[Rubyforchange-talk] Coding for change

[Evan David Light]

I'll second that.

Now who are we nominating for lynching?  Oh, right, we're not playing  
Werewolf. ;-)

I'll still second it.

On Aug 14, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Chad Fowler wrote:

> On 8/13/07, Helder Ribeiro <helder at gmail.com> 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 :-)
>>
>
> Helder, your sentiments here exactly mirror mine.  My primary goal for
> my involvement in this group is to establish a sustainable process for
> churning out impactful projects that solve real problems, as opposed
> to focusing on fundraising.  Fundraising is also good, and I think we
> can do both, but to me the real value in having smart programmers
> involved in a cause like this is that we are smart, passionate people
> applying our creative and analytical minds to real problems.  There's
> a lot more value in that than the financial giving we can and should
> also be doing.
>
> Thanks!
> Chad
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