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• Good to see _someone_ can read between the lines (Score:1)

  by Alias (5735)

  > 4. I will always be enthusiastic about new volunteers, no
  > matter howmany times I hear:
  >
  > "Hi, I'd like to volunteer."
  > "Great! What would you like to do?"
  > "I don't know."
  > "How about X?"
  > "I don't want to do *that*."
  >
  > Or:
  >
  > "Hi, I'd like to volunteer to do Y."
  > "Great!" 1 month later: "Hey, how's Y going?"
  >
  
  Indeed. If I had a volunteer for every time I'd heard that...
  
  Unfortunately, it seems a lot of the time that volunteers, when asking
  • Re:Good to see _someone_ can read between the line (Score:2)

    by brian_d_foy (44)

    Volunteers almost never work out, and you can't use their enthusiasm with a programming project like Pugs to judge their enthusiasm for something really mundane like putting tax records online or setting up a blog they won't be able to post on.
    
    Most of the work for TPF is really dull to most people. That's why there aren't too many people doing it.
    • Re:Good to see _someone_ can read between the line (Score:2)

      by Ovid (2709) on 2006.03.31 19:02 (#46901) Homepage Journal

      ++

      Yeah, my role as Grant Secretary is all wine, women and song, I tell ya.

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