Are you offering to push tgis prokect forward to completion?
-Ben On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 1:59 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
