What an event!!
I just got back from doing some volunteer work at the Charity Challenge Weekend event. I was behind the camera (well, most of the time) while the 16 or so teams presented their work so I got to see what they all did. It really was an impressive and amazing event. I learned about charities that I did not even know existed and best of all, because they were showing how big a difference each of the volunteer development teams made for all of these charities. Having been the president of the Dallas .Net Users Group for two years (not without the help of a few friends that I really trust) and having put together two Code Camps (with a lot of help too) this event was nothing like the developer community events we have seen in Dallas, "Very Noble" is the first I could think of to describe the Charity Challenge Weekend event.
There were all kinds of software needs from these charities, some were really big challenges; kudos to those developers that barely slept this weekend in order to make a difference in our community. I really was impressed by some of the work that was done in just one weekend.
I guess I got my point across, I am impressed and can't wait to be part of it the next time it is done. Congratulations to the people that put it together: Toi Wright, of the Dallas ASP.Net Users Group, Chris Koenig, J. Sawyer and Josh Holmes from Microsoft, the people from BravoTech and I am sure there are more people that made it possible and I just don't know who they are.
You too can make a difference! See you there next time!!