[Rubyforchange-talk] Coding for change

[Evan David Light]

Helder,

	I'm actually writing something along those lines, albeit slowly,  
right now that will initially be aimed at caregivers and the people  
that they are caring for.  However, if/when I finish it, it will be a  
largely free application that will, ideally, be ad funded.  The idea  
came out of my and my wife's need in taking care of her day to day  
needs in a consistent fashion.

Evan

On Aug 13, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Helder Ribeiro wrote:

> Hey, guys!
>
> I'm really interested in joining this group of people who want to do
> something for the world with their talents and it's really great to
> see ideas coming up and people willing to do stuff.
>
> And as much as I like the idea of Charity Driven Development (coding
> normal stuff, getting paid and donating the money) - I might even help
> out with that -, I'd also like to see free software projects that are
> *themselves* going to directly benefit suffering people throughout the
> world.
>
> As an example, I've heard about this big complex health management
> software that is geared towards developing countries and is in active
> use in Africa. That's the sort of thing I'd like to work on, or
> something educational, etc., and something that is already in active
> use if I can help it (it's less than ideal coming up with an idea and
> maybe not having the means to actually get people to use it).
>
> Does anyone know what's the name of that medical software (can't  
> find it!)?
>
> Do you know of other projects that are in use in developing countries
> and could use some help?
>
> Do you have any ideas of projects that we could start ourselves and
> that would have that kind of impact?
>
> Thanks for listening, hope we can actually find something we can help
> people with :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Helder
>
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