suppose I parachute into mainland Africa, could I help the people with my Hacker skills?
acgourley: If someone would like to pitch in, and has has at least basic python abilities, consider helping out with Aaron Swartz's project: www.watchdog.netThere are a lot of bite-size python tasks they need help with. It usually pulling in data from a very unhelpful format and converting it to a helpful format. It's not terribly stimulating but it might be rewarding to enable the data to see the light of day.Check out things you can do at: http://watchdog.jottit.com/volunteer