European charity / non-profit organization

[apantsiop]

Please, send your ideas and then let's proceed to voting.

Proposed charities for voting with a European focus:

1. Free Software Foundation Europe
2. Transparency International - with a focus on Greece
3. Electronic Frontier Foundation (Europe)
4. RailsGirls (perhaps with the promise they will organize a workshop in Athens?)
5. WWF Europe
6. Greenpeace Europe
7. RVM 2
8. Child's Play it's mostly American

Since there are a couple of options and to make it more fair, let's cast 3 votes each to charities in order of preference. The first vote gets 3 points, the second 2 and the third 1.

For example:

1. Charity 1 (3 points)
2. Charity 2 (2 points)
3. Charity 3 (1 point)

The charity with the most points wins. We should vote until Sunday 24th November 23:59.

Voted:

• [x] fotos
• [x] chief
• [x] pagojo
• [x] apantsiop
• [x] nikosd
• [x] nolamesa
• [ ] damphyr
• [x] vvatikiotis

[nikosd]

I personally don't have the slightest clue...

[pagojo]

Nikos Dimitrakopoulos notifications@github.com wrote:

I personally don't have the slightest clue...

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Same here. Though I don't see the point bothering with as I said before. /pagojo

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[fotos]

We organized (successfully) a European event and we have to give back to the European roots of the conference, on behalf of all the people who attended, one way or another. That is by either funding software or trying to make an impact in the socioeconomic issues in Europe.

The major issues in Europe, as I see them, right now are:

• Environment protection (seas, air and land)
• Unemployment and homeless people
• Privacy issues and digital rights

To this end I compiled a list of charities and organization which help, one way or another, with the above issues (unemployment through education, privacy issues and digital rights through the EFF and the FSF, environment through Greenpeace and WWF). Or we can fund well known Ruby projects like RVM.

If you have a STRONG suggestion to make, for a European charity (or an International one with a European chapter) that I missed, then please do so. Otherwise choose one of the above. Same as with the Greek charities all of them support a good cause, it's hard NOT to align with one of them. Please vote ASAP.

[nikosd]

@fotos thanks for bringing up these ideas. I had totally forgotten EFF and FSF. Now I have more options than votes! :P

1. Free Software Foundation Europe
2. RailsGirls with the condition to do something in Greece[1]
3. RVM 2

[1]: I currently know at least 3-5 "girls" that would kill for a ruby workshop/training. I'm dead serious!

[fotos]

1. Free Software Foundation Europe
2. Electronic Frontier Foundation (Europe)
3. RVM 2

[apantsiop]

1. Free Software Foundation Europe
2. -
3. -

[chief]

1. FSFE
2. RVM2
3. RailsGirls

[nolamesa]

Oh I've missed those votings :) Thanks a lot guys for compiling all this great info.

1. EFF
2. TI
3. FSF

I think that regardless of which one we decide we should ask them (without making it a conditional offer) to involve Greece in one of their future actions.

[fotos]

@nolamesa thanks! :stuck_out_tongue:

I'll see to it but obviously there are no guarantees. I have already written two cover letters for the donation (one in Greek, one in English) and I've already included a (strong) hint about making a future event / happening in Greece (or a contribution that helps Greece somehow).

[pagojo]

1. EFF
2. FSF
3. RVM

[vvatikiotis]

1. EFF
2. RVM

[fotos]

The final count is:

1. FSFE: 15
2. EFF: 11
3. RVM: 7
4. TI: 2
5. RailsGirls: 3

@damphyr abstained.