Hack-a-thon 1
Poverty's Demise .Org
Date: October 25th
Location: 266 Washington Ave, Apt A1, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Start: 11 AM
Finish: 6 PM
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: : #povertysdemise
For more info contact developer@povertysdemise.org
I am happy to announce PDO's first hackathon. In this session we will tackle some of the core issues related to the site (identifying the custom modules to be built, converting some modules to needs, and so forth).
Snacks will be served and towards the end..(for obvious reasons ;-) the elixir of life, beer, will be served.
Project Concept:
Poverty’s Demise .Org (PDO) can be thought of as a technological road map for self-sustainable child poverty alleviation that is a combination of Facebook, PayPal, and eBay, except PDO is nonprofit, open-source, and pacifist. Donors and poor children receive web-based user profiles (like Facebook). Using a Donor Portal connected to support accounts, which hold cash donations (like PayPal), donors can purchase specific social welfare related items from a simple shopping cart interface (like eBay). The Social Welfare Shopping Cart represents the sum total of all of a child’s needs for healthy development (food, clothing, shelter, health-care, education, etc.). In the future, if every child born into poverty has a full social welfare shopping cart from PDO tax deductible donations, poverty will end.
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