ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 15 MI-Give-Camp
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The software development
community came together this past weekend to help 15 metro Detroit non-profits
at the first annual Ann Arbor Give Camp. At Give Camp, nearly 100 developers
from around the region created custom software to help non-profits solve IT
challenges ranging from Web site creation to data management.
Ann Arbor Give Camp developer participants camped out at Washtenaw
Community College from July 11 - 13, generously giving their time and
technical skills. Teams also participated remotely from Columbus, Ohio and
Knoxville, Tenn. Examples of work completed by developers at Ann Arbor Give
Camp include:
-- A searchable Web site for the Michigan Humane Society was designed to
help the more than 100,000 animals returned to shelters across Michigan be
reunited with their owners. Currently, less than 20,000 animals returned to
shelters are reunited with their owners.
-- A generic Web-based scheduling application that allows volunteers to
schedule themselves to work events for a nonprofit organization was created
and posted to CodePlex, Microsoft's online open source project hosting web
site, so that any organization can access and use it.
-- Websites were designed for a number of charities that had no web
presence.
In addition to the custom software created at Ann Arbor Give Camp, non-
profits benefited from software licenses for various products donated by
Microsoft, Infragistics, and Telerik, and Web site hosting for 18 months
donated by Verio. Combined, non-profits received more than $500,000 in
software and services.
The non-profit organizations helped through Give Camp:
-- Michigan Chapter of the National Children's Alliance
-- Michigan Humane Society
-- The Wellness Community
-- Caring Alternatives
-- Forgotten Harvest
-- Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
-- Angels' Place
-- Washtenaw County Chapter of the American Red Cross
-- Child Care Network
-- Golightly Academy of IT
-- The Information Center
-- Center Stage Drama
-- Arab American Culture Center
-- SDL EQ Enrichment Center
-- NOCIRC Michigan
"We were very happy to participate and meet the great people that
volunteered at Ann Arbor Give Camp," said Pam Smith, who attended Give Camp on
behalf of Child Care Network. "The developer team assigned to help Child Care
Network worked well together; they listed to our agency's needs and applied
the appropriate technology to create exactly what we needed. It was an
inspiring weekend ... a technical tsunami of goodwill!"
For more information on Ann Arbor Give Camp, including a full list of
event sponsors, visit http://annarborgivecamp.org/.
SOURCE Give Camp
