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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.

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GiveCamp featured on CodeCast

Jan 7th

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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.