{"id":291,"date":"2018-10-18T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T10:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/?page_id=291"},"modified":"2019-10-14T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:30:09","slug":"volunteer-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/volunteer-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Involved!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We are an entirely volunteer-driven project, and rely utterly on people who are prepared to give a little of their time and expertise to help us move forward. Here is a list of things that we could do with some help with right now. To get involved, please either <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk\/t.astarte\/\">contact Troy, our Chair<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.ncl.ac.uk\/wws\/info\/cs-historic-committee\">join the mailing list<\/a> and post a hello message. We can arrange to meet the other volunteers and demonstrate the collections and artefacts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Social media management<\/strong> &#8211; help us get the word out to more people. Can we \/ should we have a Twitter or Facebook presence? Or Instagram? How should we communicate in an accessible way for newcomers: is the mailing list unwelcoming? What could we use instead? Are we using this Blog properly?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Virtual Reality Museum<\/strong> &#8211; getting the VR museum working; publishing the source code; making improvements; arranging for it to go &#8220;on tour&#8221; to headsets around campus including the Student&#8217;s Union<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Planning future exhibits<\/strong> &#8211; Do you have an idea for a story of the University&#8217;s history that could be told using our artefacts? Would you like to get involved in future exhibit planning? We are in the early stages of planning a computer games related exhibit.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Interactive solutions<\/strong> &#8211; we want to make some of our exhibits interactive. This will involve programming embedded computers (Raspberry Pi) or microcontrollers and exploring technologies like e-ink displays, Infrared sensors, to activate individual LED lights<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Curating photos and videos<\/strong> &#8211; we are deploying sets of digital photo frames and video screens and need help to curate relevant photos and videos to display on them<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Cataloguing documents<\/strong> &#8211; we have large folders of historic documentation that need to be sorted and catalogued, and in some cases scanned to make digital copies available<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Cataloguing artefacts<\/strong> &#8211; we have some artefacts that are not yet catalogued, and need to be researched to get a description of them, take photos, etc.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Designing our digital archive system<\/strong> &#8211; we need a robust digital archive system to make our collection accessible via the web<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Building a site map for MOCA &#8211; <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/moca.ncl.ac.uk\/\">The Roger Broughton Museum of Computing Artefacts website<\/a> would benefit from a sitemap page that listed all of site&#8217;s various sub-pages in one convenient index. Identifying and fixing broken links on the site is another possible task.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slide Scanning<\/strong> &#8211; we have a large collection of historic slides to scan and archive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are an entirely volunteer-driven project, and rely utterly on people who are prepared to give a little of their time and expertise to help us move forward. 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