Web developers and programmers that have some experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and/or WordPress, WooCommerce, Book Lists, and WordPress Themes. The site will only require a few templates, since it will be predominately book and shopping cart driven. That said, additionally, we will need individuals with an interest or experience in DevOps— Linode, Bash, Git, etc. — our goal is to an easy-to-use, and efficient method for deploying and upgrading the system as open source software.
We need creatives and content volunteers. We'll need copywriters for web site text, to update and complete documentation for site use for the organizations's staff and volunteers. Additionally, we'll be producing materials for marketing the site and project, including a Holiday Campaign that covers #BlackFriday, #CyberMonday, and #GivingTuesday so you marketers, designers, and other creatives will have plenty to contribute. We want press releases, social media ready materials, quick videos, and more.
LGBT Books to Prisoners sends books and other educational materials, free of charge, to incarcerated LGBTQ people across the United States. We're working with them to complete a WordPress installation that will allow them to easily list their wish list of books for donors nationwide to donate, while allowing the books to purchased/sourced from local bookstores.
Basically, you'd help us set-up a visual ordering system that allows potential donors select books to contribute to the Books to Prisoners program, while allowing the non-technical staff and volunteers of the LGBT Books to Prisoners program to add, remove, promote the books they most need, and assist with order management.
We need frontend developers, data cleaning and processing, as well as content creators such as copywriters, marketers, etc. Our goal is to have fully capable book donation system for LGBT Books to Prisoners available for real world use, the next day, so that they can participate in seasonal donation pre-Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Giving Tuesday, and more.
A trans-affirming, racial justice-focused, prison abolitionist project sending books to incarcerated LGBTQ-identified people across the United States