(66th) Free Lunch Foundation

Wouldn't it be great to beat the allfamous 'there's no free lunch' -tradition? Meaning that it would be neat to have a foundation that could actually give free lunches, to people who really are in need, perhaps. Anyhow the main point for getting the lunch would then be also that you could not earn it. In any matter. And that's what could make the whole thing tricky enough to accomplish and as a nice way, a challenge to set up.

Funding of the foundation would be nice to establish, too. How to collect money for such a purpose, especially in these economically troubled days? Maybe it would be good to have the whole foundation serving free food to homeless, poor or just plainly lazy people and at the same time collecting the funds and/or food for such a purpose. And once a week someone of the fed people would then be selected to get the real free meal of the week. A non-profit -foundation with no limits of service, so to say.

I kind of like the idea, since it is mine, of course and in the other hand, there's not much sense in it (It's mine, Q.E.D).

And, of course, it's been done already http://www.implu.com/nonprofit/61482552, at least in some way. And over here, too, http://freelunchproject.blogspot.com/. It's nice to know that I'm not alone. Are you?

(58th) Social connectivity

Just had a sneak peak on Soocial, a hassle-free ( so they keep telling me) contact management system, which synchronises my contacts between different applications and devices. Finally, something at least distantly useful.

Anyhow, I've got something more on my mind. Or have had this for few months. What if you would have only one application to communicate with other people who have a Facebook, twitter, Gmail, MSN Live messenger,  AOL Instant Messenger, Mobile phone and an e-mail account. An application that would bind this all together and all you would have to do is maintain your contact list and send messages, which then would be transferred to your friend/relative/the-person-you-want-to-contact-with in appropriate format regarding on the recipients current online-status. And even the contact information maintaining would be at least semi-automatic, so you would not have to bother too much about that one, either.

What I mean here is the fact that it would be great to have just one application and just one list of contacts for communicating. And the application could then use all the available means of communication (even the snail-mail, huh?) when delivering the message to the recipient. I see that nowadays this sort of application could be able to develop and release in a uite a short time. I would not consider myself as a frontline developer, I'm a test professional (re-learning my C++ anyhow), but this idea is worth of trying. To be honest, I have some sort of design, requirements list and plan done for this sort of application and I have a clear vision on how it should work, on functionality level, so if you're interested on collaborating in this sort of open source solution either with development or GUI -implementation -skills, I'd be more than happy to start working on this sort of subject. So, don't hesitate to contact :D

And last, but not least, the application should be able to be easily ported on any operating system, including the mobile ones. And really intuitive and surprisingly easy to use.