Template for Volunteer Emails

Getting in touch with new volunteers
Respond with a bespoke email, referring them to relevant projects and/or working groups as appropriate and offering them the chance to chat via Skype / attend an online meetup.

Keep emails as short as possible and try to refer to a small but concrete task initially.

The paragraph below can be inserted after the signature: - ''If you want to stay in touch with the OKF's work and you haven't already done so, it would be a good idea to:


 * 1) Register to become a part of our community (http://okfn.org/register)
 * 2) Sign up to one or more of our mailing lists (http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo.) The lists 'okfn-announce' and 'okfn-discuss' give a good overview of what is happening across the organisation.
 * 3) Join the relevant interest groups on the site at http://okfn.org/groups - this will allow you to stay up-to-date with who is involved in these projects and see updates on what they are doing.

If you are simply looking for something small, there are a number of quick ways to get involved with the OKF:


 * 1) Have a look at our list of quick projects for volunteers to help with:
 * 2) http://wiki.okfn.org/MicroTasks
 * 3) Get involved in finding open data on our sites, it's really easy:
 * 4) http://getthedata.org
 * 5) http://www.isitopendata.org''

-- Then


 * Add new users who agreed on the form to okfn-volunteers mailing list. This can be done via the mass subscription preferences in the admin section of mailman.
 * Follow up with Skype calls, emails etc
 * Record outcomes of conversations in the outcome columns in spreadsheet (begin comments with #positive, #negative, #none - so that text can be parsed)