Everyone in the auditorium knew when she stood up that this was going to be an interesting weekend. Sister Mary, dressed in a stark white Habit, stood out from the crowd of faded jeans, Converse low-tops and silk screened Tee shirts with ironic catch phrases like some lost Lawrence Welk fan at a Neko Case concert. But what she told the audience, how passionately she expressed her excitement for what was in essence just a new website, was nothing new by then. They had heard the same that night from a dozen other local charities and non-profits participating in GiveCamp 2009. Each charity started the weekend thanking the programmers and developers and designers for donating the next 48 hours of their lives to creating something for their own personal cause. So unaccustomed to this kind of appreciation for their unique gifts in this world, the audience of software and computer experts were overwhelmed to tears more than once. At least I was overwhelmed to tears at the opening ceremony, cresting at the pique of the emotional wave with Sister Mary shouting thanks to God that ‘The Geeks Are Coming!’
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