Northwest Charity Flex Jam

2007 Event Completed!

Application developed can be found HERE

Credits

Organizer and Project Management:

Ali Daniali from TransACT Communications

Mentors and Advanced Development:

Patrick Keating from Bluefire Productions
Michael Labriola from Digital Primates
Mike Nimer from TapperNimer Associates
Jeff Tapper from TapperNimer Associates
Rob Rusher from Effective UI

Developers:

Josh Barber
Merritt Chapman from TransACT Communications
Dusty Jewett
Mike Brophy
Renaun Erickson from Adobe
Ariel Jakobovits
Ryan Campbell
Roberto Rodriguez
Louie Penaflor
Andrew Mauer
L Jay Adams
Kaleb Pederson
Dawson Valdes
Andrew Laffoon
Eric Ko
Jun Heider
Bennett Cheung
Danny Nip
Zhiqiang Yang
Arnold Young
Warren Poon
Dan Zeitman
Ed Herrmann
Josh Berling
Bill Allan
Nathan Wheeler
Ben Wheeler
Shawn Goss
Jeremy Stucki
Marty Mickelson from Adobe
Christopher Keeler

Information below for Reference Only

When:
The NW Charity Flex Jam will occur in an approximately 69 Hour time span starting Sunday, August 12, 2007 and will go to the afternoon of August 15, 2007. The intent is to complete the project 100% in this amount of time!

Where:
The venue which this event will be held at is the 360 Flex Conference at the Red Lion Hotel in Seattle (Directions). We will be primarily headquartered in the Presidential Suite of the hotel on the 5th Floor. Within this area we will have wireless Internet, a sign-up and help desk. The good news is you don't have to be in the room to do the work. You can grab your tasks, go back to your room (if visiting from out of town), your home, or sit in Pike Market and code away.

What:
We will be building Northwest Harvest a Virtual Food Drive application using Flex. All the specifics are detailed in documents linked below. If you have questions please come to the help desk at the event headquarters at the Red Lion Hotel.

The application will be deployed in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environement, with Adobe Coldfusion 8 and Microsoft SQL 2005.

Who:
Although this event is offered primarily to 360 Flex conference attendees, if you don't plan on attending the conference you can still join us. You just won't be allowed on the 3rd Floor where all the conference events are happening. We recommend that you register for the conference however.

In terms of skills we will need during the event. Flex, Flash and Coldfusion development. Graphics development skills using Photoshop or Fireworks will also come in handy.

Prizes:
Judging for prizes will be done by calculating the number of task points accumulated by an individual. Only tasks completed and judged to be done in an acceptable way will earn task points.

Once you come to the event room, you will have the opportunity to review tasks that you might want to take on. Some tasks may be easy others may be more difficult. Task points will be clearly displayed with the task item and are assigned by importance and difficulty level.

All task points will be calculated by 3PM August 15, 2007. And prizes will be awarded accordingly to top performers. You do not have to be present to win (but are encouraged to come to the prize giveaway event at 4PM August 15, 2007).

Prizes include:
(1) XBOX 360 Elite Consol System
(1) Apple Video iPod 30G
(4) Nintendo DS Lites
(2) XBOX 360 consol games
(1) Adobe CS3 Creative Suite
(1) Adobe FlexBuilder 2
(2) Flex Books
(2) Adobe Backpacks

Important documents to get started:
Scope Document (PDF Link)
Block Flow Diagrams 1 2 3 (PDF Link)

SVN Information:

To download the current code please use the following URL:
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Please checkout from within FlexBuilder (or Eclipse).

To commit you will need a username and password which you should have gotten when you registered.

Preparation:
Make sure you have the following with you when you attend the Flex Jam:
1. Laptop able to compile Flex (Flexbuilder 2, Eclipse with Flex Plug-in or Flex SDK)
2. Power adapter for your laptop
3. Any other tools you might need to help you with your development.

License

The source code for the Virtual Donation Drive Application will be available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The MPL will allow full and free access to the source code, allowing developers to download, extend, and contribute to the source code for the Virtual Donation Drive Application.

Mozilla Public License FAQ: http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/mpl-faq.html

The annotated Mozilla Public License (explained in layman’s terms) http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1-annotated.html