Folks, I heartily encourage anyone who can contribute to this project to participate. I'm working with Dave and his team to figure out what pieces need to be built and I'll be rolling up my sleeves and helping out (although I won't be able to travel to SnapCamp this month.)
So, please join me in helping build tools to help people help each other. Thanks, David On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Dave Angulo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<liftweb%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics -- 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.
