Voluntourism Day
UPDATE: We'll be posting the detailed plan on our Voluntourism day page. But please sign up for this event if you'd like to attend, or add questions in the Comment box below.
ApacheCon is arranging a volunteer event to help rebuild a small part of New Orleans. We welcome our all attendees to stay the Saturday following the conference to help us make a difference in the real world.
One of the reasons we selected New Orleans for our venue was to try to help out. Not only can we help by bringing ApacheCon's business into the city, we can also band together and work with a local non-profit to make a real difference with our hands.
Our planning team and Justin Erenkrantz have talked with the Beacon of Hope Resource Center to arrange for an ApacheCon group volunteer activity on Saturday, November 8th. If you are willing to help, please sign up to attend this event, and use the comment feature below to ask any questions.
For more details on this post-con event, please see our Voluntourism day special event.
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What a great day! We shoveled mud and built a fence. A great turn-out.
It was a great time and felt good giving back.
Looking for photos of day if there are any.
I just added the photos I took to the Apachecon group at Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon/
A great time indeed.
Not sure why but I can only see my photos in the Apachecon group at Flickr if I am signed in. Here is a direct link to the set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32208089@N03/sets/72157608843376557/
We're gathering at 8:30am sharp, and have arranged a bus for transport to the worksite. Note that we're still working on getting transport back from the worksite, so if you do have a rental car with space, let us know, so we can reduce the number of cabs we'll need.
Note that depending on the number of volunteers, we don't know how long the job will take.
In any case - please bring an ApacheCon or ASF feathered tshirt if you have one! And if you have a good camera, bring that too; we're going to want to take a picture of our creation (presuming, of course, we can get a bunch of geeks to build a fence in a straight line instead of a fractal.