I'd like to get a group of people to build a subreddit dedicated to direct, focused contact with elected officials. It would be simple. Representatives and senators take personal contact VERY seriously. By getting a good group together, organizing issues that most of us agree on, and focusing on a handful of representatives/senators at a time, we can make an impact. Think or any political drama you have seen. To get a bill to pass, most of the time you don't need a lot of people to change opinions, just a select few.

What we need:

Team of mods:

• designer (make the subreddit accessible and professional)

• researchers (3-4 political science students or REALLY up to date lay folk. I suggest polisci or government students because they can better pin point where the most impact can be made. They serve as support for the rest of the group)

• poll specialist (someone in charge of polling, running the data, and determinating what are the issues that we should focus on. Ideally, this person would also be up to date on upcoming bills and votes, since they have a large influence on what issue we focus on)

• organizational manager (a person dedicated to scheduling when groups of people will call or send letters or send emails. Ex: The impact of daily calls spread out over weeks is greater than 25 people in one day.)

• dispute mitigator and PR (this person helps dispute the differing opinions of the group, while helping to maintain diversity of opinions. This is to prevent witch hunting or circlejerking)

With a group as small as 30 people, we can pester a representative twice a day, everyday, for a whole month. Contact that BY LAW the representative/senator MUST respond to. Numbers like that are not easily ignored.

Who's with me on actually having an impact on our government?

I need some help. I would like to find my dad. Or at least gain some information about him. I know absolutely nothing about him, other than his name (barely), and a very old picture of him from years ago (17 years to be exact). I have no idea if this is the right subreddit to post this in, but reddit is the only place I know where I have a chance at actually finding something. I have no money. I can't offer anything in return other than some digital art I make. I can draw some non-NSFW art for you in return is what I'm saying. This is a free commission that you can use as a gift, or for yourself. I can send it to you via reddit, or whatever you choose and you can do what you want with it.

I don't plan on contacting this man. I just want to know who he is. If he had social media, even better. I just want to know if this man exists. I've tried searching, but everytime I use the online "yellow pages" I run into needing to pay for something, and the closest I've come is that. If you cannot help, I ask that you either upvote, or pass this around somehow so that I can find someone who can. I'm using a very old throw away account as I don't want anyone who may know me finding out what I'm doing, and that can cause drama. I really just want to find some info, nothing more. If you're willing to help, then PM me, as this is personal and I'm giving out someone else's name.

Edit: Thank you, thank you so much. This really means a whole lot to me. I've gotten quite a few PM's and all of these people are all willing to help me. This really means a lot. Once again, thank you.

Here's what I'm thinking. It will show up on a minimalist-style page so not much different:

Transcript view: http://imgur.com/Yi5SY2g

Candidate page: http://imgur.com/twQxiQI

Candidate contradictions page: http://imgur.com/KaGwaV9

This project is primarily concerned with how much obfuscation is occurring during election season. I'm less concerned at this point with what promises get fulfilled once the candidate is in office.

We want to know our candidates -- what they believe, and what they really plan to do in office. The fact that they need to appear to change their minds in order to become more appealing does not make it acceptable. A well-informed electorate is inconsistent with utterly shapeless candidates.

I have zero programming knowledge, so I really need your help. I am prepared to refine and iterate this idea as we go, and have left a few details out of this post for simplicity's sake, so if you're interested, please let me know. Thanks!

You've probably seen the recent story of three people looking for their twin strangers. I would like to start a sub where everyone can search for their own doppleganger.

/r/twinstranger

I'm pretty new to reddit and have no idea how to build a sub and get people to visit it. I'm looking for a moderator or two that can help. Thanks!

The primary goal is to house artists, educators, and technology/science experts in a community where they can collaborate with one another and the public on finding great ways to use available resources to serve the needs of the people, so that everyone can be their best, most creative, healthy, and productive selves.

Here's a website with more info on my dream project:

http://www.createspaceearth.org/

What I need right now is mostly folks who can help with:

• Making a more interactive website

• Promoting the idea

• Finding one or more physical properties where we can actually house the first centers (ideally an old farm, church, school, multifamily house, or some other space that is zoned for both public and private use, as folks will be living there as well as running workshops and having studios there).

