Our experience with online volunteer sign-up has been a mixed bag. That's because we discovered that roughly only about 50% of people were actually interested in signing-up online. Regardless, it would be interesting to have a dedicated reservation-type application specific to Community Bike shops that could share information with any back-end program.

In regards to sign-up interfaces, I remember your thread from September, 2015. Our Community Bikes may want to reconsider reinventing the wheel by contributing to the development of existing software projects.  I am lead developer of this project, https://github.com/fspc/Yellow-Bike-Database/wiki , and I always welcome issue requests because my objective is to develop a product that is useful to the majority of the Community Bike projects out there. 

-Jonathan

On 2018-01-13 04:09, Jesse Cooper wrote:

I guess looking for a way for volunteers to sign up remotely, and see what's available, and alternately what shifts are already spoken for. Like a reservation. It wouldn't be necessary to see the staff schedule from that end. But that the staff have a 'one click' access to the volunteer schedule to see how many folk and who are expected that day.

 And we are hoping to develop an electronic sign in / out software or app (currently the ones that are in existence don't completely meet our needs ) so we wouldn't need that in a sign up interface.  well..  

 

  mmm.. something like that.

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 12:56 AM, Jonathan Rosenbaum <gnuser@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jesse,

Are you are looking for a way for people to sign up online to volunteer while integrating that with the staff calendar, or are you looking for a way for people to electronically sign-in / out from a shop, or do you want a combination of both of these facets?

-Jonathan

On 2018-01-13 00:20, Jesse Cooper wrote:

Hey folks!

 Our Community Bikes in Vancouver, Canada, is looking for a way for volunteers to electronically sign up.

 We have some limit to how many volunteers can access the space at the same time each day, we tend to spread the labour around a bit, and we currently have used a few online services that can link to our website, but doesn't link with our current staffing calendar and event calendar.

 For that we are simply using a google calendar. But I'm wondering if anyone has had success with some type of really easy to use interface, that generates reports for metrics 'n stuff, and that is very user simple.

hmm?

 Jesse

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