No Sleep, Non-Profits and Websites
Posted: 2008-03-08 09:28:18
Last weekend I took part in the F1 Web Challenge as a developer. I arrived at 7:30am on Saturday morning, we started working at 9:00am and didn't stop until noon the next day!
The point of the whole thing? To create a website for a non-profit to help them achieve their goals without spending some of their limited funds for professional help. With 11 pairs of development teams and non-profits, they estimated that over $250,000 in time was donated!
It was very fun (I have to admit that I took a small nap around 5 am on Sunday, but only for half an hour) and we got an amazing site together. Our non-profit rep, Brian, was awesome to work with. He kept exclaiming that we were so cool for doing this for them and how they never could have had the website without us.
In the end, 11 non-profits got professional websites (all should be live within a month), 88 developers got to help out, and many volunteers provided food, entertainment and organization.
Afterward, I was in no condition to speak in sentences, let alone post something here, so I slept for about 16 hours, and went to work on Monday.
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