Grassroots Projects

This is a list of projects that members of our grassroots community are working on. If you would like to volunteer to help with one or more of them, contact Yosem Companys. Please let us know if there are any projects that should also be listed here, other projects we should work on, or any questions/feedback you may have.

##Simple ways to help out

Support Hashtags
Help respond to posts to #questions, #bug, and #feature tags on Diaspora.

DiasporaForum
Help answer questions and assist new Diaspora members. http://www.diasporaforum.org/

IRC Chat
Visit our IRC chat channel to talk about Diaspora, answer questions, discuss bugs and new feature suggestions.

Welcome Committee
Volunteers needed to help with welcoming new users to Diaspora.

##Projects that need volunteers

Beta Launch
Will need meetup organizers, designers, and writers to help.

Bill of Rights, Privacy Policy & Terms of Service
Need writers to help.

Meetups
Need meetup organizers to help. http://www.meetup.com/Diaspora/

Pod Uptime
Need designers to help make Pod Uptime (the great 1st directory of Diaspora* pods) more awesome. http://podupti.me/

Media Team
Need more bloggers and writers to help build up our media outreach group.

Diasporial
Could use more writers, and especially, translators. http://diasporial.com/

GetSatisfaction
Could use help running this forum, responding to questions, problems, etc. http://getsatisfaction.com/diaspora

Translations
Translators needed for our grassroots translations group. We'd like to try to translate Diaspora into all world languages.

Wiki on Github
Need user documentation writers. https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki

##Projects that currently do not need additional volunteers

Creative Collective
A Creative Collective a la Mozilla to have a place for everyone to come together to develop great fan art, and then enable Diaspora users to create t-shirts, mugs, etc from the fan art via something like Zazzle.

Pod Rating Website
A user-driven pod rating website to keep pods accountable to their users.

Project Website
www.diasporafoundation.org