Charity Software development shops?

[William Park]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:11:53PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> Does anyone on the list know of a charity software
> development shop that will do some teaching in the
> G.T.A.?
> 
> One of the volunteers down at reSource ask me this
> question, and I didn't have an answer for her.
> ReSource's thing is taking old computers refurbishing
> them and then getting them out into the community, so
> lots of hands on hardware handling, but not much in
> the way of software work (OS installs don't count). In
> other words reSource has a woman who is currently on
> medical leave, wants to signifigantly improve her
> software development skill set (her current
> programming skills I gather are very modest) and she
> is looking to help a charity group.
> 
> So, a related question, if there is no current charity
> software development shops, does anyone know of a
> large charity that does signifigant in-house software
> development that I could point this lady to?

St. Christopher House (www.stchrishouse.org) have some IT programs.  Not
sure what they're doing now.

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William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
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