http://blog.survv.org Law's Place on the New Web Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:15:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, I again met with a member (Matthew Cooperrider) of the Web4Roots meetup group.  Our goal was to pare down what a protocol for exchanging information about volunteering opportunities should look like. First a quick summary of the problem: 1) Organizations need a standard way to syndicate volunteer opportunities they create. 2) Volunteers ... http://blog.survv.org/2008/08/27/a-protocol-for-volunteering-opportunities-part-ii/ A few members of the Web4Roots meetup group and I met up last night to talk about volunteering websites on the web (such as volunteermatch.org, idealist.org,etc).  One problem that jumped out at us was that all of the sites have their own ways of gathering and displaying information about volunteers ... http://blog.survv.org/2008/07/10/a-protocol-for-volunteering-opportunities/ I tried installing Drupal on Mac OS X Leopard the other night and everything worked right out of the box.  There are the two things I had trouble with The PHP on OS X does NOT come with the GD image library installed.  I found a very good tutorial to get ... http://blog.survv.org/2008/06/21/drupal-on-mac-os-x/ Last night I went to a Net Squared meet-up at the Oxfam International office in New York City.   Attending the meeting were representatives from a number non-profits around the world (change.org, TheElders.org etc).  In retrospect, there was one theme that tied all of these organizations together: Drupal.  Joshua Wiese, the ... http://blog.survv.org/2008/06/19/drupal-drupal-drupal/ This weekend, I stumbled upon an interesting document published by the American Bar Association.  The document, titled Standards for Pro Bono Programs, gives a number of criteria that any institution offering pro bono legal care should strive to meet.  A number of points made in the document are relevant to ... http://blog.survv.org/2008/06/08/standards-for-pro-bono-programs/ Because I believe that it is much easier to make software with a specific client in mind, I have been trying to contact legal clinics around New York City. Ideally, I would like to go into a legal clinic, create an application for them so that they can better ... http://blog.survv.org/2008/06/07/finding-a-client-for-survv/ During my phone meeting with Probono.net I was pointed to The Internet Representation Project (IRP), a cool project that doing that some neat things up in Northern Michigan.  They have been successful at doing some of the things that Survv is trying to do: provide a web interface to allow ... http://blog.survv.org/2008/06/03/the-internet-representation-project/ A few weeks ago I went to the Google App Engine Hack-a-thon in New York City.  For those who don’t have the low down, Google App Engine is a framework set up by Google that allows people to host their web applications for free.  Google App Engine excited me for ... http://blog.survv.org/2008/06/01/survv-with-google-app-engine/ I had the phone meeting with Probono.net today.  Very shortly into the meeting I realized is that it is extremely hard to present a website over the phone.  However, I tried my best. The meeting was attended by Mark O’Brien, the director of Probono.net, and Liz Keith, a program manager.  In ... http://blog.survv.org/2008/05/22/10/ I am finally done getting the demo online!  If you go to http://survv.appspot.org right now you can see a demo of Survv.  There are many missing features and the design is very rough around the edges, but the entire work flow is there.  So go ahead and check it out.  ... http://blog.survv.org/2008/05/21/a-demo-of-survv/