Hey there, it’s great to see people wanting to take initiative for humanitarian projects. It shows that we are doing things for the right reasons <3
FWIW, there are a few organisations of the “hack for good”-type. Any particular names elude me, but this exists ;) As for the Ebola project in particular, I was part of that and we wouldn’t have been able to work with outside volunteers. The pressures in this project were so high, that it required a dedicated and in-one-office team to make it work at all. This is just as a perspective, that some of these things can’t be done in the more traditional open source way, even though many good open source projects came out of it. For example: - https://github.com/eHealthAfrica/couchdb-bootstrap - http://ehealthafrica.github.io/couchdb-best-practices/ Best Jan -- > On 2 Dec 2016, at 18:00, Mr. T <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > New here with a dated comment... > > IDEA: It would be nice if there was a place online where developers > could donate time to working on these sorts of projects. I'm thinking > somewhere where the project dev head could publish a task list, and > developers who have signed up to be volunteers could commit code. > > I personally would love to lend my meager coding skills to a project > that actually matters (I spend my days writing enterprise stuff so > that our customers can make more money! It pays the bills but surely > there's more to life). > > Mr. T. > >> I’m sure you all get tired of hearing about this, but I don’t! :) >> >> Here’s another write-up about how CouchDB played a role in helping with one >> of >> the largest humanitarian crises this century: https://medium.com/net-magazine >> /fighting-ebola-with-javascript-26b48da8f84a >> >> This is why I love what we do <3 >> >> Best >> Jan >> -- -- Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/
