I think this is a great idea.<br><br>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?
<br><br>-Ryan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chad Fowler</b> <<a href="mailto:chad@chadfowler.com">chad@chadfowler.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 8/14/07, Michael D. Ivey <<a href="mailto:ivey@gweezlebur.com">ivey@gweezlebur.com</a>> wrote:<br>> What about building some reusable components that would be useful for<br>> multiple non-profits? A NPO/NGO plugin/gem collection, perhaps.
<br><br><br>I think this is a good idea, but I'd like to start on something more<br>concrete and less infrastrcturey at first. Partially because I'd like<br>to extract such components (frameworks) from real application work.
<br><br>That being said, one obvious application we could get started on would<br>be a hosted app/place for matching volunteers with projects and/or<br>their regions. Perhaps a non-profit could come intot he site and look
<br>for a local developer that could help lead an open-source<br>charity-based project as part of the Ruby For Change umbrella. What<br>do you all think about that as something to start hacking?<br><br>Chad<br>_______________________________________________
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