GloPos - Help Wanted

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Want to help out? GloPos is a non-profit webzine that's just starting up, and we welcome any and all voluntary contributions from the student and young adult community. Anyone can join - Victorians past and present, and non-Victorians too.

While we can't promise to publish everything you send us, we will give all contributions our fullest consideration, evaluating them according to our current objectives and goals. Style is subjective, we agree. But being what we are, we prize intelligent (there is so little of that nowadays, wouldn't you agree?), humorous and lively pieces greatly. These contributions are paid for with good karma.

If you would like to join our pool of freelancers (see below for more details on the roles we have), please provide us with some details about your work experience, personal data (i.e. age, qualifications, areas of interest, etc.) and attach samples of your past work. Pictorial ideas such as comics and photographs are also welcome. If you're interested in any of these posts, send a summary of your skills and desired position to glopos@go.to.

GloPos Volunteer Positions

Aces
Aces will be primarily active in the Activism Centre (i.e. Forum...plus eventually the Polls and Online Petitions if we can find the right PHP or ASP scripts). They'll be responsible for starting up and moderating threads, as well as welcoming newbie posters and assisting them in becoming active and experienced posters to the GloPos Forum.

Scouts
Scouts will be responsible for thinking up possible angles for new articles as well as sourcing for people to write these articles. They may also undertake mini-research projects to supplement an issue (for e.g. if an issue is thematically based upon the subject of education, the Scouts may want to come up with a list of interesting educational statistics so as to supplement the rest of the articles in that issue).

Gurus
Guru

Community Artists
Artists will contribute the art for articles or work on downloadables such as wallpapers, icons and screensavers to help with the site's branding.

s will deal with technical issues, such as HTML editing and shifting current issue into the archive once a new issue of GloPos is ready. Gurus will also work with Aces, Researchers and Community Artists on preparing subsequent site updates and revamps.

Researchers
We are always looking for fresh articles on GloPos, and try to roll out 4 to 6 feature articles each month. There is no commitment to write another article.

Articles should be between 1200 to 1500 words and pertain to local issues, or global issues as seen through local lenses.

When an article gets too lengthy or a topic is so large that it can't be explained easily in one article, a series of articles is recommended. A series can be any amount of articles from 2 to 12. More than that and you should seriously consider writing a regular column on the subject.

We prefer to get as many of a series up front as possible. It makes things easier if we know what you are trying to accomplish with the series before we start publishing it. Submitting a schedule of articles with a brief outline of each is appreciated prior to actually sending the articles.
You can also contribute to the 'Two Line Revue,' our regular review column, or propose a column of your own (although you should be forewarned that this will require a high level of commitment. All articles are due on the 11th of each month.

Advocate
You can also really help by checking out the GloPos buttons and banners on our Downloads page and posting them on your site. Also tell your friends about us if you liked this site. Word of mouth is always the best form of publicity.