SpaceShare Carpooling & Green Logistics November Newsletter
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This Month's Key News & Needs
Our next website is almost ready to launch! SpaceShare is entering
the slow winter season. We're using the time to focus on long-term
development projects. We'll also be looking for other ways to earn revenue
so we can keep the program alive till spring, doing database and web
development work to fund the carpooling.
- Surviving the Slow Winter Season
- Quick Volunteer Opportunity for Everyone: Proof the New Website
- This Month's Key Volunteer Need: "Outreach to Speakers" Coordinator
Surviving the Slow Winter Season
We've been trying to follow a different model than most
environmental efforts, running on volunteer efforts and
earned income rather than begging for money
or competing with other environmental
organizations for a dwindling pool of grant money. We're going to need
help to get through this winter, but hope not to have to ask for money.
Instead, it has always been our intention to reuse the skills and code
base we've developed in building carpool networking tools to pay for the project.
Can you take a few minutes to think if you know of any
development work appropriate for the SpaceShare programmers? We've
developed a suite of tools to build our networking and emailing
systems; we hope to use these for a wide variety of clients,
earning enough income so we can keep growing the environmental
toolkit. Our skills focus on database projects and web development,
especially web application development and opensource work.
Does your business or nonprofit have work for an experienced
web development & database team?
Proofread the Next Website
Looking for a very, very easy way to get involved? Take a look at
our website, pick the area that is of greatest interest to you,
and send suggestions on how we can improve it. For people that
want to volunteer by helping with editing, you don't need to wait
to talk to us or get permission; just jump in, take a look, and
send comments.
www.spaceshare.com/indexZ.php
Key Volunteer Need: Outreach to Speakers
We're looking for a new person to join us and tackle this fun
research & contact project. We already have one famous speaker
who has agreed to tell all the events he speaks at about
SpaceShare. You would find all the amazing speakers you could,
for example by looking at the list of speakers at the Green Festival.
Then you would contact them and ask them if they would send a reply
whenever they are invited to speak, encouraging the event planners
to carpool and hold a
green event.
Let us know if you'd like to help! This could be 2hrs a week or more; a good,
achievable class internship, a great way to meet interesting people!
SF Bay Area
KPFA's Crafts Fair is coming up December 11 & 12, volunteers needed!
Replacing Cars with Community,
Stephen
Stephen Cataldo
SpaceShare.Com
info@spaceshare.com
(510) 520-6175
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