We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge

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I am issuing a challenge to the development community in Northwest Arkansas to attend this event and make a difference.

The We Are Microsoft - Charity Challenge Weekend is a software development competition for a good cause.

This 3-day event matches developers with charities to develop applications for those charities. At the end of the 3 days, all of the participants will vote and the winners will be proclaimed champion coders.

A few of us went down for this last year and had an awesome time working with other developers to use our craft to provide needed software for charities in the greater Dallas, TX area.

We are building a team this year, if you are interested in joining out team please register at the http://wearemicrosoft.com website specifying the team name “CodeHogs” and shot me an email so we can coordinate travel and lodgings.  Registration deadline is November 28, 2008, register today!!!!

Another reason I would like to get a huge turnout for this is to gain some knowledge to have one of these event in Northwest Arkansas.

The We Are Microsoft – Charity Challenge Weekend is part of the GiveCamp Series of events.

By Jay Smith on November 19, 2008 at 9:23 AM
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Tim Tyrrell
11/19/2008 8:29:32 PM #

A few of us Wal-Mart guys plan to go but we all think that the team name [b]SUCKS![/b]

jay.smith
11/20/2008 9:09:29 AM #

Tim, not sure if you are joking or serious.  Either way I encourage you to participate even if you start a different team.  I was starting to get asked what the team name was and I just picked one at random, didn't realize it would be such a big deal.

Tim Tyrrell
11/20/2008 6:29:42 PM #

I am serious!  I just mean that not one of us is from Arkansas, so we are kind of sick of the Hog-madness.  Not a big deal, don't worry!  Although, I think we may be bringing at least four from my work, so we may need another team, anyway.

jay.smith
12/1/2008 9:37:46 PM #

I haven't had any confirmations that anyone has signed up for the team. I am thinking about just being a volunteer at this years event instead of on a team.  Let me know if you signed up with this team name.

Thanks

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