This is something I've been looking to create for many years now, and just haven't gotten the momentum for it to take off yet.

Oh, and I should mention that I hope to do this with as little money as possible! The idea is to have this be more of a peer-to-peer non-profit thing, where folks help out directly.

Talking to Melvin for just a few minutes will have a smile on anyone's face. He is a 70 year old mixed race, gay, former drug addict who was born and raised in a racially charged Southern Alabama. The stories are so outrageous that you can't put this quick read down until its over. From the time he was paid by a New Orleans tourist to pitch oranges at their naked bottom to the paranoid episodes resulting in undue panic and disaster, Melvin's book is filled with entertainment!

I have some internet marketing experience and I am a skilled writer. I immediately wanted to help Melvin make his book a success and get his stories out to the world. The reviews from the few people who have bought his book on Amazon are heartfelt and confirm my feelings about his book's potential.

Check out the book listed here on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Things-People-Do-Crack-Stories/dp/1500134406

Here's what I want to do for Melvin's Book:

1.) Revise the original 38 page version adding many more of his stories and creating a clean version (its explicit), create an e-book version and audio book version. I want to be able to market his book for him online and in-stores.

2.) I want to get Melvin a website and possibly a podcast and Youtube channel.

3.) I want to redo his graphics and build his brand, "Mr.Crack".

He told me that people reached out for his stories to better understand the crack addiction. Some had children addicted to the drug, some want to prevent their children from trying it. What I need help with to make this project a reality is a device to give Melvin where he can record himself telling stories for me to transcribe, podcast equipment like microphones and editing programs, capital to pay for transcription, graphics designers and other freelancers to help me expedite the project.

Melvin is not getting any younger and I know there will never be another human quite like him and willing to share his life story to entertain and enlighten everyone! I want to get his brain empties and I also want him to be able to make some money before his life is over. Melvin is open to royalties and profit sharing agreements for any one who may want to invest in getting this project done. I have written agreements available to make a legally binding deal. It won't take a lot to get this rolling so if your interested please reach out to me. I am also open to any advice or recommendations as well.

Here is a review from his Amazon listing:

New York Times Best Seller Worthy

July 14, 2018

Format: Paperback Verified Purchase

"This book is undoubtedly the greatest piece of literature ever written. Written by Mr. Crack himself, and edited by no one. This makes the book the most honest depiction of the effects that crack has on a person. No one, to the best of my knowledge, has ever come close to bringing the reality of this drug to everybody's attention. While I am being honest with my review of this book, i must say that it is by far the most disgusting thing I have ever read. I now think less of myself since I have read it. It is like a train wreck. You don't want to look, but you can't stop yourself from looking.

I found out about this book from a friend. He was drunk one night in New Orleans. He wondered around in an alley and ran into some random guy. Hung out with him for a few hours. Went to the strip club, and even ate beignets at Cafédu Monde at 6:00 a.m.. When my friend was leaving, the guy told him he wrote a book. Sure enough, that guy ended up being the author himself, Mr. Melvin 'Monk' Kidd. I had no choice but to buy this book after hearing this story.

To me, this book serves one purpose and I believe it does it better than anything ever could. It is hands down the BEST anti crack piece of writing I have ever seen, and it stands at only a staggering 38 pages. I truly believe every human being in the world needs to by this book. Whether you read it or not is irrelevant. The reason everyone should own a copy is simple. Just in case your life falls apart. You lose everything. The house. The wife. Kids don't even want to talk to you. Life is so bad you think about turning to drugs. You quickly move your way up the ladder of death and contemplate smoking crack. At that exact moment is when you pick up the book. Within the first paragraph I can guarantee that your lips will NEVER touch that pipe. Ever. Plain and simple. Now for most people, there would never even be a possibility of them smoking crack and I understand that. For a measly $10, you can guarantee with a 100% certainty you will never smoke crack. This book would be the best investment in anyone's life.

