Volunteerism Group Restarts Web Page
Bob Starbuck
T
he web page, re-established due to
the work of Tom Short and ASA
Webmaster Ryan Bell, contains
Donate Books, Help Latin America
links to a number of documents. It also
provides a forum for volunteer opportuni-
Jorge Luis Romeu, Research Professor, Syracuse University
ties; however, to post information to the
forum, you will need to register as a user
ASA volunteer members of the Juarez Lincoln Marti (JLM) Project were in
following the instructions below.
Mexico recently, delivering two boxes of statistics textbooks weighing 45
pounds each. These books were donated to the state universities in Puebla
• Click on “register” in the login box at
(BUAP) and Mexico City (IPN). In addition, JLM group members had working
the upper right corner of the page
• Create a user name (case-sensitive)
meetings with BUAP officers to help them establish links with American
• Enter “volunteerismsig” as the pass code
institutions. Group members also gave a talk about how American engineers
to register
learn statistics on their own, after leaving college.
• Enter the registration code that appears
on the screen
JLM is always in need of books. Throughout its 15-year existence, members
• Create and repeat a password
have sent dozens of boxes with literally hundreds of textbooks to small,
• Enter your email address
provincial state institutions of higher learning, but JLM has depleted its funds
An email will be sent to you granting com-
for mailing such boxes. Therefore, JLM members are helping by establishing
plete access to the wiki. Note that anyone can
links between donors—here in the United States and among interested
access the wiki, but only registered users can
institutions in Latin America—that would pay for mailing textbooks. Recently,
post to the forums. Eventually, other features
JLM received more than a half dozen requests for textbooks donated by an
may be installed that require registration.
ASA member.
A vision for the web page is to encourage
“grassroots” pro-bono activity without the
Anyone interested in donating textbooks or journals they no longer use
need for “top-down” organization of projects.
should contact a JLM member at
matresearch@cortland.edu. To learn more
The forum should enable users to post volun-
about the JLM project, visit
http://web.cortland.edu/matresearch.
teering opportunities or express an interest in
participating in volunteering activities.
Pro bono volunteer work by ASA mem-
bers has been, and continues to be, a val-
ued contribution to the societies in which
we live. However, any work arrangement
comes with the possibility of legal action
by a dissatisfied customer. To minimize the
likelihood of such action, a legally reviewed
document was created for incorporation
into a contract for pro bono work and is
available at
www.amstat-online.org/sig/
volunteerism/tiki-index.php in the Pro Bono
Work section.
If you have a document you would like to
add to the web page, contact Bob Starbuck
at
RRS49@comcast.net. Questions about
the special interest group, itself, should be
directed to Starbuck or Shail Butani (Butani.
Shail@bls.gov). Direct questions about the
wiki to Tom Short at
TShort@iup.edu . ■
MAY 2008 AMSTAT NEWS 9
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