Ask HN: Do you volunteer outside of work?

Local community? No.

I have spent many hours helping people on /r/learnprogramming and in person throughout the past few years. I know it's not really giving back to those who need it most, but I think it has a net positive effect on the world if that's your thing. Me I just do it because teaching is pretty fun. I got started doing that kind of stuff while being a TA the majority of my undergrad. I would probably do this kind of stuff full time if not for money...

Not as much as I feel I should; I spend the morning helping out at a cat shelter every other weekend.

Volunteering for Habitat for Humanity can be fun. They do home repair projects for lower income homeowners in local communities. It's generally a great group of people.

FIRST Robotics https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc