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| DATE | 2020-09-18 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] FSF Volunteer opurtinties
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FSF Blogs: Volunteers needed: Help maintain our webmail page
from Planet GNU
Fri Sep 18 2020 11:43:04 (2 hours)
# 1.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) needs your help! We are looking
for several reliable volunteers to keep our Free Software Webmail
Systems page up to date, and respond to community questions about
webmail programs as they come in. Between 1,000 and 2,000 visitors check
out this resource every month, and we want to make sure our
recommendations are accurate! If you're interested, please contact us at
campaigns-at-fsf.org.
Our Free Software Webmail Systems page is used to share resources
for people interested in using their email over the Web without
compromising their freedom. Many webmail systems meet at least some of
our standards for respecting users, including compliance with GNU
LibreJS standards, but they're constantly changing, and new services are
popping up every day. When sites listed on this page change their
services for the better or the worse, they don't tend to notify us,
which means that some vigilance is required to make sure that this
resource stays useful.
Volunteers need to be:
Doggedly persistent
Detail driven
Patient
You will need to utilize the following skills, or be willing to learn:
Using a Mozilla-based browser with the LibreJS plugin
Email terminology
Editing HTML
At the moment, we have a backlog of requests from community members
asking us to vet assorted services or changes to the Free Software
Webmail Systems page. We need volunteers to work through that backlog.
Once all requests are cleared up, we will need our volunteers to do
regular maintenance, to make sure the page is current. We'll also need
volunteers to field queries from free software supporters, who often
submit questions and suggestions for webmail programs to use. To
research, you'll need to visit Web sites, sign up and use mail programs,
make notes on successes or failures, and make a call on whether the
criteria for free software have been met. You then submit a markup text
of needed edits to the FSF campaigns team, who will make those edits on
the FSF Web site. Volunteers can also make suggestions to help improve
the appearance of the page and the criteria used to determine which
sites are listed.
Helping us keep this valuable resource up to date will only require
occasional effort, but will net tremendous gratitude from the team at
the FSF, and provide a very important service for the free software
community.
--
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that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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