We’re new to Hacker News and want to cultivate a discussion about Humanitarian Crowdfunding and the open-source crowdfunding platform we’re building.

My colleagues and I are former United Nations staff and veteran humanitarian actors, we’re passionate about shortening the turn-around time and effort it takes professional-level humanitarian organizations to develop, launch and sustain operations, and we’re building a unique new crowdfunding platform to serve the humanitarian community. You can see our twitter feed at @BeehiveFund and a rough pitch deck at http://vimeo.com/98176476.

What’s cool is that we’re a totally nonprofit all-volunteer initiative bringing hackers, humanitarian actors and others together to build a platform that continuously adapts to user input and needs arising from the field. If a humanitarian group requires the ability to crowdfund via SMS or wants to channel cash-aid disbursements directly to refugees – we sort it out and do it, and integrate the capability!

This is the way to build the future of crowdfunding for humanitarian campaigns, through kick-ass open source development and real user engagement right?