New Volunteer Orientation HOWTO

=New Volunteer Application= We need to collect some information about each new person: Name, address, other contact data, etc.

We have a form for this on the atrium site.

Mothership resources
http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/New_volunteer_paperwork

http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Dead_trees#Volunteer_Desk

Mothership's Volunteer Application form is available here as an .odg file (LibreOffice). These are the bases for the forms linked above. We made some changes to the files. For example, we are not currently able to provide court-mandated community-service hours as far as I know. For this and other reasons we can't just use Mothership's forms directly.

Our forms aren't perfect, but they are public. If you need to make a change to them, please get a login to the atrium site and post your changes there.

=Free_Geek_Seattle:About=

The facilitator gives a brief introduction to Free Geek Seattle and the new volunteers' potential place within it. Explain the Build and Adoption programs at minimum.

=Questions from the audience=

If you've done the presentation reasonably well, there will be few or no questions. If you've done it really well then there will be several, but probably not more than five minutes' worth.

FAQ
As these meetings continue we'll likely see some questions more than once. This is a place to put those questions and their answers for facilitators' reference.

=Other Activities=

Classes
See the Classes page

Hardware recycling and refurb
Make sure that safety equipment is available (gloves, safety glasses... what else?) before letting volunteers tear into any hardware. As a facilitator you are potentially responsible for any injuries!

Make sure that teardown areas are kept neat. Fasteners should be sorted and kept in bins for reuse, parts sorted and catalogued if reusable or sent to recycle otherwise.

=Things to remember=

We don't own the TMC space, and we share it with several other groups and projects. Always make sure the space is left in the same condition / configuration in which you found it.

Always sign in at the FCS front desk when you arrive. They need to know we are there and are not burglars. As far as I know we are on 'the book' to be there every week, but they have a lot of scheduled events, so make sure they know we are there.