FullCodePress 2010: Go Aussies!

Well my Webstock Mini talk is out the way, and now I’m spending my time as a volunteer/reporter/fly-on-the-wall for the third ever FullCodePress event here in Wellington, New Zealand.

At a few minutes after midnight (local time), we’re past the half-way point and I can confirm that Team Australia (aka the Codaroos) are looking very together and have a great vibe going on. There was big drama a couple of hours ago when the team hit server issues, resulting in all teams getting an extension of one hour to the original deadline — a first ever!

There is a huge amount of support for the team, with photos popping up all over the internet of supporters who are wishing them well in their quest to wrestle Olympic gold from the CodeBlacks and Team USA.

You can follow the progress of Team Australia and all of the FullCodePress teams online via Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and on the official FullCodePress website.

You can find some great interviews with the team (James, James & Bjarni, Robyn) and you can also watch and compare screenshots of each team’s sites as they evolve (The Aussies have chosen to use github to publish their site, so you can even watch their codebase evolve as well, which is just plain awesome).

On behalf of the rest of Australia, let me say, Codaroos, that the hopes of a nation are riding on your shoulders. We wish you all the very best, and here’s to hoping you kick some Kiwi and Yankee butt!

Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!

Tags: codaroos, fullcodepress

posted: 19.06. 2010, 22:21 (1)