City of Evanston

Code-A-Thon Great Success

Posted by Wally Bobkiewicz on Jun 5, 2010 at 2:12 PM in Events

Over twenty volunteers gathered today at the Civic Center for the City's first code-a-thon. The volunteers were asked to help migrate information from the City's current website to the platform for the City's new website which is scheduled to go on-line July 1.  Volunteers were asked to choose specific assignments divided into three categories: computer user, designer and programmer.  Each assignment was geared to an individuals strengths and backgrounds.

I picked an asssignment in the "computer user" category and spent a few hours entering all of the various meetings and events on our current on-line calendar for December, 2010.  The other volunteers at my table were heavy into code writing.  I think at least two had Ph.Ds.

For their efforts, the volunteers received coffee and tea generously donated by Argo Tea, lunch and a goodie bag of City of Evanston giveaways.  But perhaps the biggest gift of all was an official City of Evanston Code-A-Thon t-shirt!!

Topics: Website