This isn't your normal "looking for work" post.
I've decided to shut my business and do more volunteer / community work.
If you know of an organisation which could use a board member with strong digital skills, extensive experience in open source and open standards, or cybersecurity please let me know.
Nothing full time. Personal recommendations preferred. Feel free to share.
Is the Irish lot but I think there are similar elsewhere https://www.boardmatch.ie/about#:~:text=We%20match%20individuals%20that%20are,have%20board%20and%20committee%20vacancies.
@Edent my employer (a Scottish charity) places specialist volunteers with charities, based on defined needs. Ranges from board appointments through to an hour or twos advising.
Details here if you're interested:
https://inspiringscotland.org.uk/what-we-do/specialist-volunteer-network/svn-get-involved/
@Edent thanks. It is pretty much entirely remote. Board roles are obviously a certain commitment but the extent to which general specialist advising / support is given is entirely at the volunteer's discretion - my SVN colleagues operate as the matchmaker and then you decide how far you want to take it. Most volunteering done is a few hours in total, but some volunteers go on to get heavily involved with a charity.
While we work only in Scotland, we do work with a lot of UK-wide charities.
@Edent would have to confirm internally but there could interest from my place of work at Awana Digital.
Happy to connect you with the right people if it's mutual :)
If you really want to do something very different, given your experience in government, you could join Palantir UK.
As a double agent.
If successful the benefits to the British public would be immense.
@Edent You should definitely join us at DWeb Camp! Many incredible people, groups, and organizations will be there, plenty of opportunities to connect and get involved in key decentralization projects 👀
8–12 July, Alte Hölle, Germany.
@noodlemaz I'm in the UK. Happy to help in any anglophone country.
Mainly looking for charities, foundations, or other worthy causes.
@Edent if you scan down through this pinned post, others have collected quite a few volunteer job boards here
while far less glamorous than "board member" I've done similarly on occasion, engaging with a couple non-profits in a generic IT capacity for mundane stuff like cleaning up duplicate records in databases, creating new reports, etc. Things that would cost them hundreds or thousands of dollars to hire someone to do, so they just put up with the pain. It could just be running cable or making sure that backups happen & restores can happen. Most places don't need more bureaucratic roles filled, just boots-on-the-ground help.
That said, you'll find the most fulfillment if the org is one that does something important to you. For us, that's usually local orgs that help with social issues.
Maybe @Wtebbens knows of something?
Also would be lovely if you came to https://organizemovementmeetup.org in Sweden in May.
There's also https://www.internetsociety.org/
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