VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY (This is NOT a paid job)

Hey there. My name is Abbey. Myself and 3 others are in the start up phase of a non profit called CodeDoesGood. Our mission is to harness the cognitive surplus of the tech community towards building solutions to real problems in the world.

In fact we are killing two birds with one stone here! We realized that most new developers struggle to get their first job. They are really in need of both mentorship to grow and projects to show to potential employers. So we are using our projects to help mentor and train new developers which will not only help out good causes in the world but will also help the tech community at large.

We are a volunteer run organization and we need your help! We need more volunteers. Lots more! From anywhere in the world.

We need developers of all levels (Android, Javascript, ReactNative, and iOS) but we also really need designers, a volunteer coordinator, and some marketing/business volunteers to help us both promote these projects and make contact with organizations who service people that can use our projects (for example we have a couple apps planned regarding refugees and we will need people to reach out to organizations that work with refugees in order for our projects to have the impact we hope they have).

* We actually are pretty full up on iOS developers as we've got about 15 that have signed up to work with us so far so emphasis right now is on finding Android, web.

We have many ideas for projects and are open to taking more - if you have a great idea but don't have the time to do it alone we'd love to talk to you about it! We definitely need a couple designers to join us though or we won't be able to get as many projects off the ground.

About CodeDoesGood

Our online presence is in progress. We have a basic website at www.codedoesgood.org but mostly you can learn about us by visiting our wiki at: http://github.com/CodeDoesGood/org/wiki

You can read about our guiding principles in our wiki but I want to share a couple with you:

We promote open source policies

We sure do! Our projects are going to be open source unless there is a good reason for them not to be. On top of that our non-profit itself is going to be as open source as possible. Our policies and procedures are up on our wiki for everyone to see. The prices we charge to non-profits are outlined in our wiki.

Involvement is fun, rewarding, purposeful and easy.

We are all volunteers here, we know that life gets busy. Time commitment is as little or as much as you are able to spare. We never ever want CodeDoesGood to be a stressful commitment for anyone. All we ask is that you communicate with your team and keep them updated on when work will be done. Our projects do not have tight deadlines - in fact most will not have deadlines at all. It will be done when it is done. We want to provide a safe and stress-free way for new devs to learn and for experienced devs to contribute.

Sound good so far? Please read on for how you can get involved!

CodeDoesGood is looking for:

Juniors who would love to get mentored (and have more projects in their portfolio) in exchange for volunteering their time

Developers who would like to help out the community by providing mentorship

Developers who don't really care about mentorship but are interested in volunteering their time building projects for good causes.

Designers who are able to work directly with clients without supervision

Business volunteers: Volunteer co-ordinator, marketing volunteers

If you want to join us but don't fall into one of the categories above that's AWESOME! Just let us know what you'd like to do, we'd love to have you onboard!

Platforms/Languages: iOS (Swift or ObjC), Android, Javascript (web), Node.js, ReactNative

March 31, 2017: So far we have had 60 responses to this volunteer call out. 45 of those are iOS. Please still apply if you are iOS but also please promote to anyone you know that does Android or Javascript (web) because we are sitting at a 5:1 ratio each for iOS to Android & JS. We do not want the iOS waiting list for projects to be quite that large.

If you are interested in joining us as a developer please fill this form in: https://goo.gl/forms/VFgTYf8z8U1KvFfh2

If you'd like to join us as a designer or business volunteer please fill this form in: https://goo.gl/forms/vpcwXoNhRrCbp3LB3

If you'd like to suggest a project for us to work on please fill this form in: https://goo.gl/forms/WYnAWRi52NwLsr3a2

To read more about the group: http://www.github.com/CodeDoesGood/org/wiki

Please share share share!

We really need your help reaching outside our network. We are an internet-based / remote group and we are looking for volunteers and projects all around the word.