Joining a BeWelcome team

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Being a member of the non-profit organisation BeVolunteer is not required to help with the project BeWelcome! You can simply join one (or more) of the teams to start volunteering. Applying should be quite easy now.

You want to join?

Follow these steps to become member of a team:

Open an account on our Public forum. (Please sign up with your existing username if you are a member of BeWelcome or another hospitality exchange network).
Apply for the corresponding team once your account is activated. This might take a day or two.
The team coordinator will try to explain everything to you and you should be able to help soon!
- You will be able to access the internal parts of the forum.
- You will get a user account on this wiki and you will be able to view and edit (almost) all pages here.

Most needed skills and experience

programmers (php, mySQL, javascript)
web designers (html, CSS, web usability)
translators and proofreaders
thoughtful authors with web writing experience
people with nonprofit/NGO background
people with experience in open-source software projects
french law experts

The teams

Software Development	-	develops the software for BeWelcome
Design	-	gives BeWelcome a great look and usability
New Features	-	collects, prepares and develops all our innovative ideas and feedback from members
Geography	-	keeps our geographic database clean
Testing	-	hunts down bugs and checks usability flow
Server admin	-	keeps our Server running
Text / Web writing	-	(proposed team) - would write texts for our webpages
Translation	-	will make BeWelcome available in many languages
Public Relations and Communication	-	communicates with the members and the public
Acceptation of members	-	welcomes our members and helps with the sign up process
Forum moderation	-	moderates the BeWelcome Forum
Groups management	-	manages the different groups
Support	-	will find an answer for your burning questions
Abuse	-	guarantees a friendly and secure project and work environment
Local Volunteers management	-	manages the local volunteers
Legal Team	-	provides legal advice, helps with official communication
Volunteers Management	-	helps to manage our volunteers
Internal Communications	-	optimize communication flows between volunteers, teams and bw members
Wiki maintenance	-	takes care of the wiki