T – 4 weeks and counting
I made a mistake, yep I sure did, I wrote down all the things that still needed to be done and OMG there is still a lot of things that need to be purchased and done before the event. I did find out that we have more money coming in which is going to be […]
T – 5 weeks and counting
During the past week we got slammed hard by over 18” of snow. That might not sound to bad, but that on top of the 28” we got the week before and you can understand why so many people in the Southern Maryland area was going crazy with cabin fever. So about the GiveCamp, as […]
Continue to move forward
As we continue to count down the days to the first Givecamp on the East coast I am getting more worried about the mistakes that are going to be made. I am not so foolish to believe that no mistakes are going to be made, but because this is the first one I guess I […]
SoMD Givecamp
We are three months away from, what I am hoping, a historical event at St. Mary’s College. According to the givecamp cookbook, which can be located at http://www.givecamp.org/givecamp-cookbook/ we are to start recruiting developers. Being that this is the holiday season, I might be better off waiting until after the New Years before I start […]
Southern Maryland GiveCamp
Well, not all the organization have been assigned a business analyst, the reason, we don’t have enough. What does this mean, well basically it mean I have to contact them and gather their requirements myself, hurray for me, but this was my idea right. I have assign I believe 14 of the 20, so that […]
Southern Maryland Give Camp
Well we’ve spoken to all the nonprofits/charities and it looks like all 20 applications seem to be simple enough to complete. Starting Monday Dec. 7, 2009 the business analysts are going to start contact each nonprofit/charity to get more detailed requirements. It’s my hope that we can have all the requirements gathered by mid-January. I […]
Southern Maryland Give Camp
Today we stopped accepting applications from nonprofits/charities and ended with 21 requests. Now the fun really starts, each person needs to be contacted so that we can gather a little more information about the project they want accomplished. Then we need to select the projects that can be scoped out for the weekend time frame. […]