Day On connects nonprofit organizations that need advice and assistance with volunteers who are ready to help.
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Geeks Day On may be over, but geeks are still ready to help! Learn more about how you can get help or volunteer via Day On.
Join Day On at the first annual Open Source Bridge conference in Portland, Oregon. As usual, we are partnering with two groups focused on helping nonprofits with technology: the Nonprofit Technology Network 501 Tech Club and NetSquared NetTuesday.
Day On will be at the Oregon Convention Center throughout OSBridge (9am-5pm, 6/17-19) in Exhibit Hall B, signing up new geekly volunteers. We also welcome nonprofits seeking geekly advice and assistance to drop by (no conference registration required) for free technology consultation.
For our next adventure, Day On is joining forces with two Portland-area groups focused on helping nonprofits with technology: the Nonprofit Technology Network 501 Tech Club and NetSquared NetTuesday.
Civic-minded geeks and nonprofiteers with needs should join us at the ultra-cool AboutUs offices on Tuesday, March 24, for a face-to-face, hands-on technology help fest focused on websites, from simple needs like getting your first site live or choosing web technology, all the way to advanced topics like integrating payment gateways, blogs and social networks.
RSVP now on Upcoming or the NetSquared Meetup and/or grab the event details from Calagator.
Nonprofiteers can help the geeks plan for their needs by completing this brief online survey.
Many thanks to AboutUs for hosting this meetup! We can bring in beer, wine and treats, so if you are able, please bring something to share.
Questions? Contact Day On for more details.
Our first Geeks Day On rocked the house!
Over 50 people participated in our first Day On event, despite being created only one week ago. At CubeSpace, we had a high geek-to-nonprofit ratio, but demonstrated that Portland's geek community (plus a few choice outsiders) is ready, willing and able to help good causes with their geekly needs.
The Day On website is ready to start connecting nonprofit organizations with needs to geeks ready to give advice and assistance.
Nonprofits can now follow three easy steps to get started down the road to some geekly attention and volunteers can let us know their geekly skillz so we can hook them up with friends in need.
The Geeks Day On idea started just over 24 hours ago and the event is already gaining momentum.
CubeSpace, Portland's stalwart co-working space is once again generously opening their doors for a community event. Geekly volunteers can work at CubeSpace during Geeks Day On, 9am-5pm, Monday, January 19, 2009 to serve folks from worthy nonprofits and/or open source projects that drop by or connect by other means. Many thanks to CubeSpace for their sponsorship and continued community spirit!
The list of geekly volunteers is growing both on the Day On site and the Upcoming event listing. Sign up now in both places to volunteer and remember to check "I will/did participate in Day On 2009" on your Day On user profile.
Why did we create Day On?
Day On was inspired by the idea of MLK Day as a day of service rather than a day of rest: a day on, rather than a day off. The idea came out of the community around the Legion of Tech, which seeks to grow and nurture the local Portland, OR community through free, educational, community-run technology events. This year, MLK Day falls on Monday, 19 January 2009.
Our first idea was to hold Geeks Day On in Portland, OR, as a one-day event for nonprofit organizations to connect with geeks—people with skills and experience in technology and Internet communications. It would be like when builders visit those special places where manual laborers congregate, looking for the right people to help them with their work. Any nonprofit could come by or contact our team of geek volunteers who would help them understand and solve any issue they might have with technology and/or Internet communications. If no geek present could help with a specific issue, we would reach out to our extended networks to help find answers and assistance. For one special day, nonprofits could get disinterested, quality advice and help with the issues they often have difficulty solving on their own. Geeks faced with nothing immediate to do would volunteer work on open source projects and other worthy endeavors.
But then we thought: why limit it to just geeks? Why limit it to just Portland, OR?
