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This is one of the cooler things I’ve seen in a while. It comes from The Edge which is a newsletter from Adobe.

While the 360 Flex Conference was going on in Seattle a group of guys who were attending the conference got together and donated their time to create a new flex application for Northwest Harvest. Northwest Harvest is a non-profit food program that provides food for nearly 300 food banks. The application will help them have a virtual food drive where anyone, anywhere can donate and will dramatically change the way they can operate.

I see some really cool results of this effort that are worth mentioning.

1. The code is open source and is available for any other food bank to use. It never ceases to amaze me how the “pay it forward” idea can snowball when you work within an open source platform
2. When people think of donating the first thing that comes to mind is opening the wallet. What’s more unique about this effort is that they donated a skill set that is finely tuned and hone.
3. As you watch the video, more than once it is said that the programmers who donated their time came away with more skills, new knowledge, new associations and expanded horizons. Time and time again I’m reminded of this in life – the more you give the more you receive. It’s a timeless law of humanity, one I believe in and one I hope to embrace more often.

Be sure to watch this video – click the image below

Thanks to my friend Jason Mitchell for passing this along.