The Second Coming – Overnight Website Challenge

The Nerdery is abuzz over the second coming of Sierra Bravo’s Overnight Website Challenge. Feeling it?

Last week at Minnedemo, we released the hounds. Word is out in the web development community. The nonprofit world is about to overhear us using the F-word again (free, free, free). Nonprofits and development teams will vie for the rare opportunity to become fast friends pulling an all-nighter.

Know a good Minnesota nonprofit with a bad website? Make their day. Make them aware of the long day that begins the morning of February 28, and ends March 1 with a new-and-improved website.

I’ve been chatting up some of last year’s nonprofits on camera lately and it’s been a real trip down selective memory lane. Watch their videos for lingering evidence of a long weekend well spent.

Collectively, we tend to gloss over the deadbeat feeling of choosing coffee over sleep in that eleventh hour (actually, two eleventh hours).

All told, I consider the Overnight Website Challenge to be our finest hour – all 24 of them. I propose a logistically-challenged group hug for all involved last year, and all considering it this time around. Withdrawn. For now.

Anyway, yeah, I’m feeling it. And as Tom Waits once (sort of) sang to me, “If there’s one thing you can’t lose, it’s that feel.”

Life is short. Have a long day. Tell me about yours, and start feeling it again at www.overnightwebsitechallenge.com.