TECHdotMN: News about Minnesota Startups

By Ed Stych, Minneapolis – St.Paul Business Journal

“Bloomington tech firm The Nerdery held its annual Overnight Website Challenge over the weekend, tasking 180 programmers with creating new, pro bono websites for 18 Twin Cities nonprofits in 24 hours.

The reworked sites, some of which you can see in a slideshow to the right, include some pretty major revamps: the West African Medical Missions includes highly polished visuals for users in the United States, and a companion, low-bandwidth site for those in Sierra Leone.”

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via The Nerdery,

“From 9 a.m. Saturday until 9 a.m. Sunday, 159 volunteer web developers will donate more than 3,800 hours of professional services to 16 Minnesota nonprofit organizations selected for The Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge.

“For the third year in a row we openly challenged the entire Twin Cities web development community to force us into choosing only the 12 most qualified teams; after careful consideration we chose 16,” said Luke Bucklin, president of Nerdery Interactive Labs, a division of Twin Cities-based Sierra Bravo. “We at The Nerdery have never been more proud to be part of this awesome interactive community.”

These 16 web development teams will spend most of this weekend creating free websites for these nonprofits.”

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via The Nerdery

“What: Prior to the March 20-21 Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge, representatives from the 16 selected nonprofits and teams of volunteer web developers will gather Thursday, Feb 25 to prep for their 24-hour experience. http://www.overnightwebsitechallenge.com/

When: Thursday, Feb. 25, 6-9 p.m.: 6-7 – Group Q&A and brief advisory remarks from volunteers and nonprofits with previous Challenge experience; 7-8:20 – Speed-dating; needy meets nerdy as volunteers make the rounds to visit reps from each nonprofit for five minutes; 8:20-9 – Social time

Who: http://www.overnightwebsitechallenge.com/nonprofits
http://www.overnightwebsitechallenge.com/teams

Where: Benchmark Learning (event sponsors) 510 West 77^th St. in Edina, MN”

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by The Nerdery

“Nerdery Interactive Labs (The Nerdery) today announced 16 nonprofit organizations selected for The Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge, the web development firm’s volunteer-driven 24-hour event.

With heavy interest from volunteers, The Nerdery invited 16 web development teams – rather than 12 as planned – to spend the weekend of March 20-21 creating free websites for these nonprofits:”

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