Philly Give Camp

[Jon Bringhurst]

Is anyone going?

I've been a bit skeptical that it's going to be run smoothly from the
lack of information over the past few weeks. Also,
http://phillygivecamp.org/ is still using template place mark images.

There's also the problem of *zero* buzz on twitter. The only tweets
about it are from the phillygivecamp account itself.

Sounds like a bust to me. What do you think?

-Jon

[Brian Donahue]

I'm going, and so are a few friends and fellow members of Philly ALT.NET.  I'd really love to have some ruby folks there, but I can understand your skepticism.  I'm just looking at it as hopefully a net positive on the karma scale, and possibly a learning experience for future similar efforts.  Since it's being run primarily by Microsoft, I expect a heavy dose of things like Sharepoint, and other stuff that sort of gives me the heebie-jeebies.  That's why I think it would be neat to have a ruby team or two to show 'em how it's done :)  

Either way, I'll be there.  I posted my LOTR-inspired rally cry on Twitter the other day:
"A day may come when the bowels of Sharepoint burst forth to bury the souls of men.  But it is not THIS day.  This day, we CODE!"

I told my wife and she said she got the douche-chills, so I think I'm onto something.

-Brian

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[Brian Donahue]

In case anyone is curious about the details/schedule - here is the official email about the weekend:

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From: Information Email <con...@eventbrite.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:06 PM
Subject: Message to attendees of Philly Give Camp

Hello Everyone,

Give Camp Philly is only a few days away. It is going to be a great weekend.

I want to provide you with some information before the event.

Hotel

We have secured a special rate of $ 69.00 at the Valley Forge Court Yard for those coming out of town and wanting to stay somewhere local. Hotel is about 8 miles from the event location.

• 1100 Drummers Lane
• Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087 USA
• Phone:  1-610-687-6700

Event Swag

We have some nice t-shirts for everyone including woman sizes. Make sure to pick yours up.

 

Schedule

Friday:

11:00 AM – Arrive at Venue and begin setting up (put out signs, drop off food, drinks, etc.)
02:00 PM – Begin sign-ins for attendees 
04:30 PM – Opening Ceremonies (introduce event, charities, developers)
05:30 PM – Teams forming and THE CODING STARTS!
Dinner will be available courtesy of http://www.cornucopiacatering.com/

Saturday:

Breakfast will be available courtesy of Microsoft
AM – Training for developers & charities | Continue with project
Lunch will be available courtesy of Crocodile Catering 
PM – Training for developers & charities | Continue with projects
Diner will be available courtesy of Mediterranio Pizzeria

Sunday:

Breakfast will be available courtesy of Microsoft
AM – Continue working, but start to wrap up
12:00 PM – CODE FREEZE (turn in code, finalize deployments, have lunch with everyone)
Lunch will be available courtesy
01:00 PM – Final Ceremonies (developers & charities demonstrate the application)
02:00 PM – Reception

 List of Participating Non Profits

1. Mission for Education Children with Autism http://mecaautism.org/
2. Families Fighting Flu http://www.familiesfightingflu.org/  
3. Arc Of Chester County http://www.arcofchestercounty.org/  
4. Our Cocina - http://www.ourcocina.org/
5. Philly Gives Back – Social Media Giving
6. Philadelphia Folksong Society - http://www.pfs.org/PFS.php  
7. North Philadelphia Health System - http://nphs.com/  
8. Music Works Wonders - http://musicworkswonders.com/  
9. Pa Micro Board Association – No site yet
10. Fort Washington Fire Company - http://www.fortwashingtonfc.org/main.asp  
11. Tackle ALS Foundation - http://www.tackleals.org/
12.  Casa de Consejeria y Salud Integral, Inc. - No site yet
13. Lancaster Community Service Organization - No site yet
14. Partners for Families - No site yet
15. Family Together Now – No site yet
16. Rize – No site yet
17. Aspira of Pennsyvania - http://www.aspirapa.org/  
18. Eugenio Maria de Hostos Charter School - No site yet
19. Antonia Pantoja Charter School - No site yet
20. Urban Worship Center - No site yet
21. Lancaster County Council of Churches - No site yet
22. In the Light Ministries Philadelphia - No site yet
23. Iglesia de Dios Esperanza y Amor - No site yet

Feel free to call me if you have any questions.

 

Dani Diaz 267 709 0286

dan...@microsoft.com

 

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[Steve Eichert]

I love the idea of evaluating something by its "douche-chills" score!  Nice work! :)

[Trevor Lalish-Menagh]

Well, I'll be there. I hope other Rails guys show up as well. I
emailed the host and they are really excited about it. There are over
90 devs attending last I heard and a lot of non-profits as well.

I hope to see some of you there!

Yours,
Trevor
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[Colin A. Bartlett]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Jon Bringhurst <j...@bringhurst.org> wrote:

> Is anyone going?

I had signed up but I'm skipping. Mostly because I have crap to get
done before RailsConf next week. But also because... meh, there wasn't
much buzz nor non-msft people involved that I could see.

[Brian Donahue]

Jon - I'm hoping you and/or some other ruby folks are coming, because I think I just volunteered to help out with a "very interesting" (can not vouch for it yet, but that's what I'm told) ruby project for the weekend.  Will definitely need help!

Look for me when you get here, I'm wearing a name tag.

[Brian Donahue]

Looks like we're actually building an iPhone app, with a web app component.  Pretty cool project.  Any iPhone devs that want to help are encouraged to join us :)  Unless a bunch of obj-C guys raise their hands, looks like it'll be done in MonoTouch, and hopefully not rejected by Apple's TOS!

[Danilo Diaz]

Hi,

 

I am the organizer of Give Camp  this year. I just saw some of the comments on this thread. I guess I can understand about folks being skeptical about the lack of buzz...here is the thing. This is not about buzz is about helping nonprofits. I guess I could have emailed everyone every week but then that would be consider to be spam. Buzz is created by the people volunteering.

 

I made it very clear from day one that this is not a Microsoft event. Yes I do work for Microsoft and yes we are the biggest sponsor but ALL devs are welcome. In fact we have 2 Wordpress sites, 1 rails app and 1 iPhone app. Could have been more if we had more php/rails devs.

 

That said, this is the first year we are doing this and even I did not know what to expect. After day 1 I am really optimistic that 15 nonprofits will get some much needed help and at the end of the day that is what it is all about.

 

By the way two people that where going to help me with the site never did any of the work they had told me they would so we still need volunteers to help get the site done.

 

Thanks,

Dani

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Brian Donahue <br...@pigeonmoon.com> wrote:

Looks like we're actually building an iPhone app, with a web app component.  Pretty cool project.  Any iPhone devs that want to help are encouraged to join us :)  Unless a bunch of obj-C guys raise their hands, looks like it'll be done in MonoTouch, and hopefully not rejected by Apple's TOS!

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