In conclusion, Melvin has shown this world once again that the late Rick James was correct. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Her name was Snowflake, registered name Tamarah, and she was sold to a family in the Northfield, MN area for around $700. I believe I was about 16 at the time, so she must have been sold sometime around 2003, but I'm not sure. The family could have lived outside the area, but I'm pretty sure they lived south of the Twin Cities, and I THINK they had kids who were home schooled. She was petite and about 14 hands high, and she was around 13 years old, so it's possible she isn't alive anymore, but she might be. My mom sold her after we had a gigantic fight when I was thinking about living with my dad, (divorced parents probs) and I never said goodbye to her because I was so angry at the entire situation. I would love to know what happened to her. I've posted on Craigslist and haven't heard anything back, as well as a few Northfield Facebook groups - without any responses. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your help!

Congratulations /r/TeamItUp: You are Subreddit of the Day!

A few months ago I came here looking for people to join my team to make an animated short for a 48 hour film competition. As a thank you to the sub, I'd like to share what we made.

HERE is the slightly polished version I finally finished tweaking and HERE is the original version we turned in to the competition.

Who wants to create a new country? I think most of us want to make the world a better place. If you can't make things better in your country because of laws, politicians, the ignorant or uncaring masses, lawyers, and the myriad other barriers, creating a new country in place of a corrupt old one could be an alternative. I'm not even the first person to suggest this in /r/teamitup

Tell me what kind of country you want and what you'd change about your own if you could

I'm on disability for schizo-affective disorder so I have plenty of time on my hands.

I've mostly been using that time to focus on making music, but I'm coming to realize that it's going to take me a few years to get good at it, and in the meantime I can't just live in a bubble and isolate myself off from the world.

With a recent death in the family it's been causing me to re-evaluate things and I've been working on building my website in an effort to define myself so I can relate to others better ~ http://hathorslove.com

I'm not very religious but I am very spiritual and I'm trying to understand life. Although I think that life is mostly what you make it and what's important is being the change you want to see in the world.

The stuff I'm interested in are things like Basic Income, The Placebo Effect, Harm Reduction, Psychedelic Research, Spirituality (free from religion), Transhumanism/Singularity, helping the homeless, and of course making music and doing art projects. I also likely have other interests that I've yet to define.

I'm very analytical, and although I'm no longer doing much with my IT skills I do have a background in programming and web development. I just got kind of burned out on it, hence the low-effort web design for my site.

I have considered things like an open source project to make a software synthesizer. Or something like a harm reduction drug database wiki that is a bit more organized the erowid. But I don't want to reinvent the wheel too much either, although that's something I'm pretty good at (reverse engineering ideas and coming up with my own take on stuff).

I live in Mesa, AZ area but I don't have a car so it's a little hard to connect with people locally.

I'm not opposed to starting something rather than joining something existing, but I have a tendency to get a bit anxious and overwhelmed if I take on too much. I have worked for a lot of start-up companies in the past but I'm kind of over the money thing so I'd rather focus on non-profit type initiatives.

I would like to volunteer a portion of my energies somewhere though so that I'm not just sitting at home on the computer all the time or getting into long debates that usually end in people telling me to get professional help.

I'm crazy but what will help me more than being reminded of that is being able to align myself with others who share similar interests and goals.

I want to do things to make the world a better place moreso than just wax philosophical about theoretical ideas.

Hey guys. I'm trying to keep my dad alive.

Let me explain.

He's an emergency triple bipass survivor who flatlined on the table. He's had 4 blood clots and 3 TIAs, two of which have been in the last two months (coincidentally that's how long his house has been for sale) He's on 15+ medications and he doesn't ever complain. He is a good man who is just trying to sell his home, and it's killing him.

He's close to 70 and in failing health and he and my mom are trying to sell their home to move in with me. I'm sincerely afraid he won't make it. His biggest loves in life are God, my mom and my daughter- His only granddaughter. I'm sure I'm in there somewhere but it's very apparent I'm toward the bottom of the list when my girl is around :-)

It's a gorgeous home but the main issue they're facing is "It's beautiful. Everything we've always wanted BUT it's on a corner"

I'm appealing to you to help in anyway you can:

Prayers. If someone knows someone who wants a home in the Chicagoland area. If someone is a realtor who can sell this home faster.

Anything. Any ideas.

