1. building a charity web
app in 24 hours
Mike Bailey

2. Sat 7 Feb 2009
Melbourne hottest ever day

3. Sat 7 Feb 2009

4. Sat 7 Feb 2009

5. Sat 7 Feb 2009

6. Tue 10 Feb 2009

7. Sat 14 Feb 2009
The phone call
fun4paws had >10,000 emails in their inbox

8. Requirements
• respond to >10,000 emails
• collect info from volunteers
• make volunteer info searchable

9. Mon 16 Feb 2009
Extract list of unique senders from mailboxes:
grep --no-filename --max-count=1 '^From: ' * |
sort | uniq > mail_list.txt
... 4619 unique addresses

10. Mon 16 Feb 2009

11. Mon 16 Feb 2009

12. Thu 19 Feb 2009

13. Fri 20 Feb 2009

14. Fri 20 Feb 2009

15. Services required are cheap and quick to provision...
Domain name $10 15 min
Virtual Private Server $20 5 min
Mailout $50 60 min
Total $80 75 min

16. Software required was all free and open source...
Linux operating system
Ruby programming language
Ruby on Rails web framework
Software library for easier map-based apps

17. Outcomes

18. Outcomes
30 dogs in foster care
7 dogs adopted
... less than anticipated but still a good result

19. Outcomes
further mailout to volunteers resulted in donations of:
- kennels
- dog beds
- dog coats
- other items
which have been distributed to people in need.

20. Thanks to Pete Yandell pete@notahat.com for help
Source lives at git://github.com/notahat/fun4paws.git