Becoming a volunteer for Boundless

Open source contributor

Congratulations on passing your interview!

Before you become an official volunteer of Boundless, we have everyone contribute to our open source projects for about 60 days to ensure everyone has the ability to warm up to the sort of work done by our professional team.

This warm up allows you to learn about Boundless, how we operate and what we are creating together at a reasonable pace.

This method trades the time demanding process of a traditional HR system with a more casual process. Significant amount of self-initiative will be required to follow our articles, read and take action accordingly. 

Our method 

Boundless uses World Lab to train people to rethink operations as a bottom-up system rather than a top-down hierarchy. 

Boundless believe strongly in:

• Self-organizing teams
• Servant leadership
• Valuing individual expertise rather than enforcing top-down management. 

This bottom-up approach to development requires considerable self-initiative that unlocks creativity at the cost of a cumbersome top-down process. 

In World Lab you may feel this process unstructured but this is intentional. This way of doing things offers teams more flexibility and autonomy than traditional workspaces. However, by itself, the structure is insufficient. That needed structure comes in once you are an actual volunteer.