From the C4C website:
"The 3rd annual Coders 4 Charities weekend is scheduled for Friday, March 26 through Sunday, March 28, 2010 at Centriq Training in Kansas City, Missouri. The weekend pairs up teams of web developers, designers and analysts with representatives of local charities who receive "extreme makeovers" of web sites or full online applications for their use in just 48 hours.
In the spring of 2008, five area non-profit organizations received complete online solutions or "revamps" from nearly 30 developers and designers in the Kansas City area between Friday night and Sunday afternoon. In the spring of 2009, there were eight area non-profit organizations and nearly 40 developers and designers.
Volunteer programmers and designers will work intensely at all hours throughout the weekend, fueled by a steady stream of catered meals and energy drinks from local sponsors, taking occasional breaks to play "Rock Band" in a room set up especially for that purpose, taking time to convene in conference rooms with whiteboards to plan strategy with charity representatives.
Charities often do not have the funds to implement a new website, intranet or database solution, while software developers may not volunteer for charity work because the needs are not adequately publicized."
Here's a list of the charities they'll be helping this year:
1st Breath
Hope House
Kansas City Hospice House
Kids and Cars.org
LIVESTRONG Army of Kansas City
Harvest Home Inc.
Community Services League
The Gifted Learning Project
Merriam Christian Church
Redemptorist Social Services Center
Being a proactive sort, I contacted the event's coordinator, to see if they might also be able to use some web content/copywriting help, in addition to the mad coding going on. It sounds like the thought hadn't really occurred to him, but he talked with some charities, and they were interested. So I'll be the lone copy girl at the event. :) I expect to tweak some content messaging, as well as create some technical documentation for the web functionality created during the weekend.
Here's a video of highlights from last year's Coders4Charities event - I'm really impressed by the whole deal.
Coders 4 Charities, 2009 from Buck Sommerkamp on Vimeo.
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