[Rubyforchange-talk] Ideas for charity events

[Helder Ribeiro]

2007/8/14, Evan David Light <evan at tiggerpalace.com>:
> Wouldn't we start by surveying the community?  For instance, there is
> already http://www.volunteermatch.org/.

Yeah, the idea is great, but it's nice to know it's applicability and
if there's an actual need for it. As I said, I'm affraid of us
developing something that's gonna be left aside and not actually have
any impact. The ideal would be to work on something that's *already*
being used and already helps people somehow.

Maybe we could talk to volunteermatch and help them out (i don't know
if they're open source or what)? Or maybe we can build something
specifically focused on getting geeks hooked up with volunteering
organizations, which would be a twist worth the apparent redundancy
(if there is actually a need for it). Or maybe we could go up to the
NGOs and ask them what is it that they need the most. Does anyone have
that kind of connection?

Actually, perhaps we could even try and find something worth working
on that is already being asked for at volunteermatch. If we start
getting the tech requests done, it might drive more NGOs to post tech
requests at volunteermatch and we'll have a strong channel through
which we can find truly relevant and asked-for stuff to do.

What do you guys think?


Cheers,

Helder

>
>
> On Aug 14, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Tony Devlin wrote:
> This is a great idea for our first application.  It's something that is
> usable right from the start.
>
> We will need someone who will volunteer managing the progress, perhaps a
> basecamp for this? or some other tools we have access too for collaboration
> and project outlining.
>
> Any ideas?  When do we start?
>
>
>
> 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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