Sources of volunteers

Technical:

• local lugs
• mailing lists
• news groups
• forums
• linux counter + google $NAME $CITY
• computer fairs
• teachers conventions
• public libraries
• fair trade shows

Wanted:

• Information workers
• Education/Academia
• Librarians
• Fairtrade

How to bootstrap the network

• Personal approaches works best:
  • personal contact
  • by phone
  • instant messenger
  • email
  • mailing lists
  • newsgroup
  • forum
  • irc
• personal network of existing volunteers: ask every new volunteer to contact at least two friends personally
• try to aim at least one contact in every major city?
• point people at a volunteer list at computer fairs
• new users that used our services when starting their ubuntu experiment and are still successfully using it after x time