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Combining city data with a list of specific needs from food pantries will allow citizens to most effectively make useful and needed donations assisted by the Pantry Pick-Up App.
http://www.pantrypickup.org
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When users check-in to a grocery store, if there is a Pantry within walking distance, send a notification to the user about which food items the nearby pantry needs #37

Open fabacab opened 11 years ago

fabacab commented 11 years ago

I understand this is a much-further-down-the-road idea, but I figured the idea would do more good here than it will do in my head. So, here's a thought:

An interface to Foursquare, Facebook, and other check-in services could be developed such that when a user of those services, who has installed the Pantry Pickup app as part of the other webservice, checks in to a grocery store, supermarket, or other food-buying venue, they would be alerted to the food needs of pantries within some (walking?) distance to their check-in location.

carpeliam commented 11 years ago

:+1:

kochashton commented 11 years ago

Meitar -

What a great idea!! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Ruth

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Meitar Moscovitz <notifications@github.com

wrote:

I understand this is a much-further-down-the-road idea, but I figured the idea would do more good here than it will do in my head. So, here's a thought:

An interface to Foursquarehttps://developer.foursquare.com/overview/apps, Facebook, and other check-in services could be developed such that when a user of those services, who has installed the Pantry Pickup app as part of the other webservice, checks in to a grocery store, supermarket, or other food-buying venue, they would be alerted to the food needs of pantries within some (walking?) distance to their check-in location.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/codeforboston/pantry_pickup/issues/37 .

WheresHJ commented 11 years ago

Yah, cool. We've been considering FB / Twitter / G+ / etc social integration since the beginning as a way to spread the app virally by enabling sharing of donation actions (and also possibly to enable "favoriting" of pantries you want to contribute to on a regular basis), but this is another really cool use of location services.

Harlan Weber Designer | Researcher http://www.hjweber.net

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:52 AM, kochashton notifications@github.comwrote:

Meitar -

What a great idea!! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Ruth

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Meitar Moscovitz < notifications@github.com

wrote:

I understand this is a much-further-down-the-road idea, but I figured the idea would do more good here than it will do in my head. So, here's a thought:

An interface to Foursquare< https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/apps>, Facebook, and other check-in services could be developed such that when a user of those services, who has installed the Pantry Pickup app as part of the other webservice, checks in to a grocery store, supermarket, or other food-buying venue, they would be alerted to the food needs of pantries within some (walking?) distance to their check-in location.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub< https://github.com/codeforboston/pantry_pickup/issues/37> .

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/codeforboston/pantry_pickup/issues/37#issuecomment-23566421 .