For the second year in a row, geeks came together in Lansing for the weekend to code for charity at the Lansing GiveCamp .  The event was again held at the Impression 5 Science Center .  (If you’re not familiar with the concept of a GiveCamp, check out http://givecamp.org or the various posts...

GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. This custom software could be a new website for the nonprofit organization, a small data-collection application to keep track of...

Multiple nonprofit organizations have asked me why developers would give up a weekend to help them, no strings attached.  It's hard to say until you've experienced a Give Camp .  The uncertain coming together on Friday night, not knowing what to expect...the gradual understanding of the project...

Last weekend was another powerful, moving experience at the second Give Camp in Ann Arbor.  I blogged from the event on Friday and mentioned some of the cool new things at this year's Give Camp (showers, a popup camper, a source control server, and live streaming), but that doesn't even begin to...

Today, we kicked off simultaneous Give Camps in Ann Arbor, Columbus, and Knoxville!  I'm at the Ann Arbor camp.  At this location, here is the breakdown of technologies used on our 16 projects for nonprofit organizations.  DotNetNuke - 5 ASP.NET - 2 WinForms - 1 Joomla - 6 WordPress -...

Those of you who know me well have probably heard me gush about Give Camps at one time or another.  If you haven't, take a minute and read last year's Ann Arbor Give Camp writeup or Lansing's Give Camp summary .  In those posts, I link to a bunch of other people's posts on the events - read...

I am truly proud of the amazing people in our software development community.  The Lansing Give Camp was an inspirational weekend of coding for charity.  The Lansing Give Camp was held April 24-26, 2009 at the Impression 5 Science Center (which was an extremely cool venue...the science exhibits...

I am truly fortunate to be part of such an amazing developer community!  I am still reeling from the passion that I experienced at the Ann Arbor Give Camp last weekend.  The Ann Arbor Give Camp was a weekend-long codefest where developers, designers, and DBAs volunteered their time to create...

The local software development community, in partnership with Microsoft, is throwing a Give Camp in Ann Arbor !  A Give Camp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. This custom...