Changing the World
Penguin February 15th, 2007
Last night, Ninja and I got a delightful IM from one of our good and long time friends, JsC (Jesse; a quick note about his name before we get to the meat of the post).
In the early days of the intarweb, while AOL was still king, we had a not so little thing called IRC (Internet Relay Chat). JsC introduced it to me one weekend he was over, and I was hooked. Having a short name myself, I liked the idea of trying to shorten names into three letters that, somehow, would phonetically sound like the original. Hence, Jays-See, JsC. In retrospect, it should probably be jSC, juh-Ess-See. But whatever.
Anyway, JsC IMs us last night with an idea to change the world. I won’t get into the details of the project, but it’s basically Books for Chinese Tots. It’s a really great idea and I was onboard the moment he shared it with me. In my usual fashion, I started thinking of possible hurdles he would have to overcome in order to make this thing work.
It also got me to thinking of my own little project that I’ve been kicking around in my head.
My goal, or plan, is to enter full-time missions when I’m 30. It’s sort of an artificial deadline I set for myself to prepare mentally and spiritually before I enter the field. Part of it is also where in the field that would be.
My current idea, is to start a software NPO (non-profit organization) that develops open source applications for third world small and micro businesses. Obviously, there are already a few applications on the market, but there are others that need to be built. The main thing the NPO would do is provide training and installation.
The biggest problem is finances. How does the NPO generate capital to provide all this free training/support? How do we pay developers to produce good software?
So, those are just two examples of plans to change the world. How about you, how would you change the world?
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