Join the U.S. Digital Service

Re:Join the U.S. Digital Service by joshdotsmith on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:47AM (#8989056)

I wish there were something like this akin to the National Guard. If I could serve a weekend a month (or maybe even more, if it were something closer to my civilian skill set), I probably would have opted for this over joining the Army.

Hell, if they did that, I'd probably serve after my time in the Guard is up.

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Re:Join the U.S. Digital Service by diafygi on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:49AM (#8989310)

You're in luck! In most cities, there are Code for America "Brigades" that are meetup groups where people can work on digital public service projects.

http://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/

For example, I'm in the SF brigade and work on the BallotAPI project.

https://github.com/sfbrigade/ballotapi

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Re:Join the U.S. Digital Service by catherinedevlin on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:52AM (#8989072)

Well, there is Code for America. That's a volunteer organization not actually within the government, so it's not a terribly close analogy, but it's still one means of digital civic service that stops short of full-time.

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Re:Join the U.S. Digital Service by Terr_ on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @01:33AM (#8989178)

Contrary to all evidence of my puny physique, I'd still be afraid of getting dragooned/stop-lossed into overseas adventurism.

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