Onboarding

As a Volunteer

1. Sign up

You have two ways to create an account:

• Google OAuth. Click "Sign in with Google" on the login page. Your display name comes across automatically. If you already have an account with the same email — verified or not — Google sign-in links to it rather than creating a duplicate (the OAuth callback checks verified UserEmails, then unverified UserEmails, then User.Email).
• Magic link. Enter your email and click "Send me a login link". You receive a one-time link that expires in 15 minutes. If no account exists yet, the same flow creates one (via the "Complete signup" page) and asks you for a burner name and your first and last name. To prevent email-scanner replay, the link goes to a landing page with a confirm button — clicking the button is what actually signs you in.

If your email was imported from a mailing list, your account already exists and clicking your first magic link claims it.

2. Complete your profile

The very first thing the app asks for is your name. However you signed in, until you've set a burner name and your legal first and last name, the app sends you to a short "let's start with your name" form before anything else opens up — you can't browse the rest of the site nameless. (This never blocks signing in; it only redirects you to the name form once you're in.) Once your name is saved, the gate lifts on your next click.

After that, profile setup asks for your pronouns, location, bio, birthday, and any contact fields you want to share. An emergency contact is optional but recommended.

A separate step (/Profile/Me/ShiftInfo) walks you through your skills, work-style preferences, and languages. Coordinators search by skill to find the right person for a role, so a thin profile is harder to place — fill these in honestly and fully even if you're not sure what you'll end up doing.

During this one-shot setup you also see a tier selector. Leave it on Volunteer unless you want to apply for Colaborador or Asociado — picking one reveals a short inline application form submitted alongside your profile. After initial onboarding, the profile edit page shows profile fields only; the tier selector does not reappear.

3. Sign the required legal documents

Visit /Consent and sign each required document. Signatures are append-only — they cannot be edited or deleted. You enter the Volunteers team once you have entered your legal name and signed all required documents.

4. Become an active Volunteer

When you enter your legal name, your stored UserState becomes Active and the app opens. When you have a legal name and all required documents are signed, the scheduled system-team sync adds you to the Volunteers Google Workspace provisioning group. Only a rejected signup (which records a rejection timestamp and reason) removes you from the Volunteers team.

While you are still onboarding, you can reach your profile, consents, issue filing, legal documents, public camp pages, calendar, and the home dashboard — most of the app is gated until you are active.