I had a great time this weekend at the first St. Louis Coders 4 Charities weekend.
Over 60 people showed up to create or revamp web sites, applications and networks for nine local charities:
Our team ported three United Way web sites to DotNetNuke: http://www.211missouri.org/, http://www.211southwestillinois.org/, and http://www.100neediestcases.org/. (Those are the “prevamp” sites – The revamp sites look about the same, but will be much easier for “normal people” to administer.)
There was plenty of food - That's me holding
the world's largest pizza box.
My teammates were:
- Scott "DotNetNuke Kingpin" Allender
- Shanti “Queen of CSS” Nutheti
- Jack “Jack” Menge
- Mark “Ace” Cooper
- from the United Way, Jim “Full” House
- and our team leader Scott um… “Ate a Club Sandwich” Spradlin
Some of the teams worked late into the night last night on their projects. Ours managed fairly reasonable hours – I spent a total of about 22 hours at the site over the weekend. It was a lot of work, but a whole lot of fun. It was great to get to know some other local developers and it was an honor to be part of such a worthwhile event.
Special thanks to:
- Kevin Grossnicklaus for organizing the event:
- Muljadi Budiman, for organizing, coordinating, and setting up the C4CSTL web site:
- the aforementioned Scott "Kingpin" Allender. There were three teams using DotNetNuke for their projects, and Scott, leader of the St. Louis DNN User Group, was in high demand:
- Clint Edmonson, our developer evangelist (I was a little disappointed that "the evangelist" didn't preach a sermon on Sunday morning - maybe a reading from the Book of Azure) for (I hope) not minding that I stole these pictures from his Flickr pool (more C4CSTL pictures here)
While browsing Clint’s Flickr photos (he’s a great photographer), I was struck by the similarities between two of his recent pictures:
Give this guy a laptop and some dorky glasses:
 | ...and he'd be a dead ringer for this guy:
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Print | posted on Sunday, October 18, 2009 8:49 PM