Volunteer programmers save the world: 100 first days

    In the wake of a post about rescuing cat rescuers and launching an IT volunteer project.

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    The results of the survey showed that approximately one out of three of us somehow participated in the free provision of it-services to our friends, public organizations, or in some form helped open-source projects. A month ago, in Gicktime, in a survey about an IT volunteer ( here he is on Github ), 174 people with experience in volunteering were noted.

    After the first post, in a couple of days, more than 600 people came to the it-volunteer, some of them registered, chose their own strength task and helped this or that non-profit organization.

    Current scale of the phenomenon

    So, for the first 100 days out of 7300 visitors, 170 tasks turned out - every day, on average, 1-2 new tasks are added.
    30 tasks have already been solved by volunteers, 40 are “in work" (a volunteer has been found, but the task has not yet been solved).
    50+ tasks are still awaiting volunteer assistance.

    Of course, not all tasks are formulated clearly and understandably, somewhere errors, somewhere complexity, but the model is viable. Volunteers exist and they are among us.

    Remember that the project code is completely open and available on Github - you can make it better or upgrade your own version.

    Please send your pull requests, they will come in handy.

    Be sure to take part in the new poll.

    Only registered users can participate in the survey. Please come in.

    If I were an IT volunteer, I would do it because:

    • 28.7% is easy, but I basically like to do good deeds 77
    • 18.2% I help those whom I personally know 49
    • 14.9% I am close to the topic of saving fur seals / forests / fields, than I can - I will help 40
    • 7.4% will do the part for free, ask for money for beauty - win-win 20
    • 18.6% I need experience / portfolio 50
    • 11.9% pro-bono work is a good way to honestly advertise my services 32

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