David Bolton Strikes Again

Last month, I gave a talk at the Ruby on Rails Oceania (RORO) Sydney meeting about a charity that a good friend of mine is involved in, Crossroads.  They’re based in Hong Kong, and began moving their systems to Rails earlier this year.

So I’ve acted as a facilitator in trying to get a few local Rails developers together to do some charitable work for Crossroads.  Last night we had our first meeting, and all systems are GO!  We’ve decided provisionally to meet perhaps one day a month to work on some Crossroads code.  As Matt from Crossroads says, the help we can give is very highly leveraged in that every hour we volunteer is actually worth many times that, since we will be helping create more efficient systems for delivering tens of thousands of tonnes of charitable goods around the world each year.

This is the beginning, and I hope to report back in the future with news of some very good and useful work done for our friends in Hong Kong.