•  If you want to play submit your name in the bowl
•  First time draw a target name at the designated time (right after Sat. lunch)
•  That is who you will have to infect.
•  Please do something to your tags to distinguish them as yours.
•  To infect a person you must successfully tag them and have them not notice
• You must document your kills: photographs or have witnesses.
•  Once you have successfully infected a person report that and draw a new target name.

Additional Rules: If contested judges will rule with the killed… but let’s be fair and honest.
and contestants cannot be infected while sleeping… That’s just rude.

Achievements

There will be special achievements awarded through out the remainder of the weekend.

• First Infection
• First Infected
• GiveCamp Infection of the weekend
• Most Infected
• Most Contagious
• Dinner Infection
• Breakfast Infection
• Infected Foot
• 7 in 1 (a.k.a. The Epidemic: 7 infections in 1hr)
• Survivor (not infected at all, but has infected at least 1)

Justin Russell: “Over the course of the 48 hours’ worth of work at New England GiveCamp, the team leaders for each project gather every few hours at a corner of the work floor. The meeting is simple; GiveCamp co-organizer Kelley Muir calls out the name of each of the 30 non-profits represented at the weekend, and the respective team leader lets the group know if there are any barriers they think may stop them from completing their project by Sunday afternoon. They also give a one-word status: green, yellow, or red.” – Read his full post.

Lisa Burris: “In this day and age sometimes we convince ourselves that the good in people has disappeared! Turn Back Time has helped me to believe that is NOT true!! Erik and I are camping out at ….. Erik and I are camping out at …..120 individuals volunteering their time to serve Non-Profit organizations through out New England. Believers by definition “accept something as true or real”…….I’ve decided to surround my self with believers….believers tend to be authentic and support other believers. They make the world a better place! Do you believe? If not find yourself something to believe in, it’ll change your life…… Jim, John, Zak and Erik Thank You for believing!!!” – See her blog.

I am attending my first New England Give Camp. I am donating my time and skill set to help non profits update, refresh or build from scratch their web presence. It brings me great joy to be surrounded by like minded people coming together to simply help their fellow man.

I have never done much in terms of charity before, excluding selling candy bars as a kid. I am not a runner, walker, tough mudder (cheers guys) and making cold calls for donations isn’t my strong suit either…. However what I eat, sleep and breath is code. Finally a chance to apply my skills and use my time to help others. Now that’s a cause I can get behind!

We were greeted with a bag of swag, filled with food and kept running by coffee. And all of these wonderful treats provided by our gracious hosts and sponsors. Day one has been fantastic! We heard from all the non profits in attendance and got broken down into our project groups. All of the non profits are incredibly grateful and excited to have so many people here to help them with their mission.

It’s amazing to be surrounded by so many talented like minded people. Tech conversations are abundant here, well maybe not right now most people are littered around our floor trying to catch some sleep before jumping back into their projects. This code monkey is getting back to developing!

Can’t wait to see what Day #2 brings!

-Brandon Henricks

Read his full blog post on his blog.

Follow his Stream-of-Consciousness Notes.

From Evelyn:  “Then we met the wonderful people from Covenant Shelter… ate dinner, learned more about them, and began coloring with Crayolas…  yes, coloring…” Read her full post on her blog.

2020 Vision Quest
Gene Ambeau
Marc Hewitt
Jim Caron

Alex’s Team Foundation
Rachel Morris
Jason LeVan
bryan phillips
Will Plourde
Dave St. Onge

Boston Women’s Fund
Christine Turnier
John Harris
John Patz
Chip Moore
Cindy Casella

Brookfield Craft Center
Alyissa Dzaugis
Molly Duggan
Marco Moreira
Joan Wortman (Linskey)
Maura Wilder
Bill Wilder

Catching Joy
Jeff Morris
Steven Word
Jennifer Morris
Jay Wazurkar

Children’s Charter, Emerge, Transition House
Sarah Cortes MS PMP CISA
Prateek Shokeen
Deanna Lohnes
Robert Callahan
carmine zinni
Shauna Gordon-McKeon

Covenant Shelter of New London
Phil Denoncourt
Dan Leonard
shawn lavoie
Evelyn Livant
Chris Haddad

Dover Community Trail
Albert Willis
Saurabh Moondhra
Ian Muir
Khem Veasna

Earthen Vessels (EV)
Adam W. Caron
David Seah
Ram Kelath

Future Chefs
Justin Sun
Justin Russell
Vamsi Gundlapalli

SponsorBar / If I Were President
Andrii Vasylevskyi
Rez Khan
Joseph Sniezek
Aimee Barciauskas

Jump Start
Colin Whooten
John Balboni
Jarred Suisman
Jan Lauwers
Chris Bullock

Kevin’s Community Center
Satyendra Sharma
Amanda Nar
Harsha Majety
Harish Upadhyayula

