It is very easy to get involved in our work. And best of all, the amount of time you contribute is entirely under your control.

Our goal is find projects that interest you while moving us closer to realizing our long term vision.

To keep track of volunteer opportunities, we use the VolunteerMatch service, a link to which you can find in our left sidebar.

Just click on their logo and you will be transported to our listings on their site.

If you don't see an open project listed there that tickles your fancy, just Contact Us and we can discuss how we can best leverage your unique skills and talents.

N.B. Since we are a virtual organization with no physical offices we are unable to provide verification of the amount of time you expend on our behalf. Accordingly, IEUC Service can not be used to fulfill any Court Ordered Community Service that may be mandated as part of a sentence or otherwise required under a plea bargain agreement.

You don't have to be an engineer or skilled programmer to make a substantive contribution to our activites.

We need input for ordinary End Users. Tell us what irks you about todays systems, what exciting new gadgets or cutting edge advances you've heard about and wish you could get your hands son, and what Orphaned Technologies you still depend on or regrett having lost to software incompatibilities.

You can help us to design programming languages that work the way you think.

You can surf the web and flag articles and projects of potential interest for us to look at.

You can help us spread the word about our activities and help us attract potential donors.

In short, even if you find your VCR intimidating, you can help us make your world more user friendly.

While we aren't producing peer reviewed publications at this point in time, we do attract a broad audience to our website that reaches beyond pure academics.

If you want to comment on standards and technologies, share some web design or programming tricks, contribute some guest blogger entries to our weblog, eulogize a departed founder of the field, author a public policy report or technology overfiew, or have us host your Master or Ph.D. disseration, we have the the back end infrastruture to put your work out there and make it a part of the public record.

If you can program, we have lots of long and short term projects that could benefit from your contributions.

In the short term, we are interested in prototyping novel visualizations and user interaction paradigms using today's tools, particularly if they are deployable over the web.

In the intermediate term, we want to develop some End User Oriented semantic web authoring tools. There is no excuse for making End Users construct complex XML styled markup by hand or mentally model the CSS Cascade Rules to make some text look legible.

We need to build tools that operate at the level of End Users rather than making End Users pre-compile their thoughts into well formed structures opmized to make life easier for the author of parsing code.

This inverts everything, making the many wast incaculable time to simplify life for the few system developers. To our minds, it makes far more sense to pour extra effort into designing smart parsers that can handle the kinds of constructs that come naturally to End Users.

In the long term, we need to think about fine grained component software architectures and new operating systems targeted for the next generation of multi-core processors.

If you want to get involved at the cutting edge, we are the place for you!

We don't just design technology, we also address the whole software development and deployment ecology. So we can use the insights of professional managers, public policy wonks, and economists.

Internally, we could greatly benefit from some accounting expertise (since we had to move our accounting function in house as a cost cutting measure). Likewise, while we have several attorneys on our Board of Directors, we can always use some more legal talent to help us explore substantive topics like Retro Computing and novel Source Code License design.

One of our primary goals is to encouarage students to pursue careers in Computer Science and Allied Disciplines.

As a Student, you are already engaged in the kinds of research and writing that would help us to bridge the gap between academia and the real world. As an IEUC Volunteer, you could help us to expand our website, prototype some ideas, or even just help us to design visuals for our future OS from a purely artistic dimension.

If you are willing to invest your time in help us, we will invest our time in mentoring you. As you complete projects and deepen your participation, we can provide you with a courtesy title, profile page, and recommendations to colleges or employeers based upon your substantive performance as a volunteer.

Serious students only need apply.