Irish registrar and hosting company Blacknight has announced its sponsorship of 24 The Web , a 24 hour web design challenge for charity. 24 The Web, which is in its second year, takes place during design week 2011 on the weekend of October 29-30 in Dublin, Ireland.
24 The Web is staffed by teams of volunteers, each donating 24 consecutive hours to building complete websites for non-profit organisations. The teams are made up of professional programmers, content writers, designers, IA/UX, project managers, HTML/CSS coders, as well as a wildcard (someone with any helpful skills not covered by the other categories). A bit like a university all-nighter, the teams work together to complete as many websites as they can in the allotted window of time.
Blacknight, which is philanthropically active with a variety of charities, has donated hosting and support services to the event. Michele Neylon of Blacknight says, “We love the idea of teams of talented professionals creating interesting, high-functioning websites for organisations that don’t otherwise have the resources to produce them. We hope that 24 The Web inspires other Internet professionals to donate spare time and resources to helping charities and non-profit organisations in their local areas get online.”

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Supporters can donate food and drink for the 25 participants as well as tables, chairs, space heaters and emergency backup Internet dongles. Sponsors are rewarded with blog posts during the event, a logo and link on this site as well as tweets and photos during the event from participants.
Founder and organiser Stewart Curry says, “We are incredibly grateful for the support Blacknight has given this event. 24 The Web is not only a great help for the charities selected for the event but it is also a great way for people who work in the web industry to meet colleagues they tweet with every day. Hopefully it will also put a spotlight on the talents and skills involved in creating an effective, well- built and well-designed website.”
The 2011, 24 The Web teams and charities have been chosen so please visit http://24theweb.com/2011 and http://www.blacknight.com for updates as the event draws near.

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