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Hello I'm Rob. I'm a web developer from Yeovil, in England.
I just want to talk to you really briefly about a new project I'm opening called Open Door Internet
I've been a web developer for the last five years I program in PHP and MYSQL
and I've decided to take a sideways step and do something a little more meaningful than just knocking out commercial website
so I'm opening a training center that's going to be providing training, and hopefully employment, for the long term unemployed
because there's something really really unique and different about web development;
there's no outgoing material costs really it's just time and effort involved in making websites.
so I reckon if I take a bunch of unemployed....
... long term unemployed... people with very limited skills,
but good aptitude and a bit of effort,
and we sit together in a room I can teach them how to make websites, I can teach them how to program
I can teach them to do usability studies and accessibility studies. I can teach them how to use content managment systems,
and together
we can learn and generate
decent websites. And those websites they can be for charities, they can be for local organisations
they can be for businesses
and by doing that we should be able to bring in enough funding
to keep this scheme going.
so... [pause]
what I'd like you to do is check out the website on www.opendoorinternet.co.uk
there's going to be a little donate button so if you'd like to donate [laugh] that would be brilliant
but really just sign yourself up and register an interest and say I'm behind this idea.
I think it's great
cheers [end]