Tech For Good With Andrew Means and Sean Marcia

Tech For Good With Andrew Means and Sean Marcia

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Guests

• Andrew Means: Data Analysts 4 Social Good, The Good Tech Fest, Big Elephant Studios.
• Sean Marcia: Ruby For Good, Code For Good.

Summary

Our guests this week are Andrew Means of Data Analysts for Social Good and Sean Marcia of Ruby for Good. Both of them run organizations that are involved with using technology to helping non-profits that could use even some simple software or data assistance. We’ll talk about what kinds of work their organizations do, how non-profits differ from for-profit work, how they try to keep projects running over time, and how you can get involved working with technology for good.

Notes

02:01 - The Shared Mission of Tech For Good Events

• Uptake.org

04:04 - The History and The Why

06:30 - Working with Nonprofits and Vetting Projects

• National Diaper Bank Network
• 412 Food Rescue
• BrightHive
• Salesforce

13:20 - Managing and Maintaining Projects

16:26 - Understanding Nonprofit Problems and Issues

18:54 - For Profit vs Nonprofit

• The Overhead Ratio
• Tech Literacy

25:12 - Getting Involved / Recruiting Technologists

• DataKind

26:51 - Using Open Source

• Ruby for Good on GitHub

27:34 - Growing and Maturing the Tech For Good Space