21st April 2011, 03:58 PM
Sith Wrote:Really, I can't say I've seen much evidence of that.
I think by reliability we are talking in terms of project management. With the best will in the world, volunteers are under no obligation to turn up for the same hours as paid staff (although I know many do, indeed I was one of them). As a result, it would be impossible to accurately forecast the end date of any fieldwork that relied heavily on volunteers.
but if you had a sufficiently large pool of volunteers that wouldn't necessarily matter - some ROs already do it
my question to the volunteers is 'do you want to work for nothing alongside people who are being paid to do it and if so why'?