Basic Usage

The main requirements that this system must fulfil are as follows:

• Entry of contact information (phone, address, email, etc.) for 'potential' volunteers
• Track 'interests', 'skills', 'availability', etc.
• Track the volunteer's state, from 'potential', to 'uninterested', 'willing to help', 'participant', 'organizer', etc.
• Do queries to find out who has not been contacted, and generate contact lists to use for recruiting new volunteers.
• Track events or actions that require volunteer participation.
• Do queries to match up events/actions with volunteers that have the appropriate set of skills, interests, and availability.
• Track volunteer's participation in events or actions

Advanced usage ideas:

• Keep track of friendships, so if you get one person to agree to volunteer, you can easily contact all their friends and get them to come too, adding a friendly social aspect to the political action.
• Task elaboration - be able to break large-scope projects down into small-scope tasks that can be advertised in the volunteer system.
• Automation of volunteer contact via VoIP service with Asterisk attached to it. Everyone can be dialed with full voice prompts. Email, SMS, and postcards can also be automated.