# Request for Comment: New Volunteer Guide **URL:** \ **Category:** Community\ **Tags:** documentation\ **Created:** [November 17, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/request-for-comment-new-volunteer-guide/30987 "2020-11-17T09:05:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madhens](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/madhens/32/12134_2.png) [@madhens](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/madhens)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/request-for-comment-new-volunteer-guide/30987/1 "2020-11-17T09:05:43Z")
In anticipation of tomorrow’s call, I’ve revised a Wiki page that seemed to be a stab at an early volunteer guide. This is a very rough draft, and I’ve marked it as such, but this is the overall structure at present, with as many of the content links as I could add. The content will definitely need work, as a lot of those sentences are placeholders, but I am looking forward to feedback about what is there! > **[New Volunteer Guide - Documentation - OpenMRS Wiki](https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/New+Volunteer+Guide)** Also, this page links twice to Rainbow’s documentation, in **Setup Tools** and **How to Contribute** , to help the two documents work together. See everyone at the meeting! ---
**Author:** ![rainbow](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/rainbow/32/12839_2.png) [@rainbow](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/rainbow)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/request-for-comment-new-volunteer-guide/30987/2 "2020-11-17T11:36:44Z")
@madhens looks great! And thanks for linking to the pages that I am working on. 😊I think it would be great to show the links to community calendars as suggested by @grace in my [draft](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zDFy6HOf4M4ESZdj6AuF017JdD_-gcetiAE7kFueZw0/edit). See the text in pink. ---
**Author:** ![madhens](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/madhens/32/12134_2.png) [@madhens](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/madhens)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/request-for-comment-new-volunteer-guide/30987/3 "2020-11-17T15:08:42Z")
Here is a link to a version of the page on Google Docs so people can leave comments: ## About OpenMRS (Short, dynamic paragraph about the organization, focused on the community and their crucial role in both building it in the past and leading it into the future.) > **[Volunteer Guide Landing Page](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TRaCRdySgqRXzCH5OMMCB8FCh4O13i6qYnFonIED4z0/edit?usp=sharing)** > > Why Volunteer? Thank you for your interest in joining the global OpenMRS Community! Your contributions help OpenMRS create a robust, scalable, user-driven, open source medical record system platform to improve health care delivery in... ---
**Author:** ![jwnasambu](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/jwnasambu/32/13543_2.png) [@jwnasambu](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/jwnasambu)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/request-for-comment-new-volunteer-guide/30987/4 "2020-11-17T17:04:52Z")
I got a chance of reading the draft on the wiki and I must admit you have done an excellent job I will share my observations on the google doc later. Once again! congratulations for this far. ---
**Author:** ![herbert24](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/herbert24/32/8178_2.png) [@herbert24](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/herbert24)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/request-for-comment-new-volunteer-guide/30987/5 "2020-11-19T09:31:21Z")
@madhens well done on this,i added a few comments on the google doc ---
**Author:** ![madhens](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/madhens/32/12134_2.png) [@madhens](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/madhens)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/request-for-comment-new-volunteer-guide/30987/6 "2020-11-20T06:05:44Z")
Thank you so much, Juliet! ---
**Author:** ![madhens](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/madhens/32/12134_2.png) [@madhens](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/madhens)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 6:06am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/request-for-comment-new-volunteer-guide/30987/7 "2020-11-20T06:06:41Z")
Thanks, Herbert! I got your comments and I agree, Setup Tools (which I shamelessly borrowed from People Powered) should be changed to a better name! ---
**Author:** ![gracebish](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/gracebish/32/13547_2.png) [@gracebish](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/gracebish)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/request-for-comment-new-volunteer-guide/30987/8 "2020-11-24T15:52:53Z")
Great work Monica ---
**Author:** ![madhens](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/madhens/32/12134_2.png) [@madhens](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/madhens)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/request-for-comment-new-volunteer-guide/30987/9 "2020-11-30T16:36:14Z")
New draft of the [Volunteer Guide](https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/New+Volunteer+Guide) is done, with embedded Gliffy and an embedded meeting calendar, so new volunteers can easily see what teams and squads are meeting that week and when! The new video isn’t embedded, since the specific macro doesn’t handle videos on Google Drive well. If the video can be uploaded to YouTube, however, it should embed just fine. Thank you all for your feedback, and the next major stage is helping teams and squads with their specific info for new volunteers, as well as developing the Community Leadership Guide (aka, the guide for existing volunteers who have been here a while and want to challenge themselves and help the community in a different way). ---
**Author:** ![herbert24](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/herbert24/32/8178_2.png) [@herbert24](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/herbert24)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 9:23am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/request-for-comment-new-volunteer-guide/30987/10 "2020-12-01T09:23:27Z")
thanks monica for all the works!!