FYI, check out railsrumble.com -- I think they've done a very good job externalizing the results of their contest!
Chris On 9/12/07, Peanutrenee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great idea! > We are organizing a similar event in Toronto for late November. Its > a 24 hour coding war between 6 developing teams and 6 charities. In > the alotted 24 hours the 6 teams must come up with an atractive > website for the prescribed charity. There are no real winners, just > end results. Each chairty will get a fully functional website from > the challange. The main purpose is to the give charities more > exposure through their website and to give us here at Indoor > Playground - Center for Innovation exposure as well. > If you have anymore questions regarding your plans for a similar event > please feel free to contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cheers, > Renee > > On Sep 8, 8:45 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks Tara you are great! > > > > -------------- Original message from "Tara Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > -------------- > > > > Definitely free...get some sponsors to throw in prizes, but award them for > > fun stuff, like "longest code written unnecessarily" and "wackiest idea", > > etc. > > > > If you can't give random prizes...it's fine. Just the reward of a fun > > hackathon where you get to come together and accomplish something in a team > > apart from 'work' is fun! Oh...see Mashpit for some > > ideas:http://mashpit.pbwiki.com/ > > > > T > > > > On 9/7/07, wilsonwrites <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > Can any of you guys help with this? > > Should it be a free event or should I charge an entry fee? > > And what should be the prize....I dont want to spend a lot of money > > just trying to create awareness about the space. > > > > I open to suggestions and criticism.... > > > > Alt Space > > Greenville, SC > > > > Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com) > > blog:www.horsepigcow.com > > phone: 415-694-1951 > > fax: 415-727-5335 > > > > > -- Chris Messina Citizen Provocateur & Open Source Advocate-at-Large Work: http://citizenagency.com Blog: http://factoryjoe.com/blog Cell: 412 225-1051 Skype: factoryjoe This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
