Answer the Call: Ability Transit

I am hoping that you, a group of you or someone you know has the time and skill required to assist Geeks on Ice/United Way with the following volunteer deliverable. Ability Transit requires a dispatchin gsolution to help those they serve schedule drives and for the agency itself to run more efficiently.

The requirements are:
1. Only one user will be administering the schedule, however; scheduleshould be accessible to anyone who needs to see it.

2. There is no preference on the type of platform (Excel, Ajax, Java,GoogleDocs, etc).

3. Metrics needed:
a. Vehicle Schedule
b. Client Bookings
c. Driver Sheets (contain time, name of client, pick-up location, dropoff location, payment info and driver comments)

4. No deadline for delivery, but early fall would be appreciated.

Client Comments:

"I am looking for some sort of program or design aprogram (calendar type) so that my dispatcher can type in a date and time that someone is requesting and it will show up as to which bus(we have 3) has that time slot open, need to be able to make changes,need it to be able to type in regular clients' bookings like our Mon-Fri 9-5 clients, need to be able to print out these drivers sheetsto give out to the drivers"

The service that Ability Transit provides to our community is critical as many disabled people require transportation to work and play a bigger part of society.

If you are willing to answer the call, please, contact for AbilityTransit is Ginette Landry ability_transit@rogers.com. Please cc me,tmacausland@gmail.com on your reply to Ginette.

Kind regards,

Trevor MacAusland
Chairman
Geeks on Ice
Tel: 506.852.8096
www.GeeksonIce.com
Tmacausland@gmail.com

Geeks on Ice would like to thank its 2008 sponsors the City of Moncton, Enterprise Greater Moncton and Molson Breweries.

Geeks on Ice Raffle: Win one of Two Nintendo Wii's

Raffle tickets are now available for the 2008 Geeks on Ice charitable hockey tournament. There are many prizes to be won including one of two Nintendo Wii game consoles that are up for grabs!

Tickets are 1 for $2 or 3 for $5. the draw takes place at Molson Geekfest on Saturday, April 19th. You do not have to be in attendance to claim your prize.

Proceeds of ticket sales will towards technology upgrades for two local non-profit agencies in their fight to eliminate the digital divide!

Ability Transit provides transportation services to those persons with disabilities and no mode of transportation. They are looking for new computers for operations and scheduling as well as update their dispatch system.

BUILT Network(http://moncton.builtnetwork.ca/index.html) is a Customer Service Representative program developed specifically to provide persons with disabilities the opportunity to come together as a team to increase workplace skills and ethics. Geeks on Ice will use the funds raised build a computer lab by purchasing 12 new computers.

Tickets can be purchased at the Geeks on Ice tournament from April 18th-19th or by contacting the Greater Moncton and Southeastern NB region United Way at (506) 858-8600.



Geeks on Ice would like to thank its 2008 sponsors the City of Moncton, Enterprise Greater Moncton and Molson Breweries.