The community forum was opened in March 2020 to facilitate discussions, allow people to collaborate to resolve food distribution and delivery issues and help with information during novel coronavirus (covid-19).
It included wikis for changing opening hours, where to get assistance, links to trusted updates and more.
As most businesses …
To the volunteers who shared the concern, who offered and gave help, suggestions, support, time and effort.
You know who you are,
Your input definitely helped, the site got interest and as a result we have been able to sign-post people to other services as well as highlight various efforts …
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Emergency Food | The Trussell Trust UK
Trussell Trust foodbanks provide a minimum of three days’ emergency food and support to people in crisis. Learn how it works.
In a traditional foodbank, with a small budget, there is often a small space with several assistants and several people at one time seeking assistance.
In today's world this means several pepole in a small space and worse, several of those are staying constant and several are changing - potentially an …
Great efforts! I look forward to seeing how their system fits together and to see them share the open-souced code, too - brilliant!
Kudos also to like-minded Sam Saffron, Jeff Atwood and team at Discourse who are offering free hosting for certain groups - of course I discovered this after configuring our …
Issue: people are afraid to help with food deliveries due to unclear advice/guidelines
E.g. are they permitted to:
deliver at certain times of day or
use a private vehicle or
2 per vehicle or
x trips per day or
buy more than X groceries per day
In some …
Spoken to some staff in supermarket about getting in food for people who need help getting food because:
they are unable to get to the shop
cannot get a delivery arranged
(providing food for homeless, etc. will be covered further in another section)
Some issues come up about:
will the …Just signed up on the forum and have some quick suggestions:
I was unsure of what to do once signed up, Consider adding a banner that sets the context for new users, where they can go to get started etc. Check out the versatile theme component for enabling this.
To …To print and post through for vulnerable people nearby
We needed a simple solution that was proven and reliable to help people connect during covid-19.
We used the open source discourse forum software -
To create this static site we used Pelican to generate static files hosted with AWS Cloudfront.
To redirect traffic from the old domain we …
We used the Versatile Banner component in Discourse, as kindly suggested by 'booleanbalaji' on the discourse.org forum.
Heading: A place to discuss and resolve issues relating to food delivery for vulnerable people
text: 'connecting helpers' and 'helpers sharing ideas' - food suppliers / cooks / deliveries / healthcare workers / emergency services personnel / first …