For anyone who hasn't already heard about my nonprofit's plan to create the equivalent of a Wikipedia for all options for any problem: it's a grassroots based nonprofit that you are more than welcome to learn more about on Needpedia.com, or here on Steemit. Feel free to ask anything you'd like, and pass along any feedback you might think of too. There's a lot of smart people on Steemit and we came here to hear from 'em.
Okay now for the update:
We've been needing a lead programmer to help us get the other volunteer programmers that contact us, settled in. And the good news is we've just been contacted by a volunteer who said she's up for the task! We're now beginning preliminary discussions and I've got my finger crossed big time. Thanks to amazing innovations like Volunteermatch.com and others we've had a fairly easy time connecting with new programmers, but finding a lead programmer has always been much harder..
Meanwhile we're starting to hear back from more people who're working on videos for us, and I've been learning more about where I can post around the local colleges and other spots. I'm extremely hopeful about the crowdfunding project, but also kind of nervous because it's hard finding other collaborators.
There's a lot of programmers trying to build their resumes, and that's great, it truly gives me hope for the world, but there's not a lot of citizens who seem to live by that same logic, they don't generally get job offers based on their ability to volunteer. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say they're simply overworked already.
Once Needpedia goes online all we'll need to ask from people is to go use it. -Which directly benefits them, and is easy. Trying to get someone's help getting a website online isn't as easy, or familiar to people. I get a lot of confused looks like 'I don't know web-development'. -to which I always think 'you could help me contact people and generate content. You could sign up for updates and just see if anything comes up you'd like to check out further. Also you could spend five minutes and if 10% of people did that we'd probably be online by now. -already helping you and all the people you keep posting to Facebook about who're dealing with everything from famine to the military industrial complex.
Fortunately it seems like everyone at least vaguely supports the project, I just need to find ways to get them more engaged. Or just focus on finding more volunteer programmers so we can finally just get these tools online. It's just a website, a group like the Free Software Society could probably just snap their fingers and there'd be dozens of developers looking to build their resumes.
So sometimes I consider just trying to focus more on reaching out to groups like them. For now though, I'm focusing on crowdfunding. I want to reach out to local nonprofits and others. If I can gather more collaborators then we can contact more organizations and others, so that's the goal. I need more collaborators. (more programmers and others are always good to see too).