The folks over at Be Hands On came up with an interesting concept for getting people motivated: help volunteers measure the impact they have on the community.

They developed a process for recording and calculating the impact and letting volunteers share that with other people. The entire concept is organized around a social networking site where people can find issues and projects to volunteer for that have real significance to them.

And so Be Hands On was born. My role in the project was to help theme the design given to the developers over-top the Drupal content management system. It was a team effort, and I’m proud of my role within it.