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

[Robby Dermody]

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 

----- Original Message -----

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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