[3:49 PM, 5/28/2021] Samuel WH Tan: Morning Ps Andy, a colleague of mine that is based in US is teaching a class this fall at Connecticut College (New London CT) that is focused on Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software projects (HFOSS) or more grandly, Software for Humanity.
The class focuses on helping non-profits that can benefit from IT services provided for free by students. This project brings together students eager to solve real-world problems with social service agencies. One of the goals driving this project is to draw a more diverse group of students to computer science — who might find the prospect of helping people in need around the globe more appealing than learning programming for its own sake.
Will the foundation be interested? (there is no costs to the non-profit, all work is free). Criteria: open globally, NGO that has a need that can be fulfilled with some form of IT project, identifies someone who can spend some time defining the requirements of the foundation with the students, support the project with feedbacks/updates, timeline (sept-dec)
[3:49 PM, 5/28/2021] Samuel WH Tan: This just came in from Cindy Chew, Kavin’s wife.
[3:49 PM, 5/28/2021] Samuel WH Tan: Whatever our IT needs in terms of software they are able to make for us. For FREE!
[3:49 PM, 5/28/2021] Samuel WH Tan: I’m connecting with them.
[3:50 PM, 5/28/2021] Samuel WH Tan: From Ps Andy. I was thinking of our receipt printing system, esp. if they insist for address to be printed on receipts.
[3:52 PM, 5/28/2021] Ndee Lo: I think maybe we can go for the whole system that can handle from head to tail of Foundation? from preschool, contacts, inventory, distribution, database...etc...we can try to see if that would something they can do for us.
not sure of details yet. once i know more then see what they can help us in.