Interns on the way, working on first contest and other stuff

I am feeling the pressure of a January release and it is only September!!

Lots of interesting things going on this week. Let me hit on a couple of big ones.

• The Interns are coming. We have three interns starting next week. Two will be working on the website and one on marketing. And we have a contractor starting next week who will also be working on the site. This is a HUGE increase in resources. It is no longer just Stan:) We had to take care of lots of details to get them on board.
  
• We are preparing for our first contest. This is a major milestone - to hold our first student contest. We will need a basic website up and running, a cool idea for a contest, all the legal mumbo jumbo to hold the contest and advertising on a number of sites to attract students to participate. Lots left to do, but good progress on all fronts!
• Bringing on volunteers and providing some training. I have been working hard to sign up volunteers who let me know in the past that they were interested in helping. Those who are on board at this point are filling critical roles. And we still need more. This week was also about providing them with training on our mission, goals, roadmap, technology and so on.
  
• Continuing to progress with the platform. This week was about contacting a couple of design companies that will help us, researching user interface frameworks and digging through the many third party components. I am more and more convinced each day that Drupal was the right choice.
• And doing some nonprofit company stuff. We are a nonprofit but have not yet been approved as tax exempt. We spent some time understanding what is left to do. We also worked on the machine and business software and started researching insurance.

All in all, good progress. Still pretty nervous. Think that will be a constant for a while:)