[TriZPUG] Non-profit opportunity: Support using Food Stamps at NC Farmer’s Markets

[Michael Hrivnak]

This sounds like a great opportunity to make it an open source
project.  Lots of us would likely be happy to jump on github and knock
out a new feature or fix a couple of bugs, even if we couldn't commit
to the responsibility of owning the project.  I could even imagine an
organized weekend sprint happening once in a while.

Michael

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Robby Dermody <robbyd at u20.org> wrote:
> Thanks Chris,
>
> I've posted this opportunity on this list as well as a few others and have a
> number of people interested.
>
> Very appreciative of the generosity of the community for a worthwhile cause
> like this!
>
> Robby
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Chris Calloway" <cbc at unc.edu>
> To: trizpug at python.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:24:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriZPUG] Non-profit opportunity: Support using Food Stamps at
> NC Farmer’s Markets
>
>
> Although I can't take this opportunity, I'd like to endorse it. The
> ability to accept SNAP at farmer's markets has some far reaching effects
> in nutritional health and transportation energy savings. I hope somebody
> in our group answers this call.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc
> office: 3313 Venable Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
> mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
>
> On 2/20/2012 8:25 PM, Robby Dermody wrote:
>> I have a great 5-10 hours/month opportunity with someone with decent
>> software development skills. I work with a company called Leaflight, who
>> handles the acceptance of SNAP (Food Stamps) and Credit Cards at a large
>> percentage of the farmers’ markets in the state. It’s a good
>> organization that’s been around for about 10 years now and is run my
>> great people that truly care about helping people eat well and eat
>> local, no matter what their socioeconomic background.
>>
>> This past year I built a web frontend/portal system for them (Django,
>> MySQL, etc) that allows Farm Market managers to submit sales (token
>> receipts) online, instead of having to fill out a paper form. This
>> system works very well, and they’d like to expand on it, as well as
>> taking on additional opportunities, such as mobile client development
>> and development of a client on a cutting edge POS (point of sale)
>> platform. I’ve been responsible for helping them out on the technology
>> side for the past year, but unfortunately, I can’t commit the time I’d
>> like to the project anymore as my growing business is consuming pretty
>> much all of it.
>>
>> This is a great opportunity for anyone would like to put their skills to
>> a very worthwhile use, as well as picking up new and interesting
>> technology along the way. As I said before, the time commitment is
>> rather minimal (5-10 hours per month I’d estimate). It is a volunteer
>> position, and the ideal candidate would have a few years of development
>> under his or her belt, along with being a self-learner/self-starter.
>> Python/Django experience is welcome, but not required (you'd be free to
>> use any technology you want for anything else but this one existing
>> project).
>>
>> If you’re interested, email me personally at robbyd at paramise.com
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Robby
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