The Contest is HERE!!

The Preview Release of FreshBrain is up and running!!

We did it. We have released the first version of our website - freshbrain.org. Please come and check it out!!

The preview release is there for two reasons.

1. Contest site - enter to win one of 5 iPod Touches.

1. FreshBrain information - students, parents, partners, volunteers and so on can find out more about FreshBrain.

Seems simple enough. But a lot went into it.

• Great teamwork between FreshBrain and Image X Media. Image X Media is our website development partner. Their whole team has been great, especially Glenn their CEO and Rick their head of sales and our project lead.

• Built on Drupal! We decided to use Drupal a while back and because of its use, there is a lot more to the site than we had originally expected. And the results are pretty awesome. Good content management and the begnnings of community capabilities!

• Successful deployment on Network.com from Sun Microsystems. The network.com team has been absolutely awesome to work with and delivered us the capabilities well ahead of schedule - our original plan was to go live on network.com for the Beta release in January. This means we are up and running on Sun Systems and Solaris! Big thanks to Jim who is the Sun VP responsible.

• Incredible support from Fenwick & West. They provided us with guidance as well as our Privacy Policy, Copyright & IP Policy, Contest Rules and Website Terms and Consitions. Big thanks to Julie who is our probono contact, Tracy the awesome lawyer who has been working directly with us and Mitchell the partner responsible for this area.

• And of course big thanks goes to my team. Todd, CT and Stan have been incredible. Everyone is in a new and different job. Everyone is something every day!

The point of all of this of course is the students. We are on a mission to enhance the educational system by providing them with the opportunity to real world hands on experience in with technology and business. This preview release is the first step. I couldn't be more excited.

Come check it out!!