Introducing Open-Volunteering for COVID-19
Open-Volunteering is a way for anyone volunteering in a COVID-19 project to live-stream their computer-based volunteer work. The volunteer downloads software that captures screenshots every 2 minutes to create a public work-log of the time they clock as a volunteer.
CoronavirusArmy.org shows a Volunteer Leaderboard listing volunteers by the amount of time they have logged open-volunteering.
Why Consider Open Volunteering?
- Teamwork Efficiency: CoronavirusArmy is split up into teams. Your team will appreciate being able to know what everyone is working on without constant nagging. It makes it more like a real in-person office where you can walk over to see how work is going. Communication overhead is instantly reduced when teams can see what other team-members are working on because they don’t have to ask.
- People Can Sponsor You: In the next few days we’re rolling out a feature for people to be able to sponsor any volunteer if they like their work.
Imagine having 100 people sponsoring your volunteer work with an average pledge of $0.30 per hour. You would be making $30/hr anytime you clock-in to volunteer.
- Community Transparency: The internet community following CoronavirusArmy will appreciate us being transparent and letting them watch what we’re working on.
- Recognition for Your Hard Work: If you log your work you have verifiable proof of your volunteer services rendered, to use however you’d like. You also get public recognition on our website and a link you can share with others.
- Unlock Serendipity: People love to help; if people on the internet are watching your screen and see you stuck on a hard problem they might just message you with the solution!
- Inspire Others: Let other people see the time and energy you are investing into stopping COVID-19 and saving lives! Your decision to let the world watch your volunteer work might just inspire someone and help increase their faith in humanity’s goodness.
How can you get started Open-Volunteering?
It takes 2–3 minutes to download and setup the desktop app. After that it is just one-click anytime you want to clock-in or clock-out. For detailed instructions on how to start open-volunteering see our wiki page.
The Open-Volunteering Leaderboard
Volunteers will be displayed on the leaderboard by how many hours they’ve clocked. We will soon have options to sort the list by how recently they worked.
