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Volunteer Center Gets a Helping Hand From Safe@Office
White Papers The Volunteer Center of Sonoma County located in Santa Rosa, California, sponsors the largest Human Race fund-raising event in the United States. The Volunteer Center relies on the Internet and a network of 40 PCs to run its daily operations and...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
IT volunteer
Talkback I would love to volunteer I am doing a CCNA at the moment and would love the opportunity to get involved in this project please contact me at dandare@o2.co.uk
[January 31, 2007, 20:12]
Computer Aid: New life for old IT
News Computer Aid International has grown from one volunteer working part time to a slick operation employing 15 paid full-time staff and up to 15 volunteers, in just six years. At the same time, we saw that back in the UK the market would become...
[February 10, 2005, 15:25]
10,000 volunteers to trial ID cards
Talkback do you know if there is a minimum age you have to be to be a volunteer? and is it too late to be a volunteer? if so what is it?
[May 23, 2004, 14:26]
Government rejects Bletchley rescue petition
Blog Comment @Tezzer “I would be delighted to join up as a volunteer. If you can't volunteer, then they have the friends scheme, you can donate and they have an online shop. Now if you'll just tell me a practical way for a full-time employed resident of Kent...
[August 28, 2009, 13:42]
Freenet keeps file-trading flame burning
News A new version of the Freenet software, a program based around wholly anonymous Net publishing and distribution, is due out Monday after long silence from its mostly volunteer developer community. Whatever its immediate impact on users, Freenet is...
[October 28, 2002, 14:18]
Mozilla plans thank you surprise as Firefox growth continues
News The Mozilla Foundation, an open source group founded by Netscape Communications to develop its browser and spun off last year by AOL Time Warner, has been executing an unorthodox, volunteer marketing campaign.
[December 15, 2004, 7:35]
The Year Ahead: Volunteering your IT skills
News Former VSO volunteer Ian Patten ended up working as an MIS/IT coordinator with children's charity PLAN International in Harare. All the examples mentioned above come from the Web site of VSO, the UK's best-known volunteer agency.
[January 1, 2002, 6:31]
Will Mozilla's Lightning strike Outlook?
News I think Outlook leaves a lot of room for a fast competitor," said a Mozilla volunteer involved in the project, who asked not to be named. Sunbird was donated to Mozilla by corporate volunteer OEone, now called Axcentra.
[December 23, 2004, 8:00]
Free office suite reaches milestone release
News It is the result of 18 months of collaboration between Sun developers and more than 10,000 volunteer developers, which began when Sun donated the StarOffice code to the open-source or "free software" community.
[May 2, 2002, 13:08]
Clinton pats Microsoft's back
News Benjamin Franklin understood that 40 years before the Declaration of Independence when he organised America's first volunteer fire department. When you gave all this money — over $70m this year — you were the 21st century's great volunteer fire...
[November 6, 2007, 10:34]
Three top tips for surviving open source projects
News Naturally, it rarely happens that all tasks will find a keen volunteer, and you may have your own reasons for wanting particular people assigned to particular tasks. In a situation where programming work is being supplied on a volunteer basis, the...
[January 23, 2003, 10:04]
User communities at MSN - sting for Netscape
News The company is currently advertising for volunteer hosts on the MSN community section. Department of Labour is investigation whether America Online Inc.violated labour laws by treating volunteer hosts like employees -- requiring them to keep set...
[June 29, 1999, 9:01]
London Olympics to develop local tech talent
News There are typically around three applications for every volunteer role across each Olympic Games — not just in IT — and Price said it is a dynamic but stressful environment to work in. The Olympic IT volunteer roles range from low-skilled tasks...
[October 15, 2007, 14:30]
Unified login, CRM 2.0 take small steps forward
Blog OK, Google has quite a lot of e-mail addresses and Plaxo has 20 million users willing to volunteer more than that, but even combined the lack the cache of a network of 150 million people and 20% of the population logging in to check what is...
[March 16, 2009, 8:36]
Sun muddies StarOffice plans for OS X
News But the plan as outlined in the News.com story drew the ire of volunteer developers at OpenOffice.org, which is charged with release of an open-source version of StarOffice, called OpenOffice, for Mac OS X.
[August 2, 2002, 7:56]
Behind the scenes at Mozilla HQ
News He joined the Mozilla project team at Netscape in May 2000, after working as a volunteer helping streamline the QA process. He started working as a volunteer on the Mozilla project four years ago when he was 13, making him one of the youngest...
[July 19, 2005, 13:35]
ISO may change its processes following OOXML debacle
Blog They're generally volunteer organizations, and they take all the help they can get. So if Microsoft sends a volunteer, they take him. Mason, who until the autumn chaired SC34, the ISO committee in charge of document specifications.
[April 18, 2008, 17:44]
A redundancy survival kit
News A tip: You don't have to volunteer on your CV that you were fired from your last job. Again, you don't ever have to volunteer that you were "involuntarily terminated. Don't volunteer that you were fired but never deny it.
[July 3, 2002, 10:19]
Critics brand OOXML a Microsoft 'marketing tool'
News They're generally volunteer organisations and they take all the help they can get. So, if Microsoft sends a volunteer, they take him. However, now that Microsoft OOXML has been ratified as an international standard — ISO/IEC 29500 — Bray said that...
[April 18, 2008, 17:00]
