3. Agenda
• Member Introductions
• RailsforCharity(RFC) Mission
• RFC Motive
• Open source projects
• Areas where we can contribute
• Benefits for us?
• How will we do it?
• Questions?
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. We have built hundreds of open source projects
and tools
12. We have built hundreds of open source projects
and tools
Now its for us to build & maintain
complete end to end web based
open source applications.
13. Areas where we can contribute
• Most of Silicon Valley is focused on building products for the top 1% of the world's
population.
Do you think we can
sell an apple iPod
or even coca-cola to
them ?
• 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.
Source: http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/What-are-some-things-Id-be-shocked-to-learn-about-the-outside-
world
14. continued...
• 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.
15. 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.
16. continued...
• 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?
17. 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)
18. continued...
• 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...
19. Tools & Services
• Github - For Source Control & Issue Tracking
• Pivotal Tracker - For Project Management
• Travis CI - For Continuous Integration
• Heroku - For Deployments
20. 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.
Many people work tirelessly to bring about a change they want, but these efforts are localized and individualistic (person or company) with little collaboration and sharing of knowledge & resources.\n\n
Many people work tirelessly to bring about a change they want, but these efforts are localized and individualistic (person or company) with little collaboration and sharing of knowledge & resources.\n\n
Many people work tirelessly to bring about a change they want, but these efforts are localized and individualistic (person or company) with little collaboration and sharing of knowledge & resources.\n\n
Many people work tirelessly to bring about a change they want, but these efforts are localized and individualistic (person or company) with little collaboration and sharing of knowledge & resources.\n\n
