The Year Ahead: Volunteering Your IT Skills
News The standard of materials can surprise people, and volunteering an ideal way to develop soft skills -- learning to work with different people. Across Africa, countries from Ethiopia to Zimbabwe are looking to recruit IT specialists in every field.
[January 1, 2002, 6:31]
IT Pros 'must Put Something Back'
News The scheme -- IT 4 Communities -- has two objectives: to achieve a significant and sustainable increase in the number of companies and IT professionals volunteering their skills in their local communities, and to maximise the effectiveness of this...
[November 11, 2002, 10:35]
IT Gives Back
Blog We're a bit late with this one (hey, I was away), but apparently a national IT volunteering programme called IT4C (the C being Communities) has recently celebrated the donation of £2m worth of time by IT pros to worthy causes.
[January 11, 2007, 13:58]
OpenOffice Makes Government Inroads
Talkback The whole open source software philosophy revolves around users and other intereasted people/parties volunteering time and code to the communial effort of creating better, more robust software. The more users put in the more users get out of open...
[December 18, 2003, 14:58]
Academics Scrutinise Open-source Culture
News But among those that get off the ground, research has shown not only that the open-source approach can yield better software more quickly and for less money than traditional methods but also that volunteering for an open-source project can be an...
[January 6, 2004, 11:05]
Adult Links Mar Children's Search Engine
News Rose, a 23 year-old university student, created the search engine in his spare time between studying management at the University of Western Sydney and volunteering at Sydney's Children Hospital. The creator of a child-oriented search Web site has...
[April 14, 2004, 11:30]
Gov't Announces Airport ID-card Trials
News We will not be volunteering for the trials. The Home Office has announced the first trials of ID cards for airside workers. ID cards will be trialled at two airports from autumn 2009. Manchester and London City airports have agreed to work with the...
[November 5, 2008, 17:17]
London 2012: IT Volunteers Needed
News Staffing will also be an issue, with the Olympic spirit of volunteering extending to IT support for the games. Planning for the technology infrastructure that will underpin the London Olympic Games in 2012, including the need for thousands of...
[July 7, 2005, 9:05]
Surviving The IT Jobs Drought
News Michael Bayrock, for example, reported that he's been keeping busy by doing anything from home improvements to computer consulting to volunteering. Responses to a recent Discussion Centre topic indicate that many IT pros are still out of work in...
[November 15, 2002, 12:02]
Netscape Flaw Worse Than 'Back Orifice'?
News On Brumleve's demonstration page, he offers visitors a chance to see the vulnerability in action by volunteering to submit their computers to it. The flaw is rather straightforward -- programmers can tell a Java applet included in the browser to...
[August 8, 2000, 9:54]
Failed Laptop
Forum I dont want to go to a specialist repair place, after volunteering in Africa, I dont have the funds to do that. I wonder if anybody has any thoughts on this. I have a Dell Inspiron 9100. It has served me very well but now has died.
[June 27, 2006, 16:54]
Open-source Geeks Are Modern Heroes, Says Think Tank
News This could include days off work for employees to engage in activities and volunteering, or a national programme for 16- to 21-year-olds who want to spend a year on social Pro-Am activities. Britain's open-source software developers make a valuable...
[November 29, 2004, 14:40]
IT Companies 'discriminate Towards Women'
News One way that women can help their career progression is by volunteering ideas and opinions in team meetings, according to Budzianowski. Women no longer seem worried about being discriminated against in the IT industry and some have the opposite...
[September 14, 2005, 12:05]
Lotus Founder Preps Open Source Outlook Alternative
News Andy Hertzfeld, who was part of the team that designed the original Apple Macintosh operating system, is volunteering full-time at OSAF. Can a fledgling nonprofit organisation with half a dozen employees challenge the largest software company in...
[October 23, 2002, 8:02]
Torvalds Steps In To Help Linux Trademark Dispute
News That appears to have prompted Linux Australia Inc to take action, volunteering to take up the cause on behalf of Torvalds and the international Linux community. Linus Torvalds has been called on to help Australia's peak Linux association in a...
[August 11, 2004, 9:20]
