Food for thought

For few months I have been thinking on another way, beside blogging, on contributing to the wider community.

Blogging is a very nice way of sharing your knowledge. How many of us have been stuck on a technical issue and found one or more pointers on Google? it took some one to experience the same kind of problem and then the will to share his or her experience through a blog or diary.

I originally come from a third world country and I have been thinking that there may be some organisations, on developing countries,  that want to improve their process through the use of software. Some of these organisations may not be able to afford such software or the configuration of a complex software system. So after some thought I decided that my personal project would be to build a software to help schools to manage their information.

I am planning to develop the main core of the functionalities or modules and then release it as an open source so other developers can contribute to it as well.

As always if you have any thought about this endeavour of mine , please feel free to comment on it.