1. Getting Started
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the Carleton Computer Science Society (CCSS)! This guide will help you get involved and contribute to our vibrant community.
To begin your journey as a volunteer, you need to express your interest by:
- Completing a Volunteer Form: These forms are distributed throughout the year and will be promoted on social media when they are available.
- Contacting a Board of Directors (BOD) Member: Reach out via Discord or email ([email protected]).
Upon expression interest to a member of our team, you will be added to the Volunteer Discord Server.
Our primary platform for planning and discussions is the CCSS Volunteer Discord Server, which functions similarly to a Slack workspace. This is a separate Discord server from our "public Discord server" focused purely on volunteer activity.
All meetings volunteers are able to join are listed as public Discord events within the Discord server. If a meeting is public, you do not need to ask permission to join, as all volunteers are ALWAYS welcome.
We do our best to schedule meetings at convenient times, however they are usually scheduled around BOD members (as they have been elected by the student body) and students that have expressed interest in helping with a project or initiative. If you would like to be included in a specific meeting or discussion, ping the owner of the associated meeting.
The work category is dedicated to discussing work that has been actioned.
This channel is populated by reminders for tasks pulled from our GitHub project boards. Today it only pulls from our main board, but we hope to add more reminders in the future for other boards and teams.
These reminders are generated by a cron job maintained by our volunteers
Threads in this forum channel are created specifically for actioned "in progress" work and discussions.
Each thread should be scoped to the goal of the specific task it was created for.
Ideas and initial discussions should live in topic channels.
Topic channels are for expressing ideas, asking questions, and discussion regarding a topic.
If a discussion has evolved past the idea stage and into a task with a deadline, it should be moved into the work forum channel.