For organizations

OSVolunteer is for a group that needs people at set times: a fair's gates and barns, a league's concession stand, a school's reading buddies, a pantry's distribution day. Everything below is in the repository's README.

What volunteers do

• Find a shift by program, see when, where to meet, what they'll do and what to bring, and how many places are left right now.
• Sign up with a name and an email address, optionally a phone and a note. No account and no password.
• Keep their private link: it shows their sign-up, adds it to a calendar and cancels it. Only a fingerprint of the link is stored, so it can't be sent again.
• Send their hours after the shift, and ask for a statement of their approved hours by email (the link works for 24 hours).

What coordinators do

• Sign in with an emailed link, or a passkey added on their account page: a fingerprint, face, PIN or security key.
• Add programs (with the place, access for volunteers, a minimum age and a partner's page) and shifts (with the places needed).
• See who's coming and who's waiting, cancel a sign-up, download the list as a spreadsheet file.
• Change a published shift's date, times or places; the reason they give is shown publicly with the change.
• Cancel a shift with a reason; everyone on it is told.
• After a shift, mark who came and who didn't, approve hours volunteers sent, and enter hours for walk-ins.

Accessible

Every page is checked against WCAG 2.1 A and AA on every change, at desktop and phone widths. Pages run no script except on the coordinator sign-in and account pages. Each program says what access volunteers can expect, such as step-free routes and seated jobs.

What it doesn't do yet

• Volunteers don't have accounts: each sign-up has its own private link.
• The demo sends no email. Your own copy sends confirmations and reminders once your domain is set up for sending (Cloudflare Email Sending, or Amazon SES).
• The steps to run your own copy haven't yet been rehearsed by someone new.