Tord - 2015-05-18

daily_metta_app_logo_experimental

Hi!

The Metta Center for Nonviolence is looking for a programmer who want to be a part of a free open source software app project

What the app does

The app will be called the Daily Metta App, it will present reflections on wisdom teachings and is based on the existing Daily Metta articles:

Daily Metta is a daily reflection on the strategic and spiritual insights of Mahatma Gandhi (and in the future other wisdom teachers) in thought, word and deed. As Gandhi called his life an “experiment in truth,” we include an experiment in nonviolence to accompany each Daily Metta

You can find an archive of all Daily Mettas here: http://mettacenter.org/daily-metta/

Project status

We are currently in the early phases of the project, working on the design and tech architecture. For more information about the project status please see our Github wiki main page: https://github.com/MettaCenter/DailyMettaApp/wiki

Websites

The organization behind the app is the Metta Center for Nonviolence: http://mettacenter.org/

All Daily Mettas can be found here: http://mettacenter.org/daily-metta/

The Metta Center also has a bi-weekly radio show Peace Paradigm Radio: http://mettacenter.org/writings-blogs/peace-paradigm-radio/

And our github page for the Daily Metta app is here: https://github.com/MettaCenter/DailyMettaApp/

Platform and programming languages

Right now we are working with Android (Java) but we are hoping to create an iOS version in the future and we lack people with this background so if you like to help out with this you are very welcome

Some of the people already involved

Me (Tord)

I am a tester and programmer, with a small amount of experience of web development from the Empathy App project and some experience of Android from the KindMind and Remember projects. My educational background is in computer science/engineering. I also have some background in the peace movement and have a website here: http://ihavearrived.org/

Stephanie

Stephanie is the executive director for the Metta Center for Nonviolence and is the author of the Daily Metta articles. You can find more articles at the Metta Center website: http://mettacenter.org/author/stephanie/

People we are looking for

Now we are looking for a programmer and a designer

Programmer

The person we are looking for
* is willing to spend ten hours or more per week
* is willing to meet once each week over video/audio call for one hour
* has an interest in the peace movement

In addition to the above, the programmer has experience with or interest to learn about Android development. (A bonus is experience with or interest to help us to port to iOS in the future)

Designer

Please see details here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/artists/thread/17a72408/

Contact information for follow up

tord(dot)dellsen(at)gmail(dot)com or info(at)mettacenter(dot)org

Please include a line about what draws you to this project, which of the above technologies/designs you have worked with, and how much time you think you are going to be able to spend on the project each week

Kind Regards,
Tord

 

Last edit: Tord 2015-06-16