Please. This is a very big world where anything can happen.

YouTube video, comic book, sketch, gameplay commentary, improv. Anything! As long as you give me freedom to have fun with it I'm yours.

[Don't hesitate to write even if the post is old.]

In 2006 an Ohio branch of a moving company called North American Van Lines lost my Grandfather's chest FULL of precious family photos that dated back many years (great great great grandparents, family trees, etc). The chest started in Dayton Ohio (origin) but never ended up in Shasta Lake California (target destination). I know that the truck stopped and offloaded in Colorado and one other city along the way (currently unsure of this city's name). Unfortunately this happened in January/February 2006 and my grandpa searched all over the place for the chest at the time but hit many dead ends. My grandpa was basically alone in his search as I was too young, his daughter (my mom) was too busy, and customer service was very unhelpful. He has since passed away and was unable to continue his search for this precious family heirloom. I'm retracing his steps from where he left off 14 years later with the hope that the internet may be able to assist!

What I know summary:

• Grandfather's house in Tipp City Ohio = where chest originally lived for many years

• Chest's starting position for moving company = Dayton Ohio

• Chest's unreached target destination = Shasta Lake California

• Truck carrying the chest was also carrying 2 other homes' belongings

  • The first home is in a city currently unknown to me

  • The second home was in Colorado

  • The third and final home was in Shasta Lake California where my grandpa was moving to

• The chest that started in my grandpa's home in Tipp City Ohio was moved to a moving warehouse in Dayton Ohio and was lost by North American Van Lines at some point after that because the chest was either:

  • not labeled by the moving company as belonging to my grandfather at the house it was picked up at (Tipp City Ohio).

  • or because it was dropped off in a destination other than the intended target drop off location (Shasta Lake California). Again, the truck had 2 stops before the target destination.

• Chest was a black metal chest with brass clasp and rivets. Roughly 4 ft wide x 3ft deep x 2ft tall

  • Full of family trees, photos, etc that I have names of

• Was last seen January/February 2006 at the Dayton Ohio branch of the North American Van Lines Company but we are unsure if it was left in the warehouse there or was left with one of the other homes the moving company was assisting with

• Because the chest was likely not labeled in my grandfather's house at the original location, they were unable to track where it was back in 2006 when my grandpa was fervently searching. They also refused to give my grandfather any information other than the fact that they were looking for the chest and that they were hitting dead ends

  • This means there is no paper trail of where the moving company said they were looking back in 2006, only anything my grandfather might have written down at the time which is now obviously lost

• I currently don't have any information in regard to tracking numbers, receipt, etc because this happened so long ago. However, I'm currently trying to pursue this with the moving company's customer service (they are unsurprisingly extremely slow and very unhelpful)

I'm not even entirely sure of what kind of help to ask for but any help would be greatly appreciated; even pointing me in a direction would be awesome. It would mean so much to my family just to find anything about what happened to our heirloom.

Almost a year ago now we had the same problem as many of you here at r/TeamItUp. We had promising ideas but couldn't find a team capable of bringing them to life. That's what subreddits like this are for, after all!. But after years of ideas falling through the cracks we decided to take teaming to the next level.

Foundery is a platform that connects people with skills around world-changing visions. If you have a great idea, and need teammates to help you bring your idea to life, look no further! We use information about your skills and interests to recommend strong, flexible teams!

Check it out: https://wearefoundery.com

Foundery was born and developed by redditors, and wouldn't be the platform it is today without the help of motivated and innovative young entrepreneurs like yourselves. If you choose to give the platform a shot, and have any complaints, questions, or criticisms, don't hesitate to reach out in the comments or at [email protected].

Thanks for trying it out!

Hey everyone! Sorry for the wall-of-text, but I assure you that it's worth reading! As someone who have participated in many co-working projects through Reddit, we may have all come to a dilemma where we need some kind of service, but no one wants to be the one to foot the bill.

Well, starting in a couple weeks (hopefully), I'm planning on offering project groups a bunch of free services that we may all need once in a while. Some dev related ones include:

1. site & file hosting

2. database space

3. file storage & backup

4. access to a CDN (maybe)

5. • more if possible.

