I’m very excited to announce that we are planning the first ever GiveCamp in the Milwaukee area: GiveCamp MKE. In fact, it’s one of the first GiveCamps anywhere.
"What’s a GiveCamp?", you ask. In short, it is an opportunity for developers, designers, DBAs, project managers and anyone else involved in the software development process to give back to the community. And we do it by doing what we know how to do best — building software. We will soon be accepting applications from various charities for software that they need. It could be anything from a website to a data collection app to a mailing list manager or anything else. For more information about the whole GiveCamp concept, and to see what other communities have had (or are planning) GiveCamps, please visit the official GiveCamp site.
We’ve been putting a lot of time into this over the last couple weeks, but we’re still not quite there. Please bear with us as we continue to finalize things, including the website itself as well as more info about the GiveCamp MKE event. Rest assured that we will be making regular updates to the GiveCamp MKE site, so please check it often or subscribe to the RSS feed to make sure you don’t miss anything. I’m sure I will also post major updates here as well.
I am very excited about this, and how things are shaping up. Remember that conference call I wrote about a couple weeks ago? That was about this. I just wish I could put all of the things I want to say into words tonight before I fall asleep, but that might take me a couple hours. :) So keep checking back here and at the GiveCamp MKE site, and I’ll eventually get it all out there.
If you have any questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to let me know, or to use the contact form on the GiveCamp MKE site.
