Hi All, I have a proposition for the Lift community.
I am co-founder of http://SnapImpact.org, a group of volunteers in Boulder, CO. We're a 100% not for profit with no paid staff or offices, our mission is "Make Doing Good Easy". We shipped an iPhone app (SnapImpact) in August and part of the team is working on newer and better versions. In the process of building and shipping the iPhone app, we were introduced to All For Good (http:// allforgood.org). Its the data backend which powers http://serve.gov and a number of other volunteering sites. They collect data on volunteering opportunities all over the US, consolidate them, and make them available for use in websites and other applications. Over the months we've developed a close relationship with them, committing some code and working with them on some technical strategies. Our team is made up of veterans in development and business and we can draw upon the talent pool in Boulder for a number of specific tasks, so we try to help out other projects without the talent they require (usually dev) to be successful. Anyways, the allforgood.org system was hammered together very quickly and pretty much put straight into production. They are almost a year down the road and are having a bunch of issues. We have been empowered to rewrite the thing from the ground up. Several of us are using liftweb and scala on other projects, I am building my startup SpotInfluence using it, and are really impressed with the Lift community and all of the smart people involved. We plan on using it for the rewrite and train a bunch of folks here in Boulder on the technology. So here's the pitch. The AfG code is all open source. We can build a bunch of one off components that will get the job done, or we can build a bunch of re-useable components ( like a CMS for instance ) and contribute them back not only to AfG, but also the liftweb community. The wins for us are hopefully leveraging your community to help make the AfG project more successful, the wins as I see it for the liftweb community are a bunch of native components to make building webapps even easier and having those modules running in large production situation. There is lots of work to get done and we're planning a kickoff event in Boulder, Feb 19-21, to get some momentum http://www.snapimpact.org/blog/?p=468. Outside of that, we'd love to figure out how to best leverage any interest from this community to make the project successful. Thanks for your time, Dave Dave Angulo Co-founder SnapImpact [email protected] @daveangulo @snapimpact -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