Furthermore, I'll also be offering non-dev services such as:

1. get a (relatively-simple) website coded for you

2. hassle-free set-up (we can set up server space for you; need a CMD like wordpress? we'll set that up for you too)

3. heuristic evaluations & A/B tests

4. UX, UI, brand & logo design

5. free content platform (for portfolios, podcasts, blogs, vlogs, etc.)

6. • more if possible.

Like I said, all this is free for users. The entire project is not for profit (we won't require you to host ads or anything). At the current time, we're still setting things up, but would like to gauge the public interest.

If you're interested in participating, PM me:

• brief description of your project(s)

• what services you would be interested in

• whether your project is for-profit or non-profit

Feel free to ask questions below!

Hello !

I have two interesting ideas that have potential to become successful projects.

Over the years growing up I realized a few essential things about my self and others.

• We love socializing and making friends/connections and other relationships

• We love improving our selves and we are constantly looking for ways to improve out selves even more ( because it betters our day to day life and especially our social life )

I see that a lot of people are unlucky with their life circumstances and are finding it difficult to socialize, make new friends or find it impossibly hard to improve some aspect of their life often quitting what they start after just a few days.

I plan to start off by developing two subreddits that will address the above issues.

First sub is 21Day - I came up with the idea and the name while reading Internet articles, self help books and autobiographies of influential people. The thought of building good habits and eradicating bad habits in just three weeks or 21 day sounded very appealing to me. And I think that it will be appealing to the future visitors.

I have tested this on my own skin and I can attest that it did help me build certain habits in three weeks because I finally set a goal and I set time frame within which the goal had to be completed. The only problem was that I didn't have any support, I was facing my demons alone and there was no one to hold me accountable for my results. Everyone needs support, even the worlds top athletes have managers, coaches and trainers to keep the athletes accountable and committed to their training schedule, diets, events etc. because they wouldn't get to the point where they are now if they were doing it all alone.

So what will 21day offer its members ?

It will offer the following :

• To set specific goal and time frame for completion

• Guidance, tips and advice from staff and members

• Platform to register and improve results

• Friendly and supportive community

• Incentives to participate and achieve goals

• Organized events

There are plans to monetize this project in future. So when the community grows and reaches 20-50k I plan to launch a website and an app that will offer more features Profit will be split proportionally to the work contributed by each team member

Second Sub is Social Tribe - This sub is focused on giving people a place to socialize, make friends, professional connections, spiritual connections, romantic friendships and other types of relationships.

I've checked few other major subs that tailor for those users who want to make new friends or those who seek somebody to talk to. Firstly I've noticed that their communities are poorly managed because there isn't a sense of a defined community. It feels like some of those subs are built upon vague ideas and goals that don't really lead the sub and it's members anywhere. It feels so empty there ... You sign up, create a post, exchange skype or facebook ID with someone in PM or have a quick discussion in the comments and that is as far as socializing in those subs gets you. They don't even offer any advice on how to improve your social skills, I think this is a major flaw because the reason why a lot of people resort to these subs is because they lack social skills to make good friends or they are not happy with their current social circle.

This is why I came up with the idea of a sub Social Tribe Where I really want to focus on the mechanics of socializing, shape and define the community, give people reason to comeback the following day, actively create other ways to interact aside from traditional text posts and organize events and real life meet-ups. There are so many

So to sum up what Social Tribe will offer :

• Community that is focused on socializing and improving social skills

• Guidance, tips and advice from staff and experienced members on improving social skills

• Platform to socialize via text, voice, web-camera

• Yearly/Monthly/Weekly meet-ups

• Organized competitions

• Organized events

Do you share my idea and vision ? Did you find these projects interesting and worthy of your attention ?

If yes, then I would like to speak to you !

I'm building a Team who will help me with the following :

• Moderating/Creating Subreddits ( CSS, HTML, Photoshop, WIKI, Enforcing rules, Spam control etc.

• Promoting Subreddits and building communities

• Developing and managing projects

If you are up for the task and ready to commit your time and energy leave a comment saying how you can contribute and which project you would like to work on.

I'm considering starting a company to help people pay less for energy.

