What To Bring To Charity Hack

We’ve gotten a few emails about what to bring this weekend so here’s a quick list. A laptop, netbook or other computing device (please don’t bring your desktop… we don’t have the space) A Sleeping bag (many of the attendees will be coding through the night but the occasional couple of hours sleep is permitted) A Towel (Did we mention that we have showers!) A victory...

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Charity Developer Challenge : Breast Cancer Campaign

Brest Cancer Campaign have set a challenge for our attendees, would you like to know more : Breast Cancer Campaign is looking for ways to increase awareness and generate support of our national fundraising event, wear it pink, across the UK and Ireland. Through the use of social media and PayPal we hope to engage our supporters whilst providing an alternative, easier means to donate to the...

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And Now For The Prizes…

We have managed to secure 3 prizes for the charity hack weekend and they will be as follows Prize for best Web application: 1 Economy flight to San Francisco (must stay 1 Saturday) including 1 ticket for PayPal Innovate 09  with 3 nights stay at the conference hotels in central San Francisco read about PayPal innovate here https://www.paypal-communications.com/innovate2009/ Prize for best Mobile...

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A Message From Bright One

“Bright One are looking to develop a widget that tracks and displays the professional development and activity of its volunteers. The sample areas that they would develop in include loyalty, volunteer of the month, client satisfaction, creativity, leadership, organisation – though these may be added to or changed over time. This widget be as simple as a badge that sits on...

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Calling All Hackers!

There is less than a month until Charity Hack day, it’s time to start thinking about teams, a project and well, getting down here. We just want to make something clear, although we have lots of API goodness available for you to use on the day and we have some charitable sponsors, we are not forcing the use of these, if you have a good idea that will help any charity then that’s good...

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