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CeBIT: NZ wins FullCodePress Competition

13 May 2009

Listen and download: MP3

Haydn Thomsen from the NZ “Codeblacks” web development team, accepting their prize for their winning website.

The New Zealand team has beaten Australia in the second FullCodePress competition at CeBIT Australia 2009.  They built a fully functional website in under 24 hours for the Rainbow Youth, a not-for-profit organisation based in Auckland. I had a chance to speak with the team, representatives from Rainbow Youth and also one of the NZ organizers Mike Brown. You can listen to with the MP3 link at the top of this story.

The best thing is that the Disability Discrimination Legal Centre in NSW also get to keep the website built for them by the Australian team. It will go online soon but you can have a look at it for a short time here and also at the winning build for Rainbow Youth.  And the competition was documented online at FullCodePress.com