Kudos to Mrk Laudon from the City of Surrey B.C for scoring a win in the recently held Code Your Art Out competition put on by Microsoft. This past week-end the Code Your Art Out Finale was held at the BizMedia Rooftop in downtown Toronto and was packed with developers, designers, people who are passionate about non-profits, other Code Your Art Out contestants, the finalists, and their close friends and family. Winners and special mentions have been provided on the Dev Pulse Blog
Laudon scored the $10,000 prize with his Save the Rain app (http://www.save-the-rain.com/world-bank/), a Water Productivity Calculator. Technologies Used include: Windows Azure, Google Maps, ESRI’s ArcGIS API for JavaScript, Hosted ArcGIS Server Web Mapping Service. About the app… The Save the Rain Water Productivity Calculator utilizes open data sources to actually make a difference in the world. This creative app strives to deliver a tool for developing worlds and areas suffering from water shortage. This original app also provides an avenue to raise awareness of how high a value rain water can have in the production of crops/hunger resolution. The application is easy to use, and, requires no training. The app determines how much rain you receive in a year and calculates your rainfall savings potential.
Congrats MArk. See more in this blog post and see also http://www.save-the-rain.com/world-bank/
See more about Code Your Art Out HERE
You can Follow MArk on Twitter @MapsRus
