Archive for July, 2007

Australian FullCodePress team captain’s choice

The Australian team has picked it’s captains choice and would like to welcome on board JEFF LOWDER -who brings a wide range of skill sets that will fit in nicely around other team members.

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The Australian and New Zealand teams

The wait is finally over!

The following names from both teams were drawn from a hat*:

The Australian team:

  • Marla Mitelman - Project manager
  • Ruth Ellison - User experience /IA
  • Sarah Peeke - Designer
  • David McDonald - HTML/CSS coder
  • Rex Chung - Programmer
  • Melissa Cater - Writer

The NZ Team:

  • Peter Johnston (Sorted) - Writer
  • Jeffrey Wegesin (Xero) - HTML/CSS
  • Mark Rickerby (Coretxt) - Programmer
  • Zef Fugaz (Provoke) - UX/IA
  • Steve Dennis (Enlighten) - Designer
  • Thomas Scovell (Shift) - Project Manager

Stay tuned for the announcement of the Captain’s Choice position, to be announced next Friday.

* In an effort to be as transparent as possible, please note that a hat was not actually used for either team. they were actually an urn and a rather a large trophy shaped receptacle.

Welcoming Red Square and SitePoint!

We have two new sponsors joining the FullCodePress party - Red Square and SitePoint!

Red Square

Red Square

Founded in 1995 by Tony Redhead and Kelly Burke, Red Square delivers flexible, stable and scalable solutions for their clients, ensuring that these solutions are designed specifically to ensure a positive user experience. Red Square’s solutions include strategy, innovative design and creative thinking, programming Web site hosting and content management systems.

SitePoint

Sitepoint

SitePoint specializes in publishing fun, practical, and easy-to-understand content for web professionals. Its popular online magazine, blogs, newsletters, and print books teach best practices to web developers and designers worldwide.

SitePoint also runs the #1 Marketplace on the Web for buying and selling web sites, blogs, and forums.

Adobe to sponsor the Australian FullCodePress team

Adobe has just stepped forward to sponsor the Australian FullCodePress team. The Australian team can now be flown in from anywhere in the country, and live in the lap of luxury… while they work 24 hours straight. Welcome on board, Adobe!

adobe

Finalists for the Australian team

The Australian selection panel have selected the following finalists for the Australian FullCodePress team - also from a number of impressive candidates. Again, in no particular order:

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Finalists for the New Zealand team

After much deliberation, the New zealand selection panel have selected the following finalists for the NZ FullCodePress team from a number of impressive candidates (in no particular order)

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