# Chalmers Cards
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Chalmers Cards is a guerilla project that works to improve the state of homelessness in Toronto.

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#### We do that by working on these two projects

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### Chalmers Cards

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### Chalmers Cards
+ The laser cut wooden booklet and includes guides and contact information for Toronto’s social services.
+ It also snaps onto a backpack!
+ Over the last year and a half, over 1,500 of these cards have been handed out to individuals experiencing homelessness in Toronto, along with shelter staff.
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## Chalmers Signal
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## Chalmers Vision
in partnership with
- the City of Toronto Data Visualization Team
- UofT's Software Engineering Partnership Program
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### Upcoming Chalmers-Goals
- Ample Labs recently paid Hot Pop Factory to make 200 Chalmers Cards!
- We are aiming the deploy the first Chalmers Signal into shelters before Christmas this year
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### Want to contribute?
Everything discussed in this talk is
+ f/oss
+ MIT licensed
+ available on the chalmers github
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### Thank you!
+ github.com/misterchalmers
+ @misterchalmers
+ zach@chalmerscards.com
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