Likewise, many many people of various abilities or lack there of participate in fundraising (which we all should, as Chad pointed out), but the real difference here is that we are able to give in a way that a wide majority of people can not.
<br><br>This is the reason why I want to participate in this group, we look beyond mere financial help and work on ways of improving the lives of these nonprofit organizations. It's a domino effect or a pay-it-forward type effect.
<br><br>Tony Devlin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Evan David Light</b> <<a href="mailto:evan@tiggerpalace.com">evan@tiggerpalace.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;">
I'll second that.<br><br>Now who are we nominating for lynching? Oh, right, we're not playing<br>Werewolf. ;-)<br><br>I'll still second it.<br><br>On Aug 14, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Chad Fowler wrote:<br><br>> On 8/13/07, Helder Ribeiro <
<a href="mailto:helder@gmail.com">helder@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Hey, guys!<br>>><br>>> I'm really interested in joining this group of people who want to do<br>>> something for the world with their talents and it's really great to
<br>>> see ideas coming up and people willing to do stuff.<br>>><br>>> And as much as I like the idea of Charity Driven Development (coding<br>>> normal stuff, getting paid and donating the money) - I might even
<br>>> help<br>>> out with that -, I'd also like to see free software projects that are<br>>> *themselves* going to directly benefit suffering people throughout<br>>> the<br>>> world.<br>
>><br>>> As an example, I've heard about this big complex health management<br>>> software that is geared towards developing countries and is in active<br>>> use in Africa. That's the sort of thing I'd like to work on, or
<br>>> something educational, etc., and something that is already in active<br>>> use if I can help it (it's less than ideal coming up with an idea and<br>>> maybe not having the means to actually get people to use it).
<br>>><br>>> Does anyone know what's the name of that medical software (can't<br>>> find it!)?<br>>><br>>> Do you know of other projects that are in use in developing countries<br>>> and could use some help?
<br>>><br>>> Do you have any ideas of projects that we could start ourselves and<br>>> that would have that kind of impact?<br>>><br>>> Thanks for listening, hope we can actually find something we can help
<br>>> people with :-)<br>>><br>><br>> Helder, your sentiments here exactly mirror mine. My primary goal for<br>> my involvement in this group is to establish a sustainable process for<br>> churning out impactful projects that solve real problems, as opposed
<br>> to focusing on fundraising. Fundraising is also good, and I think we<br>> can do both, but to me the real value in having smart programmers<br>> involved in a cause like this is that we are smart, passionate people
<br>> applying our creative and analytical minds to real problems. There's<br>> a lot more value in that than the financial giving we can and should<br>> also be doing.<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>> Chad<br>
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