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Discussion on: I am the head of platform and standards at one of the UK's largest children's charities, Ask Me Anything!

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Vuild

Good work.

I helped get a charity moving, which is still a small operation. What is the best way to find/convince devs to help out (volunteer, for now at least)? It's not a lot of hard/complex work but I've got others to deal with. It's a 1/2 technical question but I thought you may have insight. Thanks.

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Toby Osbourn

Honestly, I would focus more on getting the budget to pay developers.

If that is totally out of the question then I'd suggest contacting local hackerspaces and meetups, to see if people would be up for doing a 2-3 hour session on solving smaller well-defined issues.

Hope that helps!

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Vuild

To stay near 12% mgt numbers the tech budget has to be hyper restricted. Even at 2M+ rev, there is little there (back/front/seo/marketing etc).

Hackerspace support on specific items is interesting thanks. 👍