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Hi LRUGers,<br>
<br>
Just wanted to say thanks again for passing on our
non-profit/charity form. Several charities came and pitched IT
projects in person at a joint MakersAcademy/AgileVentures Charity
Jamboree. Hastily recorded video of that event at the link below.
I was impressed with the well articulated projects from each of the
organisations that attended:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9slrwCFajgU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9slrwCFajgU</a><br>
<br>
Two charities got selected by teams of Makers students and those
students have been working closely with those charities over the
last two weeks as part of their Makers Academy final projects. The
results of their work will be presented at the Makers Academy
graduation this Friday if anyone is interested:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/makers-academy-open-day-and-graduation-tickets-15175598624">http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/makers-academy-open-day-and-graduation-tickets-15175598624</a><br>
<br>
We're planning to hold a similar charity jamboree every 6 weeks so
that Makers students continue to get experience working with real
customers as part of their bootcamp experience.<br>
<br>
The next one will be on Wednesday Feb 18th, and any charity group
interested in signing up can use the same form as before:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bit.ly/AgileVenturesNonProfitSignup" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/AgileVenturesNonProfitSignup</a><br>
<br>
Agile Venturers from around the world continue to collaborate via
remote pair programming on a number of charity projects and if
you're interested in contributing please sign up at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://agileventures.org">http://agileventures.org</a><br>
<br>
Also, if anyone can tell me which charity/non-profit email lists my
earlier email got forwarded to I can post directly there when
searching for charities in need of IT solutions rather than
bothering LRUG members in future.<br>
<br>
Many thanks in advance<br>
CHEERS> SAM<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 31 October 2014 08:43, Sam Joseph <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:tansaku@gmail.com" target="_blank">tansaku@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Just a
quick follow up on this to say thanks to all the LRUG
members who<br>
forwarded this on to non-profits and charities. We've had a
big surge<br>
in requests as a result, so much so that we've had to put up
a form to<br>
handle all the incoming requests:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bit.ly/AgileVenturesNonProfitSignup"
target="_blank">http://bit.ly/AgileVenturesNonProfitSignup</a><br>
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If there are any other charities and non-profits interested
in working<br>
with us, please do direct them to that form and we'll do our
best to<br>
respond to them ASAP.<br>
<br>
And of course do our best to see if we can't use Ruby as
part of the<br>
solution that helps them overcome their IT challenge :-)<br>
<br>
Many thanks again<br>
Best regards<br>
Sam Joseph<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
On 21/10/2014 14:27, Sam Joseph wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> Is anyone working with a non-profit or charity group
that is interested<br>
> in having a web app built for them?<br>
><br>
> Our Agile Ventures group has been coordinating
volunteer learning coders<br>
> to work for free on non-profit and charity projects
for the last 18<br>
> months. One of the main things that was built during
this period was a<br>
> rails project called LocalSupport, an open source
directory of<br>
> non-profit orgs. It's currently being used to run
Harrow Community Network:<br>
><br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.harrowcn.org.uk" target="_blank">http://www.harrowcn.org.uk</a><br>
><br>
> If there's anyone from the non-profit or charity
sector who needs<br>
> anything built please don't hesitate to put them in
touch with me, Sam<br>
> Joseph - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:sam@agileventures.org">sam@agileventures.org</a><br>
><br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.agileventures.org" target="_blank">http://www.agileventures.org</a><br>
><br>
> CHEERS> SAM<br>
><br>
<br>
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Technical blog: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linklens.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://linklens.blogspot.com</a><br>
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