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Codaroos’ Elevator Pitch

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:09:11 +0000

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Hi, I’m Kylie Liggins. I’m the project manager for Team Australia, and here’s my elevator pitch for Lions Hearing Dogs.

Essentially it’s a website to build awareness — to build awareness for people who are hearing-impaired, and to provide them with information on how they can apply for a hearing dog to support them, and the benefits for the independence, the security, and the confidence that comes from having that hearing dog.

It’s also to build some public awareness, and how it’s a benefit to society.

That’s my pitch. Thanks!

Team USA’s Elevator Pitch

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:22:45 +0000

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Hi, I’m Jennifer Bove from Team USA, and this is my elevator pitch.

So victoriahouse.org.nz will describe the services of the Timaru Mental Health Support Trust, and the facility that they have in Timaru. It will have resources for their clients, and information for anyone interested in mental health resources and reference material … and that’s what we’ve got!

A comparison of the 2010 FullCodePress teams

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:17:56 +0000

SitePoint’s Matthew Magain gives his take on how the three FullCodePress teams are shaping up.

At the six-hour mark, the teams are well and truly ensconced in discussion, planning, wire-framing, and the first hints of coded designs are appearing on the live sites, which you can access at any stage throughout the contest.

The coveted FullCodePress
trophy, donated by SitePoint

As in previous years, SitePoint is one of the sponsors. SitePoint’s community manager, Sarah Taylor, is present at the Wellington Town Hall, along with yours truly, and the excitement in the venue is almost tangible—there is so much talent working together in these rooms, so there are big expectations for what kind of sites these three teams will be able to produce.

Here’s a brief rundown of each of the teams.

Team Australia

Team name: Codaroos
Members: Kylie Liggins, James Mansfield, Lachlan Donald, Adam Schilling, Bjarni Wark, Robyn Diamond
Client: Lions Hearing Dogs of Adelaide
Site URL: http://www.fcpaus.netspace.co.nz/

Hourly screenshots

The Australian team are determined to learn from previous years’ mistakes. Regular readers of the SitePoint blog may recognise some of the team members (James and Lachlan are both employees of 99designs, and Adam is a former employee). In addition to the obvious advantage that many of the team have worked together, they’ve spent a good amount of time getting to know each other and preparing their infrastructure and approach well in advance. Coming into the competition the team were relaxed and quietly confident, but the introduction of a team nickname, the Codaroos, shows just how seriously they are taking this competition.

Lachlan Donald, the team’s developer, has made the bold move of putting together a public GitHub repository, so anyone interested in monitoring the log of changes to the site’s code base can follow along.

Team USA

Team name: Team USA
Members: Jennifer Bove, Jason Santa Maria, Liz Danzico, Dan Mall, Karen McGrane, John Ford
Client: Timaru Mental Health Support Trust
Site URL: http://www.fcpusa.netspace.co.nz/

Hourly screenshots

The sense of national pride with Team USA is very strong, with team members consistently declining invitations for a quiet beer at the pub in the lead-up to the event in favour of “going home to sleep.” It’s possible that the team is very conscious of not repeating the 1988 men’s basketball Dream Team’s debut Olympic efforts (despite the team containing a superstar line-up, they came home with a bronze medal). It’s also possible that the team may have cottoned on to the Australians’ rumoured plans to sabotage their game by plying them full of large amounts of potent alcohol.

While appearing to be very focussed, there is a cheeky sense of confidence evident in the team’s approach, with early screenshots displaying a gaudy colour scheme and a scrolling marquee! Given Team USA’s designer, Jason Santa Maria, delivered a riveting presentation at Webstock Mini on Thursday night about typographic principles, there are rumours flying that Santa Maria’s design skills may in fact not be up to the challenge under such intense pressure.

Team New Zealand

Team name: Code Blacks
Members: Amanda Wood, Lulu Pachuau, Matthew Buchanan, Mike Harding, Sam Minnée, Hadyn Green
Client: Te Hua Rangatahi Trust (assisting troubled and disadvantaged youth)
Site URL: http://www.fcpnzl.netspace.co.nz/

Hourly screenshots

The Code Blacks have the most to lose with this year’s competition. Having won back-to-back premierships, these kiwi internerds are well aware of the expectations that their nation has placed upon them. Of the three teams, the Code Blacks are the using the least amount of organisation materials, such as post-it notes, butcher paper and other tools. They also seem to be the quietest of the three teams, working mostly in silence on most occasions that I’ve popped my head in the door.

That said, the team does have the home-ground advantage, and are known to be taking advice from one of last years’ victorious Code Blacks, the talented Darren Wood (read SitePoint’s interview with Darren from last year). And press coverage in national media has ensured that even New Zealand’s non-geeky residents are well aware of the team’s goals to create the first ever three-peat in FullCodePress history.

Who will be victorious? Follow along live as the websites as they are built and decide for yourself.

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Republished with permission from sitepoint.com

Video: interview with all team members

Russ Weakley — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:31:27 +0000

Lachlan Hunt interviews all team members in his usual blunt and intimidating fashion

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Screenshots: 13 May 09, 05:25

Ajay Ranipeta — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:41:19 +0000

As of 5:25am, not much has changed with either teams test sites. 2.5 hours for the exhibitors to pop in, and 3.5 for general public. How are they going to cope with the hoards of people bugging them?

FCP NZ Test Site 2009-05-12T05.25

FCP AU Test Site 2009-05-12T05.25

Video: Team Australia talk structure

Ajay Ranipeta — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:20:01 +0000

Lachlan talks to Rhonda Prentice, content editor, and Patrick Kennedy, user experience guru, about site structure for their project. Team AU using post-it notes for various parts of the site. Wonder if it helps if they use different colours for various parts of the site.

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Video: Code Blacks’ Nick and Kate

Ajay Ranipeta — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:11:42 +0000

Nick Bowmast and Kate Smith talk to Ajay about their roles with the project and the interaction of each role for the project. As mentioned earlier, Team NZ have been putting up their design on the test site a lot earlier than Team AU.

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Video: Aussie Design Perspective

Ajay Ranipeta — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:00:17 +0000

Alexi Paschalidis, Team Australia’s design guy, talks about his idea behind Full Code Press and the charity for the team. This interview was early on at the start of the event, so let’s see how things have progress at the end.

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Video: A brief chat with Courtney

Ajay Ranipeta — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:26:07 +0000

Ajay has a brief chat with Courtney Johnston, Team New Zealand’s content writer about what she is upto. She is using the very basic Notepad to save her content. Guess it is a good idea?

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Screenshots: 13-05-09-02:18

Ajay Ranipeta — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:42:59 +0000

It’s 2:18AM and we wanted to see, visually, what the teams have done in regards to the development site so far.

Team New Zealand at 13-05-09-02:18

Looking at the status so far, it looks like Team NZ are uploading UI as they see fit. The UI is looking good so far, IMHO, and talking to the content writer, she seems to have loads of data coming in. Wonder if she is waiting for the dev guys to provide an input method for her. To be seen.

Team Australia at 13-05-09-02:18

Team AU’s site at first glance seems to be “yet another Wordpress site”. Looking thru’ it, the content seems to be there. The UI, is the designer still working on the version or have they decided?

More updates to follow.