Mozilla Launches Week for 'Geeks'

Mozilla, the group that made the Firefox Web browser, is working to connect technical volunteers with nonprofit groups that need their help.

Called the Mozilla Service Week, the aim is to match "'techie' volunteers around the world with nonprofits in need of help with IT, Web design, programming, blogging and more," according to the Mozilla Service Week website. The event runs the week of Sept. 14–21, 2009.

The site offers some possible suggestions for how people can volunteer during the week, including the following:

Teach senior citizens how to use the Web.Show a nonprofit how to use social networking to grow its base of supporters.Help install a wireless network at a school.Create Web how-to materials for a library's computer cluster.Refurbish hardware for a local computer center.Update a nonprofit organization's website.

If you already have your own idea, you can register on the site and let everyone there know. And through Mozilla's partnership with Idealist.org, you can look for specific volunteer opportunities on the website.

Nonprofit groups in need of technical assistance can register a request for help here, while technical types who want to be of assistance can find out more information about volunteering here.

 

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