"I will offer my web design / development skills to a charity for free but only if 5 people will give me suggestions as to which charity to support."
— Ben Dyer
Deadline to sign up by: 13th September 2005
10 people signed up (5 over target)
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I would like to offer my skills to a charity that needs a website. I already look after a number of sites for registered charities and one more certainly can’t hurt!
Problem is I need suggestions, so if you know of a charity that could do with my help let me know!
Cheers!
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We have drawn up a User Spec, and can send it to you.
The charity is run entirely by volunteers and receives no financial support from any govenment agencis.
I work for a charity and we need to develop our website - please get in touch so that we may talk about how/if you can help!
Thanks
Christine
As I said in my earlier comment we have drawn up a User Spec of our requirements.
Can I have an email address to which to send?
I'd recommend ADANA as well. Any charity that deals with abandoned animals is a good thing!
1) Besides being a design man, you are an idea man. And your ideas are needed even more widely than you could possibly spread your website work. (e.g. if you have an idea and give it to me and I have an idea and give it to you, then we are not depleted but instead each have two ideas.)
2) Because of your early participation in PledgeBank, it is evident that the kind of ideas you have are likely to be the kind that will be useful to the folks working on forming a UK EFF. See http://www.corante.com/strange/archives/...
Therefore as the fifth person to give you a suggestion, I suggest that you at least be in contact w/Suw Charman (blog page referred above), and volunteer to her your interest helping to form a UK EFF. Then you can also donate webdesign time if you wish but at least you will have associated with a nascent organization that has great potential to do good.
Best,
H
P.S. Will you be announcing your action decision in this space?
I just wanted to say that I think that this is a really good idea and I'm a designer who'd be happy to do the same. I didn't want to set up a seperate pledge as you were the first! If you get more suggestions than you can cope with though then feel free to pass them my way and I'll see what I can do.
Good luck with the pledge!
All the best,
John.
I also think this is a good idea, and if you do have any suggestions that you don't have time to cope with, feel free to send them on to me.
Thanks
David
Terry
Sorry I haven’t been in touch recently, the take up of this pledge is really rather staggering! For every one person that has signed up I am getting another 3 or 4 proposals sent to me! When I started this pledge I had no idea there would be such take up.
It’s also very interesting as there are a number of likeminded developers who have expressed an interest in getting involved. This has got me thinking, my initial idea was to take up a single ‘good cause’ but now I am thinking about setting up a not for profit web agency. This group would be a central place for developers and charities to get together and help each other out.
What do you think, does it sound like a good idea? Would John and Terry be interested in getting involved?
Get in touch!
Quote: Margaret Mead, Anthropologist
Poetry, wishful thinking, and a yearning to improve mans lot by word meditiation is a waste of time, better you dig, plant, plough, grow, move, shove, push and transport something, this applies to all- especially the poor and its creed number 1 for the ambitious.
On one hand Bob you say this worthless little poem is industry itself and on the other you say it is a waste of time.
Bob, Everything does not have to be industry, product and selling to create positive changes!! How do you think the suggested "committed citizens" change the world, but by "doing" through thought & action....yes, digging, ploughing, growing, moving and writing little poems, if not influencing government, recycling used items, picking up a scrap of trash in the street, doing a good turn for a neighbor. Something as simple as smiling at someone as you pass on the street can create major changes in someones life, attitude and the actions they take....Certainly positive change does not happen by shutting up, giving up or passively standing by when people like YOU tell them what they are doing is too little, not important or not good enough.
YOU BOB appear narrow minded and "a waste" if you think for a minute that the bull you spew is any more important than the previous poem, though even your negative little contributions add to the world in some way and could create positive changes in the long run.