We will list all the things people can do here to help out. Here are a few to start with:
Technical (internet)
- CSS
- Need to be able to consult with someone (maybe skype or similar) when designing pages. Having trouble getting layouts to behave, but do want to be standards-compliant, and to learn CSS properly.
- DNS
- Need someone to talk with while we are setting up the server. It's just an experimental server, so none of it will be time-critical. We have a spare domain (nimno.org) and a static IP address which that domain points to. The server would eventually be installed in our projects on site, but that is a long way off yet as we would need to keep it simple until people were trained.
- PHP etc
- Need someone willing to help set up and maintain simple weblogs, news sites and photo galleries so that people can use the internet wothout having to learn web design if they don't want to, and without having to pay or use advertising sites. Not a lot, and not heavily (or often) edited. At the moment we just have gallery2 and Drupal running on one site for friends in the Solomon Islands, and an internal wiki using PhpWiki, which (so far!) seems unlikely to need any assistance.
Fundraising
Even if you don't have much time, you can still be involved in what we are doing. Just a small amount of money makes a huge difference in a place like this. For example, $30 will set up a family's solar water steriliazrtion, or pay for some books for the school. $800 will pay for water storage for the whole of the dry season for 30 people.
- Become a Member.
- Organize a benefit gig
- Get your local school interested -we'll be opening a school in Igourdane soon, with internet access, so this could be a good thing for school children anywhere to get involved with.
