[Computerbank] volunteers list

[Bruce McCubbery]

Another good Greg idea!

Although I don't think you meant it the way I took it?

A list for those who want to help Computerbank to spread right across
Australia as much as it can, as soon as it can, but they can't do anything
to do with computers much. 

People like those with experience as or in:

typing
phone switchboards
secretary
bookkeeper
storeman
TV technician (monitors)
couriers and owner drivers
furniture removal
trucking
logistics
selfhelp groups
neighbourhood houses
telecentres
community groups
meeting and greeting
baking bikkies and making coffee
filing papers
photocopying
proofreading
etc.

We need all of them, too.

Bruce



At 11:28 6/01/02 +1100, Greg White wrote under "solving the conundrum of
the bush":
>A help list for all of Australia may work, but are all the groups using the
>same distribution?  And I think that you need a Help for Volunteers list,
>separate to the Help for Don't Know Linux or Computers.  Just for
>psychological reasons. If it is a list of people asking only simple green
>problems (that everybody knows), then the clients will feel good about
>piping up and asking questions, and solving their problems, in a group of
>equals.   But if you bundle them in with the volunteer helpers list, then
>they become worried that everybody will think that they are stupid, or think
>that they are too stupid to learn, and all that sort of negative stuff.