Coding for Charity

I recently attended the 360 Flex conference in San Jose http://www.360flex.com.

The conference was great- there were topics for everything from beginners to Flex gurus.  I am happy to say that I learned an incredible amount about Flex and programming in general.  I met some great people too.

While at the conference I got to witness something truly remarkable.  There was a charity Flex Code Jam.  Several developers came together during the off-hours of the conference to donate their talents to a local Bay Area non profit.  The team came together to help create a web application using Flex for a local foodbank.

The foodbank provides food to a large number of people in the Bay Area, and they needed a way to aid hungry families in finding soup kitchen locations.

This is where the code jam people came in.  They created a really great Flex app that uses the Yahoo! maps API to locate, and provide information on where and how to get food.

It was really amazing to see how much technology helped this organization.

I am inspired by this act of kindness, and I would like to do something similar either as part of a team, or by myself.

So I am volunteering to donate my time to code for a charitable organization that needs a technology solution to help people.

My criteria are pretty simple:

The challenge has to be something that can be solved with technology, e.g. create a mapping applicaiton, or user interface to help people in need.

It can be anywhere, I live in the west, but I’m willing to help anyone with a worthy cause

If you are interested, please contact me through this site or email lance@binarygiant.com

Thanks,