Overnight Website Challenge: The Countdown Has Begun!
By Alison Kay | March 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I arrived on the scene to find a slew of 160 energetic web developers buzzing around, some typing code as quickly as their fingers could handle and others animatedly telling jokes to their fellow web nerds. I say nerds in a positive way. The Overnight Website Challenge refers to the web developers who have donated their time for this cause as “an army of nerds”, while in the same context, media sources have described the event as “the nerdy helping the needy”. After all, the company who created the entire theory behind the Challenge is called Nerdery Interactive Labs.
These 160 web developers, split into 16 equal teams of 10, will transform the websites of 16 local nonprofit organizations over the course of 24 hours at the cost of a good night’s sleep. These generous developers have been supplied with a plethora of food, and more importantly, energy drinks.
The paired teams of developers and nonprofits are:
Pollywog Stew and Minnesota Jaycees
Polymorphine Power Rangers: Global Warming and Rural Renewable Energy Alliance
Ruby.MN and Homeward Bound
MSP WordPress and DesignWise Medical Incorporated
ArcStone Super Squad and Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health
Team Placeholder and Dakota Wicohan
Myths, Mysteries, and Legends and World Savvy
Bold Italic Outline Shadow and MORE: Multicultural School for Empowerment
Happy Go Lucky Robot Fun Time and Redwood Area Communities Foundation
5 Men, 4 Women, and an Animal and Kinship of Greater Minnesota
Praxis and Child Protection International
Web Monkeys and Restorative Justice Community Action
.NERD and Common Ground
Rainbow Ponycake and Minnesota Senior Corps Association
The JWT League of Embetterment and Centro Campesino
Ratchet and The Bloomington Chorale
Stay tuned for video footage of the event!
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:47 am
Oops, you mean Team Ruby.MN worked with the OTHER Homeward Bound. Not the dog rescue group.