Its a lot of complicated math to figure out the cheapest way to power, but I have the skills to automate it and make it easy for a normal guy to find a good deal.

All you'll have to do is give a zip code and your last 6 months of usage.

Its important people realize the service is independent from any service provider.

Is there a good simple name for the company/website?

Hi!

I'm the lead developer of police project, and the creator of it. Basically what we are building is a system that is designed to take interaction reports from people who encounter police, allowing you to add the specific police, departments, involved, and allow others to look at these and the types of interactions police in their area have with the community.

Most of the development is done, right now I am going through and updating the design, fixing bugs, and adding minor code changes (creating new bugs). May 16th is the public launch date for the alpha release.

I'm working with 2 others, one is helping me with writing, and another is doing FOIA research & writing to help gather more data.

Here are the first public pictures showing the website. This is pretty close to how it will look for release; mostly trying to focus on small improvements and bug fixes and the updates to the design will be based on community feedback.

On some things we need help with:

• One of the massive parts we need help with is social media & marketing, finding interesting content, posting under our accounts. The more people who know about this, the better. This is something we have next to no skills in, and is crucially important for success.

• Doing research (inc. field research). Do you interact with people who have been abused by police? (you probably have met some and didn't even know it). Finding these stories and helping them to become public is massive.

• Writing articles: if you have a knack for writing, we have an open mic :D

• Design : This is just our first revision, our alpha product. I want to improve on this, widen the scope, add more things.. good design is essential for captivating and making an impact.

• Video editors -- We could do a video on a regular basis covering stories, helping to market police project, & just for fun :)

• Developers, fix my bugs and lets make more!

I want to have every police officer who is abusing people brought into public view, this is a monumental task and the more people working on this together- we have a multiplier effect.

If this sounds interesting to you, shoot me a message and lets talk. There is a ton to do. Thanks

I'm leaving on a bicycle tour this May, with the goal to hit every state along the way and do a wide-range of service as I travel.

I'm looking for anyone else interested in joining me for any part of this trip and helping out at various places along the way(the whole tour will be a little more than a year so I don't expect anyone else to ride with me the whole time)

I plan on picking up trash pretty continuously (already have the trash picker and bag set up for my bike trailer), and I've already set up a few service opportunities with National Parks as well.

I think it'd be fun/good to look at various causes and non-profits in each state and do some volunteering with them - animal sanctuaries, Habitat for Humanity, youth camps, veterans, etc...

If interested in spending an average day riding a bike, stealth camping, and spending a day or two a week helping a good cause, or if there are any causes you think I should help, let me know!

I'm a 25 year old college slacker who loves the outdoors and simplicity of riding. I've done a cross-country bicycle tour already amongst other adventures, so I'm confident in my ability. And I do have a website but I don't want to promote it here, so PM me if you want to learn more about me/the trip.

Route from summer to fall

Route from fall to Spring 2016

I just want something simple but cute!! I'm not from the area so I don't even know where to begin.

Hey guys and gals. I love this sub but am disappointed I can't really offer my skills because nobody is requesting them!

If any of you out there are actually gaining momentum with your projects and money is coming in (or going out), call me, your new accounting and finance guy! I'm willing to help and give advice free of charge, just keep me in mind when you make it big and need a full time accountant (or at least a regular consultant).

I have experience in many industries and have a lot of experience with startups and very small companies, including setting everything up from scratch.

Just hit me up with any questions or a brief explanation of what you need help with and I'll let you know what I can (or can't) do.

Disclaimer: I am located in the U.S. Accounting in the U.S. can be wildly different than accounting in any other country. However, thus usually only matters if you are a publicly traded company and when it comes time to file taxes. So if you are outside of the U.S. I will most likely be able to help you but wanted to explain this up front.

P.S. Don't come to me with accounting homework. Homework is harder than real life and I don't want to deal with that.

I've been an avid board gamer for over a decade and for a few years now I have dreamed about making a board game myself. While, even if I can't find someone, I'm going to keep plugging away at this, I'm curious to see if there is anyone like minded.

My ideas tend to be more ameritrash. The current project I'm writing on is an arcade styled dungeon crawl.

Thanks for the read.