Have you checked out Random Hacks of Kindness? (http://rhok.org http://rhok.org) I had similar ideas with a project of mine 6 or so months ago and built a versi

Have you checked out Random Hacks of Kindness? (http://rhok.org http://rhok.org) I had similar ideas with a project of mine 6 or so months ago and built a version/part of my idea at a startup weekend (https://github.com/bglusman/diffapp https://github.com/bglusman/diffapp) before I knew about RHoK... I'd still like to do more with the idea, and am starting something hoping to help scientific research in the next few days with Mendicant University, but there are real coordination and management/leadership challenges I think... I had some ideas on how to work on them with my app, but I think it's easy to underestimate the problems. Oh, also relevant is http://codeforamerica.org http://codeforamerica.org