C4C Coders 4 Charities
Geeks giving back to the community in St. Louis
coders4charities

Dates of Event: October 16th thru October 18, 2009
Where: Washington University's Center for the Application Information Technology (CAIT), St. Louis, MO

Coders 4 Charities is an effort that was initiated to involve the local IT community to help and raise awareness of local charities. There are similar events that have been held in other cities with Kansas City being the closest to us. 
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Personal Comments:

The organization I participated in with fellow developers was the Jobs and Employment Support Services (JESS).  http://www.jessinc.org/

Our goal was to build a Client Management Application in a .NET Framework in an n-tier architecture system. We modified and created 164 stored procedures, generated over 40 tables with foreign constraints using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Query File and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 in a Subversion repository environment.  Met some great developers and team leaders.

I would like to say thank you for letting me be part of the St. Louis Coders 4 Charities event.  Being among fellow developers and learning more than I expected to volunteer, is priceless.  I believe the only hard part for me, was the drive to and from Kansas City.  Other than that, it made all worth while to be part of something, especially when it envolves giving back to the community.

Thanks to everyone!

C4C Coders 4 Charities
Geeks giving back to the community in Kansas City
coders4charities

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Dates of Event: April 24th thru April 26, 2009
Where: Centriq Foss in Lenexa, KS

Dozens of Kansas City area web developers, designers, and business analysts engaged with local non-profit organizations for a weekend of "giving back" to their communities.

Coders 4 Charities has become an annual event bringing top-notch talent and organizations without luxurious tech budgets into the same building over a 48-hour weekend.

Visit coders4charities.org for all the details!

This video was produced on-site and edited during the weekend, then shown at the closing ceremony. Thanks to all the KCVideoCore.org crew who provided their own equipment and skills to making it great!

Centriq Training, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions (CPLS), is the premier information technology (I.T.) training company in Kansas City. Training IT professionals since 1989, we have more classrooms (18), more certified instructors (20+) and offer more instructor-led courses (over 70+ more) than any other training center in Kansas or Missouri. Each year we train over 3,000 corporate I.T. professionals from over 400 Kansas City area companies. We have trained over 1100 New I.T. Career program students since 2006. We are the only training company to offer both corporate training and career program training in Kansas City prior to 2009.
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Personal Comments:

I had a fun and exciting weekend. I spent over 34 hours this weekend with C4C - Coders 4 Charities.  It was great seeing so many developers, programmers and graphic designers come together as a unity to give back to the community. Thanks to everyone who participated especially those who feed us and those who provided us with great vocal sounds entertainment.  I would also like to thank all of the non-profit organizations for allowing us to participate in your cause for contributing the community.

The charities I contributed to were: