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Opportunity Name: New Website including CMS, Forum, and Donate Button
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: E1
Virtual: No

Description: This small charity based near Whitechapel tube station works with villages in the Odweyne region of Somaliland, supporting education for children, providing financial assistance for teacher training and adult literacy support. They would like you to build them a website to promote the work they do, to provide supporters and villagers with a forum, and to get online donations. They want to be able to keep the website up to date themselves, to add and change text, add pictures, and perhaps to add new pages, so you'll need to install an appropriate content management system and train them how to use it. They would like you to implement domain email.Your guidance about choosing and registering a domain name, and arranging hosting would be welcomed. They're working on ideas for design, and the content. They would like to get online donations, however, you'll need to guide them on this, and perhaps help them register for a charity account with PayPal.

Opportunity Name: Specify Requirements for new Website including CMS and Shop
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: Surrey
Postcode: KT8
Virtual: No

Description: This long established charity based near Hampton Court station teaches, practises and promotes the art of hand embroidery to the highest standards, within both historical and contemporary design contexts. They run day classes in a range of hand embroidery techniques, and certificated courses, they undertake textile restoration and carry out new commissions to produce income. Although their current website is maintained using a content management system, some aspects like regularly changing banner images, can't be done by them. They want their shop to be more tightly integrated with their website, and they would like to produce e-newsletters easily using a modifiable template. They would like you to produce a requirements specification for a replacement website with a different design, and content management system that would enable them to do all the changes they want. They would also like the online class booking to integrate with their class management database, THANKQ providing it can be done securely; and possibly to integrate Sage with the e-commerce functions. They want you to produce the requirements specification, suggest and discuss options, but also to advise them what is feasible but impractical, or likely to be expensive, and to use your knowledge of the marketplace and technologies so that their expectations are realistic. All their requirements will need to be agreed by their trustees, and they will then use the specification either to seek a commercial developer or to seek a volunteer.

Opportunity Name: Update website and Implement CMS, Forum, and PayPal
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: Holloway
Postcode: N7
Virtual: No

Description: This Community Interest Company based near Finsbury Park tube station aims to empower women by providing a resource for information, advice, support and through providing opportunities for female artists to discuss and display their work. Their website was built by a friend who has moved away, so it needs further work They would like you to incorporate a content management system, so that they can add new pages, text and pictures, and train them how to use it. They would also like artists to be able to upload their work. They would like to have a forum, in which they can moderate the joiners and the content, a contact form, and to use PayPal to collect membership subscriptions, fees, and donations. They would like to meet you initially, and they'll need training; but most of the work will need to be done remotely.

Opportunity Name: Implement CMS and Forum
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: Southwark
Postcode: SE1
Virtual: Yes

Description: This charity based near Southwark tube station provides an independent and authoritative voice for male health and tackles the issues affecting the health and well-being of boys and men in England and Wales. They have two fairly static websites, one providing information about male health, the other is an organisational / campaigning website aimed at health practitioners and government bodies. There is a rather limited custom-built content management system (CMS), which they use to update the sites. They would like the websites to be more interactive/Web 2.0, and so they want you to implement an appropriate replacement, probably open source, CMS that caters for a forum, and for placing audio and video podcasts, and train them how to use it. They also want you to implement a forum for the male health information website and show them how to manage it. There is an associated opportunity to implement online collaboration facilities for their organisational / campaigning website.

Opportunity Name: Discuss Options and Implement Online Collaboration Facilities
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: Southwark
Postcode: SE1
Virtual: Yes

Description: This charity based near Southwark tube station provides an independent and authoritative voice for male health and tackles the issues affecting the health and well-being of boys and men in England and Wales. They have two fairly static websites, one providing information about male health, the other is an organisational / campaigning website aimed at health practitioners and government bodies. They want to have online collaboration facilities for their organisational / campaigning website, that could be used by staff, health practitioners, and partners in other organisations. They would like you to discuss the options, issues and risks, define their needs, and possibly implement the facilities. There is an associated opportunity to implement content management systems for both websites and a forum for the male health information website.

Opportunity Name: Advise on structure of public information website
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: City of London
Postcode: EC4M
Virtual: Yes

Description: This charity is a member association aiming to make the law work for a better environment. In partnership with a university they are in the process of developing a website to make information available to the general public. Whether someone has a problem with a noisy neighbour or is concerned about a major development nearby the site will provide basic legal information and provide pointers to sources of help. They are working with a IT consultant to develop a CMS-based site. However, none of the parties involved has experience of presenting information to the public. They have found some guidelines but are not sure how much they apply in their case. They are looking for a volunteer who can advise on the best way to structure the site and present information. Users may visit the site very infrequently and from public-access computers so it needs to be very easy to find the information they require. Much of the site development is already complete and there's a beta version you'll be able to look at. However, there's still a lot of flexibility in the design and structure of the site. The charity feel that you'd need to spend at least half a day taking an initial look at the site. Further work would depend on how good or bad you feel the site is. They are also planning to get user groups involved in testing the site so you may wish to be involved in that. There is quite a tight timetable for this as the site is due for launch in January 2009. They're happy to work remotely with a volunteer.

Opportunity Name: Create Staff Area / Intranet for Charity
Skill Type: Website
Region: South West
Locality: Princetown
Postcode: PL20
Virtual: Yes

Description: This charity based at Dartmoor prison, Princetown, Devon, helps maintain family contact between prisoners and their children through the production of story CDS and DVDs. Imprisoned parents read a bedtime story which is either recorded digitally or filmed. It is downloaded onto a computer and edited using either audio or visual software to produce a CD or DVD. They have a network of 10 PCs running XP and Office 2007, and they use Adobe Audition and Premiere for the editing. There are charity staff at about 70 prisons helping prisoners record stories, but all the editing is done at Dartmoor. They would like to have a secure staff only area on their website that provides a forum and the capability to upload resources on to the web server.

Opportunity Name: Ad-hoc support for PC network inside Dartmoor prison
Skill Type: Network
Region: South West
Locality: Princetown
Postcode: PL20
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based at Dartmoor prison, Princetown, Devon, helps maintain family contact between prisoners and their children through the production of story CDS and DVDs. Imprisoned parents read a bedtime story which is either recorded digitally or filmed. It is downloaded onto a computer and edited using either audio or visual software to produce a CD or DVD. They have a network of 10 PCs running XP and Office 2007, and they use Adobe Audition and Premiere for the editing. The network is totally isolated from the prison network and there is no internet access. The person who currently supports the network is leaving soon, so they're looking for a local volunteer who would be available to come in and rectify problems when they occur and also to train staff to solve simple problems and do simple maintenance tasks. You'll need to undergo a CRB check. Please note there is no wheelchair access.