This message is partly "plug-talk" but mostly "plug", because the core of it is assembling bits of open source software for planning, delivery, and fulfillment. What open source software components are usable, and who can assemble a team and deliver applications and procedures RIGHT NOW ONLY?
The problems: 1) grocery stores are swamped with disease-spreading customers stripping the shelves. 2) sit-down restaurants are shuttered and staffs are laid off. The opportunity: Can we use software and the internet to convert those idle restaurants (with their kitchens, refrigerators, tables, parking lots, and food-permit-trained staffs) into expansion hubs for home delivery of groceries and sundries to homebound customers? Real Soon Now? Can we use software to quickly train idled taxi drivers as additional food-permitted delivery staff? VERY QUICKLY, by repurposing and combining disparate open source software components? ------- I'd love to get those people back to work, safely, and vastly expand our ability to deliver groceries and other items to responsible self-isolated people. I'm *NOT* mentioning this here to begin a lot of plug-talk chatter, but to engage the talents and entrepreneurial energies of capable, imaginative, available, and speedy programmers to delete the defects from my brainfart and start hacking together prototypes NOW. Untalented folks like me and most others can chatter about it on plug-talk. I don't expect the most capable and hard-working programmers have time to chat, but they might have time to learn Linux specifics here. So, the plug list for software implementation (what and how), the plug-talk list for discussing why and where. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
