Recent News
New England GiveCamp is Online!
Feb 27th
Just added to the ranks of GiveCamp websites are our friends in the Boston area with New England GiveCamp! Check out their new website at http://newenglandgivecamp.org/ for more information about their upcoming event.
Philly GiveCamp Details
Feb 9th
I learned today that the Philly GiveCamp is off to a great start! They’ve established the beginnings of a beautiful web site at http://phillygivecamp.org, they’ve registered a Twitter account at @phillygivecamp, and most importantly, have set a date for their event as June 4-6 at the Microsoft office in Malvern, PA. Be sure to keep tabs on their event through their website and twitter accounts. I can already tell that this is going to be an AWESOME event!
GiveCamp coming to Chicago!
Feb 9th
I just got off the phone with some of the Microsoft folks and community leaders in Chicago to begin the planning stages for a Midwest GiveCamp sometime in the latter-part of June. I’ve been hoping to see GiveCamp make its way to the Windy City, and I’m really excited that there are a few folks up there passionate about GiveCamp and wanting to bring one to their area! I will relay more information once I get it.
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New England GiveCamp Announced!
Jan 24th
Just heard from Jim O’Neilabout a New England GiveCamp being scheduled for June 11-13 at NERD in Cambridge, MA! For those of you in the New England area, please help us spread the word about this amazing event and help them get things rolling! Once they have a web site up, I’ll update this site to reflect the new URL.
We Are Microsoft 2010
Jan 22nd
Dallas, TX – We are pleased to announce another successful We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend this past weekend. 130 volunteers and developers from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Arizona and Florida met at the fantastic BravoTECH offices in Dallas to build web applications for 20 charities. Some of the charities and many of the developers returned from past years to participate in this weekend’s event. Toi Wright, organizer of the event, did a fantastic job (as usual) of herding her team of business analysts, volunteers, charities and sponsors into a well oiled, application development machine.
Here are some interesting statistics from the event:
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More pictures, videos and tweets can be found on our site at the #WAM2010 archive page.
All in all, the feedback was very positive from the developers, event staff, volunteers and the charities. We’re really looking forward to putting on another one next year!
Two More GiveCamps Announced!
Jan 22nd
OH on Twitter today, the Lansing GiveCamp and the Kansas City Coders4Charities event are both scheduled for March 26, 2010. You can learn more about these events on their respective websites: http://lansinggivecamp.org and http://coders4charities.org. This will be the second year for the Lansing group, and the third year for the Coders4Charities group.
We Are Microsoft Event Videos
Jan 19th
I’m still working up a nice blog post about the recent We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge event here in Dallas, but I wanted to share this post ASAP considering all the AMAZING work that Shawn Weisfeld put into it. The full list of videos he produced can be found at http://www.drowningintechnicaldebt.com/ShawnWeisfeld/archive/2010/01/18/we-are-microsoft-aka-givecamp-dallas-2010-recordings.aspx. Shawn’s captured video from just about EVERYTHING that went on last weekend – everything from the kickoff video to the closing ceremonies, and all the training in between. Thanks a BILLION Shawn for doing all this!
Also, Toi has started putting together a listing of all the blogs, photo galleries, and more up on the We Are Microsoft web site at http://www.wearemicrosoft.com/Blog/011910.aspx. I’m working on something similar for the GiveCamp.org site to go along with the eventual blog post that I make later this week. If you have a post, video, recording, or other thing that you’d like to contribute to either (or both), send me a note and let me know. I’ll make sure that Toi gets it so that she can update her event site, and I’ll include it in my post at GiveCamp.org.
GiveCamp featured on CodeCast
Jan 7th
CodeCast Episode 62: GiveCamp with Chris Koenig
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy (@kenlevy) interviews Chris Koenig (@chriskoenig), a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft in the Dallas, Texas office. This is an in-depth discussion about the history, status, and roadmap for GiveCamp events in various cities. GiveCamp was an idea hatched by Chris a few years ago, and now there are many GiveCamp events organized around the country with expansion plans this year. GiveCamp is a weekend long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. Some events focus on a specific technology like Microsoft .NET using Visual Studio or Expression Web. But using other technologies is often a possibility such as using Graffiti, Sitefinity, DotNetNuke, Wordpress, Joomla, mojoPortal, Drupal, etc. The custom software created at GiveCamp could be a new website, a small data-collection application to keep track of members, Facebook page, a rich client or even a mobile application. This episode of CodeCast is educational for any developers or organizers considering volunteering to participate in and benefit from an upcoming GiveCamp event.
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Barry Stahl at Ignite Phoenix
Nov 23rd
Barry is planning the AZGiveCamp in Phoenix, and made this presentation to his local community
Carla McWherter at Ignite Lansing
Nov 23rd
Lansing’s own Carla McWherter spends some time at the Ignite Lansing event telling everyone about GiveCamp.
It’s really exciting to see how much excitement has been flowing through the community around GiveCamp events! Thanks Carla!!!
YouTube – LCC1957’s Channel#p/c/AB16D233EAF4188A/5/s042FUhn64c
