Awesome!
You guys rock!

Richie

On Mar 5, 12:39 pm, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm up for helping out with this, although I won't be at Rails Camp
> (and will be overseas for 3 weeks in a week).
>
> Give me a shout about this or other pro bono ideas. I imagine a coding
> session in Melbourne could be organized for these sorts of things,
> needn't be limited to Rails Camps.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
>
> On Mar 5, 11:05 am, RichardKhoo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>

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