WordCamp Albuquerque

You all made it very difficult to only choose three organizations for our upcoming WordCamp Hackathon. In the next week we will be matching WordPress teams with organizations.

The WordCamp Committee has selected the following submissions for the Inaugural WordCamp Hackathon:

1. Sky Garden Urban Farm Market
   Fresh local food store opening in downtown by October 1. Our storefront space a few steps from Central Ave., at 311 Gold St., will carry a rotating selection of New Mexico-grown produce, locally prepared lunches and dinners to go (expanding to include vegan and gluten free options), and a few staples to help to help meet the growing daily food needs of downtowners.
2. Fairfield Farm & Market – A Farmer’s Cooperative
   Fairfield Farm & Market is a farmer cooperative that not only strives for land stewardship—such as helping revive the nostalgic King Orchard brand of apples—but equally believes in the stewardship of letting farmers be farmers. With multiple levels of agriculture services from seedling to sales, Fairfield Farm & Market works with producers through market or partnership packages to get their products to the local community. Fairfield Farm & Market is a woman-owned cooperative committed to producers and the customers they serve in providing the best quality products in a streamlined support and supply chain model. After all, we are farmers, too.
3. Cathryn McGill Productions
   I am a local performing artist–I call myself a cultural griot.  A griot in the West African tradition is a musician, an orator and aunifier.  I believe that I am all of those things.  Since arriving in New Mexico in 1984, I have used not only to give people pleasure and entertainment, but also as a means for invoking civic dialogue around important social subjects.  While working at the Rape Crisis Center, I started an annual benefit called the SAVI Fair (loosely fashioned after the Lilith Fair) and organized and produced a fundraiser that used music, local talent and the stories of survivors of rape to raise money.  I worked for 10 years for the National Dance Institute as the “voice” of all of their end of year fundraising shows throughout the state.

We will be in touch with Hackathon participants in the coming week to coordinate the next steps in this process.

If you want to participate in the Hackathon, it’s not too late. Let us know by commenting below and we’ll add you to the list.

Hackathon takes place on Friday night at the Holiday Inn at 6 pm. More info here. [map]

What’s a hackathon? A hackathon is a gathering of programmers, developers, designers, and in this case WordPress users and bloggers to collaboratively work on a project over a very short period of time that will benefit the community.

The WordPress community in Albuquerque is such a great group of individuals and businesses, we’re taking a few hours at WordCamp Albuquerque to give back to the community at large. We’ll be using our skills as designers, developers, writers, publishers and just regular old WordPress users to help an individual or business in need.

Hackathons have been held at many WordCamps worldwide, and since we didn’t have one last year, this year we’re going to take the idea and give it our own special Albuquerque flavor. With the invaluable help of ABQSprout and New Mexico Tech Council, we’re taking the opportunity to use the resources we have at our fingertips (that’s you) to create a website (or two or three) for a worthy startup or nonprofit organization. The New Mexico community is invited to submit their project for consideration.

Come join us and contribute your publisher, designer, developer skills to this event. You’ll be glad you did. Register for WordCamp here and express your interest in participating in the Hackathon during registration.