Tue 12 May 2009 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback View at NDHA
LGBT young people's charity Rainbow Youth was this morning announced the recipient of a brand new website thanks to international web design competition FullCodePress, but the twist is that the site must be built from scratch within 24 hours. In the early hours of this morning, two representatives from Rainbow Youth were secretly flown to Sydney to assist with the development of the website. The contest started at 1pm today and must be completed by 1pm tomorrow. The Sydney-based competition puts a New Zealand team of six professional web developers against their Australian counterparts. They are tasked with building an entire website for a non-profit charity in just 24 hours. At the end of the build, the charities get to keep and use their website for free. To ensure that the teams didn't get a head start, the identities of the charities were kept secret until the Trans-Tasman battle commenced today at 1pm in Sydney. Rainbow Youth was named as the one of the two lucky charities, along with New South Wales Disability Discrimination Legal Centre from Australia. "We are absolutely thrilled to be involved with FullCodePress this year," says Rainbow Youth's Executive Director Thomas Hamilton. "Building our online presence will open many new opportunities for us and we're really looking forward to seeing the final result. What this competition will offer youth is access to information and support outside of the greater Auckland area." FullCodePress organiser Natasha Hall says the competition could well be dubbed 'the geek olympics'. "It helps us give back to deserving charities," she explains. "We were really impressed with the work Rainbow Youth does and they seemed like a natural fit for the competition." Updates throughout the 24 hour competition can be followed through Rainbow Youth's Twitter feed, shown on its existing website.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News Staff
First published: Tuesday, 12th May 2009 - 3:42pm