New Volunteer ReadMe

Welcome to Kids on Computers! We're so excited to have you volunteer with us. Here's a guide on how we communicate, how we operate and how to get started volunteering with us.

Web Site

• http://www.kidsoncomputers.org .
• It's a Wordpress site. If you'd like to add/edit content, please email the list to ask for an account.

Twitter Account

• http://twitter.com/kidsoncomputers
• Please follow KOC!

Facebook Account

• Please like our Facebook page: http://facebook.com/kidsoncomputers

Mailing Lists

• We communicate mostly via mailing lists and our monthly meeting.
• Sign up for our mailing list here: http://lists.kidsoncomputers.org/listinfo.cgi/kidsoncomputers-kidsoncomputers.org

Monthly Meetings and Notes

• Monthly meetings occur on the third Thursday of every month via Skype.
  • Check the calendar for dates and for other events
  • Email the mailing list with your Skype ID to be added to the call
• Notes from our monthly meetings (and other ad-hoc meetings) are maintained in Etherpad, hosted by Mozilla. We don't have an index, but the individual notes pages are at:
  • https://koc.etherpad.mozilla.org/1
  • https://koc.etherpad.mozilla.org/2
  • ...
  • https://koc.etherpad.mozilla.org/56
  • https://koc.etherpad.mozilla.org/57
  • ... etc.

Blog

• Our blog is hosted on our web site at: http://www.kidsoncomputers.org/blog. It's also on Wordpress.
• We'd love to have folks contribute blog postings about work they're doing with KOC. Even just a picture with a caption will suffice!
• Email the list for an account.

Wiki

• Our wiki is at wiki.kidsoncomputers.org .
• There are some useful nuggets of info here, but could also use some work in organizing and adding content. * We have some technical info about distros and installation procedures, but not as well organized as we'd like.
• Email the list for an account.

Inventory

• We maintain an inventory of donated equipment at glpi.kidsoncomputers.org.
• Email the list for login info.