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[Post by Lloyd Nimetz  --  Welcome, Lloyd!]

We’re all at the Saturday morning kickoff of SnapCampSF. There was the requisite coffee and bagels, intros for new people like me, and then Dave, Rich and Adam set the foundation for a productive weekend. The table is full of rockstar coders and other committed do-gooders photographed below.  

We started with some the basics like what is this all about, and what are we doing this weekend? The big goal is… “live data by the end of the weekend.” It’s written on the white board and going to be hovering over everybody for the rest of the weekend. It’s an ambitious goal but a lot of the code base is already in there so the group is up to the challenge.

The new back-end is being rewritten in Scala Lift and conveniently David Pollack is here with us; he wrote the book on it!

Rich and I are the only non-coders, but we’re finding ways to contribute within our skill sets like UX, UI and, being a future distribution partner… general ‘customer’ feedback. 

So you know who the heck is writing this: I’m the founder of Blitz Bazaar. Like SnapImpact, we are a distribution provider and will be relying on AFG data. Blitz Bazaar is a new enterprise software start-up that will layer a whole bunch of engaging social gaming and networking UI on top of All for Good’s social actions. It is designed for bounded communities like universities, schools and corporations that want to spice up their community service programs. 

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