Pat’s Point of View

Over the weekend just gone, Sydney played host to FullCodePress, an epic battle between web design teams from Australia and New Zealand. The two teams had the task of designing and building a complete website for a non-profit client within 24 hours.

On Saturday, Jenn and I volunteered to help by taking photos and video. We saw the action between about hours 5 thru 9, so things were well underway and the different cultures of the two teams were quite evident; the Aussies were more noisy and chaotic, and the Kiwis more quiet and focused.

There wasn’t a lot of ‘action’ to be seen during the time we were there, as everyone had pretty much hunkered down and were getting on with work, and hadn’t yet reached the ’silly season’ that would surely come later on. So my strategy was to try and grab team members as they popped out of their respective rooms (for coffee or facilities breaks) and had little interviews. This seemed to work quite well, especially with the New Zealand team whom otherwise didn’t say much. And to their credit, their approach seems to have served them well.

Some of my footage ended up in Overview of the Kiwi Plan, Team Status Update, and Kiwi Coffee Break. Thanks must be directed to Lachlan Hunt who did a brilliant job of editing all the video and making some sense of what we shot!

Congratulations to both teams, they did a great job, made no less easier under those circumstances. Keep an eye out for round two, to be held in the not too distant future.

To see all the photos, check out www.flickr.com/photos/fullcodepress/. For all the video, visit www.youtube.com/fullcodepress/. And finally to see the results, visit aussie.fullcodepress.mbcomms.net.au and kiwi.fullcodepress.mbcomms.net.au.

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