Two more eligible developers and deserving projects have been selected.
Any proposals submitted but not selected this time will be reconsidered at each upcoming award cycle. (Refer to this to review the award criteria, details, and benefits.)
In no order of implied importance.
Nick Portelli, East Lansing, MI
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lancaster County Pennsylvania offers children opportunities for professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships with qualified volunteers. Each relationship will assist the Little Brother or Sister to become a confident, competent and caring individual. This project will upgrade the current website and include event registration and payments. The project will primarily use ASP.NET, MVC 2, JavaScript, Linq, and SQL.
Albert Rugel, Brooklyn, NY
Feed My Sheep in Waconia, Minnesota, has been serving a weekly meal every Wednesday night for the past five years. Feed My Sheep’s motto is, “Spreading a table in the presence of communities hungering for someone to know their name and that they matter.” Feed My Sheep provides an opportunity for human connection and community. This project will provide a website to post general information, a signup calendar for volunteer's who will be serving each month, list of special events, photos, map and location information, and PayPal link for donations. The primary technologies that the project is expected to use are: ADO.NET Entity Data Model, AJAX, C#, Silverlight 4.0, Bing Map, SQL Server 2008, and Blend 4.
Congratulations to Nick and Albert. These projects are especially heart-warming because of the fragility of the communities both non-profits work hard to support. Details about your awards will be forthcoming in email.
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