[Rubyforchange-talk] Ideas for charity events

[Evan David Light]

I'm a little biased in terms of charities to attempt to support.   
Anything that supports eradicating Huntington's Disease gets my  
vote.  It hits extremely close to home.  But, then, I'm sure that we  
each have our preferred charities.

On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Tony Devlin wrote:

> I think something like a hack-night would be a great idea.  I have  
> to let this idea gel for a while before I can offer any competent  
> opinions, but just wanted to send a quick agreement shout.
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> Tony Devlin
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> On 8/13/07, Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I was curious about whether or not they were planning a charity event
> at RubyConf, and upon asking Chad told me they hadn't really planned
> one yet but were open to new and interesting ideas.
>
> I though I'd post here to get a discussion going about some of the
> ideas I've had and see if anyone else has any excellent ideas.  Of
> course, a workshop is a great idea but I'm sure there's a twist on it
> that no one has tried yet...
>
> One idea I had is a twist on the Ruby for Change idea, in that you
> assemble teams of developers to do small projects for clients and then
> donate the money to a charity.   Or, you could assemble people into
> hack night groups at RubyConf or the Ruby Hoedown or whatever, and
> over the course of the conf they hack together a marketable
> product/website (e.g., ActiveReload's Warehouse) that will give its
> proceeds to charity.
>
> One idea I had and didn't get to implement at the Hoedown is a silent
> auction of stuff like books, training, hosting, etc.  It could be
> something as simple as "a copy of Beginning Ruby" to something like "a
> pair programming session with Matz."  I've seen things similar to that
> done that have yielded huge amounts of money.
>
> Anyone else have any ideas?  I hope we can kick up some good ideas for
> myself and other conference organizers to use.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Jeremy
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