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Our website has been a dumping ground for information, without much attention to connecting the user to the experience of being here. I'd love to figure out a better way to incorporate in all of the pictures we take, the updates we send out, and the videos we're starting to generate. It would be amazing to have a site that made it easier for people to get in touch with us, and have access to the resources they're looking for (updates, presentations, etc.).
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PHASE 2: Adding Cutting Edge Applications to our existing site.
We need CREATIVE, RUBY PEEPS TO HELP US LAUNCH THE SECOND PHASE of our virtual area. The site was created from the ground up.
Our goal is to become known as the premier teen girl leadership organization that uses CUTTING EDGE, HIP technology to create, organize and sustain our local volunteer chapters.
We hope to re-register 1,000 volunteers (across the country and Canada and Scotland) starting in September.
GGChapters:
GGChapters is a critical connection for GG volunteers, to GlamourGals leadership, and ultimately to the community of elderly women we serve. This platform is built to empower its tech-savvy users to express their passion with one another while organizing themselves effectively and efficiently and allowing GG National to disseminate information, resources, and products to them. GlamourGals knows that every dollar a non-profit saves in overhead, administration, or infrastructure is another dollar that can be applied to help someone in need. The online community is a vital and integrated part of the GlamourGals model.
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At minimum they need a database of everyone in the school (which is
collected via room parents and PTA membership since we can't get any
information from the district) and there would need to be some flags
for whether people are willing to share contact info with just the
classroom, just the PTA board and committee chairs, or anyone in the
school. At maximum, it could be a real resource for organizing
parents and a catalyst for increasing involvement through grade-level
and class-room info pages, as well as a shared place to record all the
background information about how an ever-changing group of 10-30
people runs dozens of activities and programs throughout the school
year from an outdoor science program that takes place in gardens that
were planted and are maintained by parent volunteers to a technology
program that teaches narrative development through claymation to 2nd
and 3rd graders.
More details:
Must have:
1. front page w/ integrated calendar, plus links to pages for info about the school, links to current and past issues of the newsletter, etc.
2. Different login levels with access to different resources: parent, teacher, staff, PTA member, PTA board member, etc.
3. Directories of people, organized in several ways:
a. by classroom. Room parents would enter the names of parents and children here. They and the PTA board would be the only ones with access to the lists.
b. PTA committee membership/chairmanship and history
c. by offered skills
This directory will require that parents/guardians can have multiple roles, and be linked via child(ren) to their family info. Note: there are many “non-traditional” family arrangements, so this will have to be flexible.
Directories should be exportable or cut/pastable to, for example, the to: field of an email application.
Directories should be easy to “roll over” into new school year.
4. Privacy flags to control release of information as requested by parent.
These should be respected throughout entire site and help prevent incorrect
publication of parents info.
5. straightforward procedure to update content or make small modifications
to web site.
6. Solid backup/restore.
Would like to have:
1. Distinct log in for each parent, teacher, staff or PTA member (note: important to have multiple email addresses per child to include active grandparents)
2. a wiki that is private to the school community
3. a central place to post fliers (both public and private to the school community) –
4. Shared file repository for collection of documents that are used by PTA and
classrooms (These are event fliers etc...)
5. private photo sharing (parent specifies to share with classroom, yearbook, school) with notification of new photos (which people could opt out of)
6. internal news page (blog format, private to the school community)
7. Secured parts of the site to PTA board members where they can share
internal documents and discussions, similar to Google groups.
8. Ability to receive automatic donation payments directly through web site.
9. Some way to communicate and organize volunteer opportunities to parents.
10. A place to display children's work.
Nice to have:
1. Online Forums and discussion areas
2. import lifetouch photos (for student identification, these would be considered private data and parents would need to have a way to opt out)
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(1) Rails Enrollment Application
PersonalGenomes.org is actively developing an online enrollment application which enables researchers at Harvard Medical School to identify, qualify, consent, and enroll individuals interested in participating in Personal Genome Project research study.
The different components of this application are described on the "How it Works" page here:
http://www.personalgenomes.org/howitworks.html
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We’d like to find volunteer Rails developers to work with our internal team developing plugins and applications to support our human rights work. Current projects include online video distribution technology, an image/video asset management and distribution system as well as plugins to extend our online campaigning and supporter platform, amongst others.
You’ll need to already have some experience with Rails development, and either familiarity with or willingness to learn TDD/BDD with Cucumber and RSpec.
There is scope to open source some of the projects you work on. The position could involve working from our central London office or remotely from anywhere in the world. Survival is one of the most dynamic and exciting campaigning organizations around, and your work will have a real impact on our campaigns for years to come.
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Our Ruby on Rails application is not yet in production, and achieving basic functionality for our beta launch is our current objective. We have completed our wireframes / comps and much of the back-end code. We need help developing the view layer code and finishing the back-end code.
You can learn more about the project / position at:
http://www.citizensmarket.org/Volunteer_Your_Rails_Skills_for_Social_Impact.pdf
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The SETI Institute is looking for a few good rails programmers to build a test harness for the SETI Institute's radio show and podcast site. There may be additional work for interested devs doing code cleanup and new features on the site as well.
This project will be limited to 3 active Rails developers.