This would be awesome for our charity 'Carpets for Communities'. We identify kids who are working and begging at the Thai/Cambodia border and at risk of child trafficking and we then meet their mums and offer them work creating awesome eco/fair trade rugs from home.
We then ship the rugs over here and as volunteers we all sell their rugs at markets across Australia. The rug making provides the family with a replacement income so the women can then afford to bring the younger kids home and send their children to school. Education is critical to helping break the cycle of poverty. We have been envisanging an awesome rails app to manage our volunteers and details of our participants their children and the products they produce. Everything runs off google docs at the moment. The better our information systems, the better things run, the more rugs we sell, the more families we can take on. So this would be perfect if anyone is interested to help us out. Check us out here: www.carpetsforcommunities.org I'll talk to the crew and get some more details up on the wiki or whatever soon. Cheers Richie Ps. We have market stalls selling awesome rugs at markets in SA,NSW,VIC,QLD and WA so drop by some time and say hi! We're also at WOMAD in SA this weekend so drop by if you're there. On Mar 4, 12:45 pm, Tim Lucas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/03/2010, at 1:30 PM, Daryl Manning <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The next generation of our campaigning platform is in Rails but we > > have loads of side projects/features/ideas we never have enough > > people/time/space/bandwidth to get to. > > > Throw them on the wiki ? > > Yes!! > > -- tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en.
