Do you want to help support those who are supporting public education against the corporate onslaught?
A new group is forming to lead the resistance and is looking for a website designer.
Needless to say, it has no money.
If you have the skills, here is a chance to volunteer.
Please contact Anthony Cody at anthony_cody@hotmail.com
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I teach courses that deal with Information Technology. Although I’m not a web designer, I manage a few sites. I will contact Anthony Cody and offer any assistance I can. However, I’d like to urge people in similar situations to keep it simple. Use a generic web platform combination like WordPress, Facebook, and Twitter. These applications are simple and are search engine friendly. Do not get bogged down with a proprietary website solution that will leave you stranded if your web design volunteer decides to move on.
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WordPress.com is excellent, free-reasonably priced, user friendly, and flexible. Though originally know as a blog host, WordPress allows people to set up what most of us think of as a “full fledged” blog, and it’s used by lots & lots of artists, small businesses, non-profits, whomever for their web sites. You can take care of registering & maintaining your domain name through them (or route it if you already have one). There are plenty of themes, big user forums, & lots of support. (Note that you don’t want WordPress.org which offers free software that you have to set up on your own computer with your own ISP. Org is, in some ways better, but it takes more effort & learning curve, which you won’t want.)
You may want to check out SquareSpace as well, and GoDaddy (a big domain register service) offers what it says is an easy web site template. Avoid Blogger; it has this weird (I think) feature which puts a “next” link in the upper right hand corner of your page, so it looks like a link to more of your page. Actually, it is a link to the next Blogger blog in some line; that blog may have nothing to do with yours — or even make yours look bad.
One word of advice: decide on your web host before you register your domain. You can reasonably easily have your domain routed to your site — so the address is http://www.ourgreatgroup.com, rather than http://www.wordpress/ourgreatgroup — but it’s simpler if you decide on WordPress as host & have them register your domain. That way you only get one bill.
Hope this helps.
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Anthony, please contact me. I may be able to help you with this. And if I can’t do it directly, I’m confident I can hook you up with people that can, and who would be happy to do this, gratis. Feel free to contact me at mrktjobs@gmail.com to follow up on this.
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Use nationbuilder. Super-easy with social networking built right in, with ways to track your supporters- so it’s your constituent database, email tool and your website. Any startup organizing entity should be on it from the start- so you avoid the messy transition in 12 months.
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