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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.componentart.com/BLOGS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Milena Braticevic</title><link>http://www.componentart.com/BLOGS/milena/default.aspx</link><description>ComponentArt in the Community</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Debug Build: 61019.2)</generator><item><title>ComponentArt Sponsors the 'We Are Microsoft' Charity Challenge Weekend</title><link>http://www.componentart.com/BLOGS/milena/archive/2008/01/21/componentart-sponsors-the-we-are-microsoft-charity-challenge-weekend.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:18:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">c19e7ad3-6f2a-44cb-a9a2-6a12e252d531:13889</guid><dc:creator>Milena</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.componentart.com/BLOGS/milena/comments/13889.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.componentart.com/BLOGS/milena/commentrss.aspx?PostID=13889</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;We are proud to have been a sponsor for the &lt;em&gt;We&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt; Are Microsoft - Charity Challenge&lt;/em&gt; event this past weekend.&amp;nbsp;It was a software development&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;competition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for a very good cause. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;This 3-day event matched developers with charity organizations, in order to help develop applications for them. At the end of the 3 days, all of the participants were to vote and proclaim winners&amp;nbsp;&amp;#39;champion coders&amp;#39;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;On Friday, we were able to read about one of the charity organizations &lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;helped by Microsoft&amp;#39;s Charity Challenge &lt;/span&gt;event in the Dallas Morning News.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;The &lt;em&gt;North Dallas Shared Ministries&amp;rsquo; Medical Clinic&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;a charity that has moved beyond food and financial assistance to also offer medical services to the people of the area who are without medical insurance. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;You can read the full article and find out how this organization helps the community here:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/011808dnmetmedcharity.224ad77.html"&gt;http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/011808dnmetmedcharity.224ad77.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;Knowing that our products are being used to help build organizations that will further help people through charity work truly inspires our involvement&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"&gt;The Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"&gt;is being organized by the Microsoft Developer&amp;#39;s Guidance Council (DGC) for the South Central Region of Microsoft, and is run by volunteers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"&gt;For more information on the &lt;em&gt;We Are Microsoft - Charity Challenge Weekend&lt;/em&gt; you can visit &lt;a href="http://www.wearemicrosoft.com/"&gt;&lt;font color="#800080"&gt;www.wearemicrosoft.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We would love to hear from you if you&amp;nbsp;were involved in this event in any way, or if you are working on similar projects in your community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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