{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals/issues/22","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals/issues/22/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals/issues/22/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals/issues/22/events","html_url":"https://github.com/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals/issues/22","id":154652337,"number":22,"title":"Code not Bombs - Food donations made easy","user":{"login":"madrusec","id":1915998,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1915998?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/madrusec","html_url":"https://github.com/madrusec","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/madrusec/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/madrusec/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/madrusec/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/madrusec/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/madrusec/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/madrusec/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/madrusec/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/madrusec/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/madrusec/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals/labels/concept","name":"concept","color":"c5def5"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals/labels/Food/Hunger","name":"Food/Hunger","color":"d93f0b"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":12,"created_at":"2016-05-13T07:44:01Z","updated_at":"2016-05-18T17:39:19Z","closed_at":null,"body":"## Short description of the idea (140 character tweet):\r\n\r\nApp that connects those who can donate food to those in need with volunteers and orgs that will. Reduce food waste by donating in a safe way.\r\n\r\n## What is your project concept or idea? What challenge or opportunity will it solve?\r\n\r\nApp that connects those who can donate food to those in need with volunteers and orgs that will. Reduce food waste by donating in safe way.\r\n\r\n## Who will benefit from your project? Describe the humans at the center of the problem - who are they? \r\n### How would they benefit? Can you tell their story?\r\n### Do you have photos of them? Or quotes?\r\n\r\nAccording to Feeding America, 20 – 45% of the food we grow and process in the United States goes to waste. But we shouldn’t need formal statics to know this simple fact: we waste a too much food. We often tend to buy more food than we can consume before it goes bad. Grocery stores get rid of their food when “buy before” dates start approaching. Have you ever entered a grocery store late a night when employees start piling good looking food in a shopping cart and getting are ready for the dumpster (take a peak inside one if you’ll see what I mean)? Bakeries get rid of great looking bread every night, and food service business that want to claim certain high levels of freshness in their food throw away vegetables with minor imperfections. Yet, in 2014 14.8% of Americans were food insecure.  With so many people hungry, why are we still wasting so much food? I think there is one very likely cause for this: it is too easy to throw food away – certainly much easier than it is to find people and/or groups and organization to donate it to. Moreover, then there are the questions: “who should you donate you excess food to anyway? And how?”\r\n\r\nThe idea is to make it (at least) almost as easy to donate food to those in need, or groups and organizations that help those in need, as it is to throw it away. You login to an application through your phone and or computer, see a list of companies that are looking for donations, their ratings, and then schedule a time for them to pick up the food. Follow up with them and see how they are making use of your donation and give them a rating. Volunteering organizations can start establishing relationships with grocery stores, restaurants, etc. via the app.\r\n\r\n## Issue area(s) relevant to your project idea:\r\n\r\n- Economic Opportunity & Development\r\n- Environment & Sustainability\r\n- Food/Hunger\r\n- Other\r\n\r\n## What is the current state of your project idea?\r\n\r\n- I have an idea or **concept** of a solution, but have not yet prototyped or tested it\r\n\r\n## Tell us more about the current state of your project idea.\r\n### Do you have any links to news articles, text, mockups, code, or data?\r\n\r\nI do not have any mock ups but would love to get together with people passionate about technology and about using technology to help others help evolve this concept. I have experience doing full stack development and can work with JS, Angular, Python, Django, Swift and C#. Technology is fun, but what you can do with it is much more important!\r\n\r\n\r\n## Tell us about yourself. \r\n### What is your background? Why is this challenge important to you? \r\n### Are you representing a group in submitting this project idea? \r\n\r\nTwo of my biggest passions are 1) technology and 2) using technology to help others. I used to actively help groups like Food not Bombs prepare and feed the homeless in Tampa, Florida and I am currently able to help an organization deliver food to people in need. I feel extremely lucky of having been able to grow around computers, especially coming from a third world country like Venezuela. I feel strongly that if you were lucky enough to get an education of any kind that allowed you to quickly learn how to code (a magical skill!), you should try to give back to your community by making effective use of whatever skills you have. "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals/issues/comments/220102704","html_url":"https://github.com/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals/issues/22#issuecomment-220102704","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals/issues/22","id":220102704,"user":{"login":"lisabarden","id":15972312,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15972312?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/lisabarden","html_url":"https://github.com/lisabarden","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lisabarden/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lisabarden/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lisabarden/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lisabarden/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lisabarden/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lisabarden/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lisabarden/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lisabarden/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lisabarden/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-05-18T17:39:19Z","updated_at":"2016-05-18T17:39:19Z","body":"Lisa Barden - lisa@vizias.com\n\n> On May 18, 2016, at 12:34 PM, Sarah Sharif <notifications@github.com> wrote:\n> \n> ACTION NEEDED\n> \n> Hello Project Champion,\n> \n> Please provide the following:\n> Full Name + Email Address \n> You can comment here or send to ssharif1@stedwards.edu <mailto:ssharif1@stedwards.edu>\n> We are going to be sending out a note + newsletter to our 345 (as of May 18) attendees sharing our submitted projects before the event and your hackers will want to know who you are. Additionally, we have PC-specific communication that we want to make sure that you are included on.\n> \n> Thanks,\n> ATX H4C Staff\n> \n> —\n> You are receiving this because you commented.\n> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub <https://github.com/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals/issues/22#issuecomment-220101480>\n\n"}}