[Trisquel-users] What would make you become an associate member?

[chris at thinkpenguin.com]

One last thing to all those who are looking to volunteer. While I have no  
authority with the Trisquel project (that's all Rubén) I do have authority  
with ThinkPenguin (for those who aren't aware- I'm the CEO) and we are  
looking for a person to work on the web site. It's a paying gig that would  
absolutely benefit the Trisquel project.

Filling this "position" benefits the Trisquel project (indirectly):

1. Freeing my time means we can move forward faster on other projects (like  
getting chipsets supported, getting compatible hardware manufactured, etc),  
improving availability of compatible hardware in places that may be more  
challenging (countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere), and  
organising/managing various little things (boring work, but it's not that  
bad) etc

2. If you have the time and not the money/skills/job this is a perfect  
opportunity to make money and pick up the skills needed to work in the Free  
Software world (Free Software Foundation, Trisquel, and others).

You can now become a donating member as well because you'll have a little  
extra spending money!

What we would probably do is setup a "learning environment". It might just  
start out with learning how to setup the infrastructure (can be done  
remotely), setup Drupal, upgrade Drupal, installing modules, and various  
pieces that go into running a web site. Then moving onto Ubercart (shopping  
cart software), tweaking, coding, etc.

This isn't really a small job. While we could probably use a full time person  
it isn't realistic financially (yet). It would probably be a while before one  
had the skills needed to really move us forward too if you are just learning  
PHP/Drupal/etc. It would probably be better for someone young and in school  
with at least 20 hours a week free.