[Rubyforchange-talk] Ideas for charity events

[Ryan Daigle]

I think this is a great idea.

The biggest issue I see with any project is the management aspect.  Who is
the domain expert in this particular situation and who will drive the
development team, however remote they are?

-Ryan

On 8/14/07, Chad Fowler <chad at chadfowler.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/14/07, Michael D. Ivey <ivey at gweezlebur.com> wrote:
> > What about building some reusable components that would be useful for
> > multiple non-profits?  A NPO/NGO plugin/gem collection, perhaps.
>
>
> I think this is a good idea, but I'd like to start on something more
> concrete and less infrastrcturey at first.  Partially because I'd like
> to extract such components (frameworks) from real application work.
>
> That being said, one obvious application we could get started on would
> be a hosted app/place for matching volunteers with projects and/or
> their regions.  Perhaps a non-profit could come intot he site and look
> for a local developer that could help lead an open-source
> charity-based project as part of the Ruby For Change umbrella.  What
> do you all think about that as something to start hacking?
>
> Chad
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