Out and proud co-Facebook founder Chris Hughes have started a new social networking platform called Jumo.com. It will be a social platform for global volunteerism.

Chris Hughes, all of 26, has been very active since his student days.

He co-founding Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, his roommate at Harvard. He then took leave from the social networking behemoth and joined Barack Obama's presidential campaign, where the fresh-faced Queer boy from Hickory, N.C. became part of an A-list new media team. There, he served as the architect of My.BarackObama.com -- or MyBO, the most successful network of volunteers and grassroots army that American presidential campaigning had ever seen.

He's got this to say about his new project: "I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology. By global development, I'm talking about a broad umbrella -- health care, agriculture, education. I just knew I wanted to do something in that space, and I spent the last year traveling" (in countries such has Kenya and Senegal, which he fell in love with) "and talking to people". Hughes added:" I spent the past year researching, studying, learning everything I could in the space."

On Saturday, he announced the "soft launch" of Jumo -- which, in the African language of Yoruba, translates to "together in concert." Think of the site as philanthropy, volunteerism and social networking all rolled into one. It's a platform that will connect people and organizations around the world, and Hughes is arguably the most well-known tech entrepreneur to enter the still evolving global space.

Currently just a few pages, the site will launch fully sometime between September and October. Well worth looking into when the time comes, we think.