<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Wouldn't we start by surveying the community? For instance, there is already <A href="http://www.volunteermatch.org">http://www.volunteermatch.org</A>/.<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 14, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Tony Devlin wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">This is a great idea for our first application. It's something that is usable right from the start.<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>Any ideas? When do we start?<BR><BR><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>_______________________________________________<BR>Rubyforchange-talk mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Rubyforchange-talk@rubyforge.org">Rubyforchange-talk@rubyforge.org </A><BR><A href="http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubyforchange-talk">http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubyforchange-talk</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Rubyforchange-talk mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Rubyforchange-talk@rubyforge.org">Rubyforchange-talk@rubyforge.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubyforchange-talk">http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubyforchange-talk</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>