Latino Family Network
Marissa Martinez
Reiko Beach
Manoj Mathe

Maine Health Management Coalition Foundation
Conor Maguire
Rico dos Santos
Luis Santos
Alex Peng

Massachusetts Financial Education Collaborative
Paul Rakotoarisoa
Matthew Wood
Emily Brochu
Nitin Gupta

MathPOWER
Stephen Daukas
William Wade
Marcia MacInnis
Erik Peterson

McGregor Memorial EMS
Alex Levy
Han Chen
Sam Phillips
Brice Norton
Ed Sibbald
Ishtiaq Syed

Morrill Memorial Library
Ben Wardwell
Seng Ung
nate bates

New Hampshire Coalition to End Homelessness (FIT)
Sashidhar Kokku
Ryan Sutton
Michele Alexander

Respond, Inc.
George Babey
David Davis
Justin Babey
Amanda Cheung

Rock and Roll Library
Chris Penland
Timothy Allen
rohini amuloju
Erik Peterson

Spare Change News
Anand Hudda
Matthew Stanton
Niki Brown
Anand Hudda
Erik Peterson
Nathaniel Hoag

The Esplanade Association
Doug Vanderweide
Christina Yung
Jason Dufour
Mark Smith

The Refuge of Hope, Inc.
HaWook Song
Shawn Sippel
Brandon Henricks
.Robin Larson
Meg Broughton

This Star Won’t Go Out
Usha Guduri
Nick Levesque

Turn Back Time
Jim Reevior
Zack Pike
John Refior
Erick Hitter

Project Managers (almost as rare as the elusive Designer unicorn), enable GiveCamp programs to provide for the sheer number of non-profits they do with so few people, in such a short time. We are the facilitators that keep projects focused and moving, with responsibilities to both the non-profit side and the volunteer coders.

Translation
To begin with, we are the interpreters. Non-profits rarely have the luxury of having full time tech people on staff and as a result, may not have anyone tech knowledgeable at GiveCamp. Conversely, not all tech geeks can speak human!

Priority one is to do a good job of translating what they’re asking for into tangibles for your dev team. This may mean anything from sitting down with colored pencils and paper to mock up a web page with your Non-Profit representative, to creating a written Project Dictionary for both the dev team and the end users. We tech types use far too many acronyms that mean nothing to non-techs. Don’t assume that just saying “a CMS is a Content Management System” will do the trick. Judge the end users’ level of technical understanding and moderate it accordingly, perhaps adding “that’s the tool we’re setting up to allow you and your people to be able to edit event listings, add new web pages, and generally have control over any information your website shows to the public.” The translation goes both ways – you may have to translate “We want it to handle our widget giveaway program” to “Create an inventory management and tracking system which stores the following data and limits recipients to X widgets per month.”

Be Aware of Time Constraints
Before getting started (ideally through emails to your team members), check what people’s schedules are for the weekend. Some of your team may be staying off site, others may have plans that take them away mid-day, or may be leaving early. Plan your resource usage accordingly, including time to transition work to someone else if it’s not complete. Don’t forget to include the non-profit team members in this planning – you may need their input for critical aspects of the task.

Balance Skillsets with Interests
You may have multiple people on a team who can do the same kind of work – make sure that each person is not only working well for the project, making the most of their skills, but also that they are doing things they enjoy. Person A may be slightly slower at creating a file reader than Person B, but Person A may have been looking forward to the challenge and may get more out of it. If the file reader creation would hold up the rest of the project, perhaps A and B can work on it together, but if its delay just means it gets incorporated at a later stage, put Person B on tasks more suited to challenge someone who’s already done fifty file reader projects. Make use of your non-profit representatives, too – even if they aren’t technically savvy, they can do data entry/cleanup, they can answer questions regarding style and feel of the organization, and they can get in touch with other people in their organization if the answers aren’t immediately to hand.

Challenge!
Most of us are here because we want to help give back to the community and don’t always have the luxury of a longer stretch of time to do so. Working at GiveCamp pace is a kind of 48 hour long adrenaline rush, too. That we come out the other side having accomplished amazing things for an appreciative group of people provides a high unlike any we’ll get at everyday work.

As PMs at GiveCamp, we need to make sure we help our teams make the most of that feeling – we set the bar high enough that it’s a stretch, but not so high that failure is an option. (In fact, if we’re on the path to failure by mid-day Saturday, we need to regroup with the facilitators to get additional resources or redirect the project.)

One of the best ways to create a challenge environment is to split your project’s requirements up into the “must haves” list and the “wouldn’t it be nice” wish list items. Make sure everyone’s aware of both lists, posting them boldly in your work area, but assign the must haves, first. As team members complete their portions of that list, have them take ownership of a wish list item and fulfill it.

