[PLUG] Proposal: grocery delivery hub software project

VY vyau5678 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 22:13:02 UTC 2020


You might want to checkout this project:

https://github.com/aiformankind

They have a project on Covid-19.  And I think they have a SLACK channel


On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 1:59 PM Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> This message is partly "plug-talk" but mostly "plug", because
> the core of it is assembling bits of open source software for
> planning, delivery, and fulfillment.  What open source
> software components are usable, and who can assemble a team
> and deliver applications and procedures RIGHT NOW ONLY?
>
> The problems:
>
> 1) grocery stores are swamped with disease-spreading
> customers stripping the shelves.
>
> 2) sit-down restaurants are shuttered and staffs are
> laid off.
>
> The opportunity:
>
> Can we use software and the internet to convert those
> idle restaurants (with their kitchens, refrigerators,
> tables, parking lots, and food-permit-trained staffs)
> into expansion hubs for home delivery of groceries
> and sundries to homebound customers?  Real Soon Now?
>
> Can we use software to quickly train idled taxi drivers
> as additional food-permitted delivery staff?
>
> VERY QUICKLY, by repurposing and combining disparate
> open source software components?
>
> -------
>
> I'd love to get those people back to work, safely,
> and vastly expand our ability to deliver groceries and
> other items to responsible self-isolated people.
>
> I'm *NOT* mentioning this here to begin a lot of plug-talk
> chatter, but to engage the talents and entrepreneurial
> energies of capable, imaginative, available, and speedy
> programmers to delete the defects from my brainfart and
> start hacking together prototypes NOW.
>
> Untalented folks like me and most others can chatter
> about it on plug-talk.  I don't expect the most
> capable and hard-working programmers have time to chat,
> but they might have time to learn Linux specifics here.
>
> So, the plug list for software implementation (what and
> how), the plug-talk list for discussing why and where.
>
> Keith
>
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