Hey Kris! I love that you're working on microdonations... it seems like an area full of opportunity!
One thing I'm not super thrilled about though is the gratuitous use of scantily clad, sexually-compliant woman to sell things... even if it is "for a good cause". There's too much woman-as-sex-objects in the media already, not enough woman-as-people-with-ideas-and-autonomy. And I don't think it really makes your pitch very well anyway. As I understand it the young lady is supposed to represent "fun".... and you're sort of alienating large swaths of the population who don't necessarily see moistened sexually compliant 18 yr old girls as "fun" (gay men, straight women, feminists of all genders, people over the age of 40, conservatives, christians, etc...) Maybe kids running through a sprinkler or something would get the message across more universally and less offensively. With love, Erik On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Kristopher Schlesser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Patrick - > > I've got a project that I've been developing for over a year and a half and > have been wanting to present to the group for quite some time. We're still > in development, but I think the system's presentable. It's called > HappyFridays. You can check out our teaser site and some background info at > http://happyfridays.org > > Happy Fridays, Inc is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization whose > mission is to be the most efficient fund-raising entity on the internet. We > believe we've got an innovative approach that engages young people with a > fun online experience that will raise lots of money for many worthy causes. > > We've already earned the respect and support of some of the > highest-performing and most-respected non-profit organizations on the planet > like Breast Cancer Research Foundation and we're building steam every day. > > I'm interested in exploring the idea of open sourcing the ongoing > development of the project. If you're amenable, I'd love to present the > project to the group and see what everyone thinks. > > Best regards, > > Kris > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Patrick Crowley <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> We're meeting next week, and we need some speakers. >> >> Brad, are you still down for talking about Ruby 1.9? >> >> Everyone else... should we do lightning talks this time? >> >> -- Patrick >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