As items are completed on either list, don’t erase them – just cross through them. That way, anyone caught up in the intensity of their own work can, at a glance, see how the project’s doing. It also creates a friendly, competitive environment to keep up with your teammates’ pace. Vital to the challenge is that if you run through all must haves and are well on your way to your wish list items, add to it!

Don’t Micro Manage
As much as you have responsibility to the Non-Profit Client, you also have responsibilities towards your team. Just as you have talents as a PM, and may also have tech talents, they bring a wide array of experiences and skill levels to the table, too. Listen. Provide challenges and allow your people to rise to them by finding the solutions they are capable of in the time available. Suggest, don’t require. If you have experience, you may want to share how you achieved a similar outcome, and perhaps give code guidance if they want it, but the development crew needs chances to shine, too. You don’t have to do it all.

Do Facilitate
Don’t let your team get interrupted by distractions or sidebars – you should be the team’s gofer. If a developer pops his or her head up from a problem and says “I can’t do this until we know the IP address of their website!” then you, not the developer, should be the one chasing that down. Let your team know that they can ask you for things so they can go back to the hard work of high speed development.

Do Touch Base
Plan on periodic “check-ins” with your team to ensure the project is still on point and on target, time wise. Review the elements each person is responsible for and how they’re progressing. Let people show off their achievements. While it’s a team effort, your people need credit for their hard work. For incomplete items, ask if anyone needs additional resource. Determine how to fulfill the needs (whether it’s teaming up two people or grabbing a specialist who’s free from another team).

Encourage Real Breaks
While the time pressure is intense at GiveCamp, it’s important to remember that we need to let loose and give ourselves perspective. By late evening, Saturday, our team was wound up pretty tightly, hunched over computers, necks aching, eyes bloodshot…we decided to go for a brief walk around MIT. One member of the team knew the area well and took us on a tour and, half an hour of fresh air later, we came back revitalized and ready for another long night of coding.

Most Importantly – Plan for Handoff
You may have the most perfect team and the most amazing results at the end of 48 hours, but if your GiveCamp recipient can’t take the next steps and actually use it, the time has been wasted and the team will feel like failures. From moment one, plan for your handoff – what are the takeaways you’ll provide the customer? Is it a DVD with files? A live website? Who needs to know what to keep things moving, come Monday? What passwords will they need?

You can help transition the project back to your client by keeping an ongoing file of these items as you go. If the team develops a custom tool, make sure screen shots of the relevant windows are taken and incorporated into the documentation with at least rudimentary (bullet point) how-to notes. Be sure to include a list of languages and/or tools in which their product has been developed. This will help them find additional development where necessary. Spend an hour or so towards the end of day two working with the team to make sure nothing’s been forgotten. All these steps lead to a fun, albeit intense, weekend with talented colleagues, and improve the likelihood of project success once the client is back home without GiveCamp support.

Everyone is invited to attend – including the non-profit representatives. The content will be geeky at times, but even non-technical folks should get an idea of the types of capabilities and functions these companies can provide to extend your NPO’s reach and effectiveness. For the developers and designers amongst the group, this content is something you’ll be able to leverage far beyond GiveCamp, and if you have colleagues or friends that aren’t at GiveCamp and whom you think would be interested, please feel free to invite them as well.

Wed. May 2nd, 7 p.m. http://justin.tv/jonmarkgo	Twilio is the leading telephony platform for developers to extend and expand their applications with Voice and SMS communications. Our focus for this workshop will be to get an overview of the basic features and functionality of the Twilio platform; send, receive, and respond to SMS messages; place, receive, and respond to phone calls; and use Twilio Client to use your browser to place and receive phone calls. Presenter: Jon Gottfried, Developer Evangelist, Twilio
Thurs. May 3rd, 7 p.m. Register here	What are APIs? Why you should be interested and why they should be every developer’s best friend. Developers will also get a taste of API Explorer – an interactive documentation system designed to learn and explore RESTful APIs like Klout, USA TODAY, Rovi, Whit.li, New York Times and many more.Mashery is the world leader in API technology and services helping over 150 companies manage their APIs. Presenter: Amit Jotwani, Developer Advocate & Front-end Developer at Mashery

If you were on the waitlist, you should have received an automated e-mail from EventBrite as well as an e-mail directly from NEGiveCamp@hotmail.com.   It is VERY important that you follow the instructions in that latter e-mail, since we do need additional information from you now that you are confirmed.  The information that’s populated by default is very likely NOT correct for you, so the sooner you can reconfirm the better for planning.

For all volunteers: please, please do let us know if you can no longer attend.  We are putting together team assignments, so the more accurate we are with attendance the smoother the process and more succssful the projects.

Look for additional updates over the next few days via your e-mail, blog post, and Twitter as we get closer to the event.