Volunteer Webmaster Quiz
We welcome new volunteers to join the GNU webmasters group. Since our philosophy is so important to us, we have a small quiz and background questions for potential webmasters. If you are interested, please take a look.
- What is Linux? What is GNU/Linux? In what way is gNewSense different from Ubuntu?
- In your own words, what is the Free Software Foundation, and what is its purpose?
- What is open source? What is free software? Give an example of something that is open source but not free software.
- Are you generally familiar and comfortable with the essays and positions that GNU and FSF take, as stated on our philosophy page?
- Is it possible to sell free software? Give an example of how selling free software might work.
- Please read our guidelines for web site volunteers if you haven't already. Are you comfortable with the information there?
- How experienced are you with HTML, CSS, Server side includes, CVS and GNU Emacs?
- Currently, a large amount of webmastering work involves bringing pages up to date and putting them into a template. While not exactly glamourous, this is a very important part of our work. Are you happy with this?
- How much time can you currently commit to webmastering? (Of course, this can be changed at any time, but helps determine where you can best help initially.)
- Please write a few words about your computer set up - operating system, text editor, etc.
Of course, if you have any questions, feel free to ask on Freenode in #gnu-webmasters. Thanks for your interest!
Ready? Email your completed quiz to chief-webmaster@gnu.org. Please put 'I want to be a GNU Webmaster' in the subject line. Any submissions without this in the subject line will be rejected. Applications should be made only in plain text, in the body of your email. Any PDF, RTF, etc applications will be ignored.
Please wait 2-3 weeks to hear about your application. Good luck.