Ale 2.0 Charity Update

There are a number of us in the Ale 2.0 gang but one's been off wining awards and globetrotting and as for Louis (well he's pushing up foursquare's market value single handedly). Due to this and my personal inherent crapness this project hasn't been racing forward as much as hoped. But hopefully we're not entirely to blame...

I wrote to the charities a week or so ago and asked them to articulate their problem and how they felt that the time donated by the ale 2'ers could help. I have been surprised and as little unmotivated by the lack of response. It's taken a long time and some of the charities who originally expressed an interest have been slow in coming back (if at all) to say what it is they need.

In my experience if the client (or in this case the charity) don't know exactly what their problem is then there is little chance of anyone, including us being able to help out. So I will assume if they can't find the time to respond to some straight forward questions there's not much chance of working anything out in the long term.

Despite this I'm very excited about the next phase. We've got a shortlist of four charities and shortly after this blog I'll be posting the first charities pitch for the work and then asking you all to vote on which charity should get chosen.

Tom

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