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 > > -- 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.
