Software developer will work for non-profit for free.

1 points by alnayyir 16y ago ↗ HN

The catch is optimally it'd be either a technologically difficult or socially significant project. I was inspired by an idea that was discussed on a different website about setting up a texting service for finding lost relatives.

I discussed viability/costs with the OP behind the idea, and while I don't think he'll go anywhere with it (he's tied up in SK), it gave me an itch to work on something difficult/interesting.

I have a full-time job as a Django developer in Manhattan, and I'm plenty pleased with that, but I'd like a side project. I'm a generalist by all meanings of the word and am open to hearing about anything that meets either/both of the above criteria.

So, anybody part of a non-profit that could use a programmer?

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cperciva 16y ago ↗

FreeBSD can always use more developers: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/

alnayyir 16y ago ↗

Although C was my first programming language, I don't know that I'd be qualified to contribute code to the project. My current C tinkering usually involves trivial event loop implementations and messing around with iterating over function pointers. I'll register your idea in my queue though. I hang out with a FreeBSD dev/maintainer so it's something I could look into.

I was hoping for a non-profit that affected people other than programmers. My social circle is incestuous.

Already working with a FreeBSD dev on yp. Nothing serious though.