I know of no methodology in place for using rating or ranking
or any of the bayesian work on recommendations for charities. (01)
"Peter P. Jones" <ppj@concept67.net> writes: (02)
% Hi,
%
% > What other features are you looking for in this hypothetical
% > API?
%
% Ok, my original minor vision was this. Sites like technorati.com have
% those little Top Tags boxes where the words get bigger when they have
% more hits. So I thought, what happens if each word is a charity, and
% when someone clicks on it and makes a donation that notches up the
% ranking of the charity and the charity name in the Top Tags box gets
% bigger? And maybe next to the charity names is another box with donor names.
% Then I thought, what happens when a user wants to add a charity not in
% the existing list? I would like them to just enter the base URL of the
% charity website, and my proposed site would then just poll some
% standardised RESTful link with, say, XMLRPC etc. to make donations happen.
% That made me think about the possibilities of charities having a
% standardised RESTful API via which donations could be made. For example,
% if their finances follow an irregular pattern folks don't usually want
% to sign up to a hundred different monthly debit orders; they want to be
% able to donate when money and mood coincide; and they might want to be
% able to distribute the donation across, e.g. 100 charities.
% So what happens if folks can have a tool like an RSS newsreader, that
% aggregates the RESTful links to various charities, and when they slap in
% some donation amount they can choose the percentage distribution to
% their 100 charities, prioritising some. And they can subscribe and
% unsubscribe to having a certain charity in their list at the click of a
% mouse.
%
% Anything like that already out there?
%
% --
% Peter
%
%
% John Sechrest wrote:
% > There are bunches of websites that make that thing happen.
% >
% > Things like http://www.networkforgood.org
% >
% > There are many donation processing systems, which are really
% > just visa processing or paypal processing tools.
% >
% > What beyond paypal do you need?
% >
% > Well... for political purposes, the law in the US requires
% > political organizations to track who gives what. To make that
% > happen, the folks at civicspace have been working on a donation system
% > that will track who does what.
% >
% > http://www.civicspacelabs.org and they now have a hosted solution
% > on http://www.civicspaceondemand.org
% >
% > So... What is a "standard api for donations"?
% >
% > A website that does ecommerce? -> Done
% > A website that lets you select a donation? -> Done
% >
% > A website that lets you manage members and data about members and
% > track dontations? -> Done
% >
% > What other features are you looking for in this hypothetical
% > API?
% >
% >
% >
% >
% >
% >
% > "Peter P. Jones" <ppj@concept67.net> writes:
% >
% > % Hi,
% > %
% > % It occurred to me today that the world might benefit from charity
% > % websites having a standard API through which they could accept a
% > % donation. Anyone know if there already is such a thing?
% > %
% > % Cheers,
% > % --
% > % Peter
% > %
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