Rails for CharitySan Francisco / Bay Area

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AgendaMember Introductions

RailsforCharity(RFC) Mission

RFC Motive

Open source projects

Areas where we can contribute

Benefits for us?

How will we do it?

Questions?

Member Introductions

RailsforCharity(RFC) Mission

“To build open source web based applications which help in improving the

society.”

RFC Motive• We want to fix the social problems that surround us

through the use of our skills (Technology) and give something back to the society.

• We want to incubate, foster, develop, mentor and support web based software projects which could potentially have a social impact.

• Provide a platform for people to share/pitch their social impacting ideas, get help and be helped for achieving their goals.

• We want to make Silicon Valley the starting point for such a unique open source initiative.

Now its for us to build & maintain complete end to end

web based open source applications.

Now its for us to build & maintain complete end to end

web based open source applications.

We have built hundreds of open We have built hundreds of open source projects and toolssource projects and tools

Most of Silicon Valley is focused on building products for the top 1% of the world's population.

Most of the world is not 16-29 year old males. There's a whole range of perspectives that go underrepresented in Silicon Valley. There are a lot of women out there. Older folks. Also, it might be hard to imagine, but there are a lot of kids not growing up on video games.

Areas where we can contribute

Do you think we can sell an apple iPod or even coca-cola to them ?

Source: http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/What-are-some-things-Id-be-shocked-to-learn-about-the-outside-world

Most of the world needs solutions to problems we rarely talk about, in areas like health care, agricultural production, sustainable construction, citizen activism and empowerment, childhood education, affordable transportation, community solidarity and efficacy, etc.

In short, there are lots of simple ideas that we can implement and make a difference.

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Benefits for us?

Self satisfaction. You know that you are giving back to the society.

Open source projects shine well on your resume. A contributor of a large open source project is more impressive than an individual contributor in a corporate one.

Collaborate and learn.

Work on latest technologies apart from your job.

Meet people from various backgrounds. Work on projects which have a direct impact.

Work on challenging problems and whacky ideas.

If not us, who will?

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How will we do it?

Anyone who has an idea would pitch.

Members will vote on each idea and form teams to work on those ideas.

The code will be open sourced.

Friendly competition among the teams.

Take Baby steps.

Build a working version 0.1 in 2 weeks

Deploy on heroku (heroku.com)

Meet again, get feedback & assimilate new members into the picture

Iterate continuously & get Beta out in 2 months.

Spread the word.

Monitor user engagement.

Reshuffle teams...

Keep iterating...

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Tools & Services

Github - For Source Control & Issue Tracking

Pivotal Tracker - For Project Management

Travis CI - For Continuous Integration

Heroku - For Deployments

Who do we need?

Everyone!

Artists, Businessmen, Designers, Developers, Editors, Evangelists, Marketing, Sales, Lawyers, Writers, QA, etc...

In short, anyone who is passionate about charities and open source and wants to contribute.

Questions / Comments / Ideas

For the next meetup...

Pitch your idea.

Vote.

Divide and conquer.

Thank You! Thank You!