will not stand for this terrorist plot. Do the patriotic thing and let your computers erode in landfills where they belong! (Just make sure you don't drink nearby well water for 30 years)
It's called "Open Source", a few of you may have heard of it.
There's a big group that controls a bunch of it called GNU -- they're wacky and pronounce the 'g' in GNU.
There's even a open source kernel called "Linux" started by some European guy. He works for some other company that does processors but spends a lot of time on the Linux thing.
Anyways, just wanted to point some folks at some other volunteer possibilities..
...my virtual public spirit and enthusiasm couldn't overcome my real-world apathy and laziness.
God, sometimes it gets so bad that I can't even be bothered to finish my own
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Maybe I can find a girl to volunteer to be my girlfriend. Mostlikely not. :(
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