I’m sure one of the most tedious tasks for any conference organizer is to give away hundreds of swag at the end of the conference. By that point, you’re tired and you’re ready to go home. But it’s an essential closer for many people, so we do it any; drawing ticket after blue ticket. There must be another way.

There is. CodeMash 2.0.1.0 solved this problem with a cool app called raffleboard.

Since we’re doing a Code Camp on January 30th, I really wanted this application to help me give away prizes. I checked the web and found that the source code was released. I found it was written in Ruby, which I’ve never actually used before. Luckily, it only took me a few minutes to get everything running: download Ruby, download Sinatra with RubyGems, compile.

I’m a .NET guy though… I wanted a .NET version of this I could play with. I couldn’t find the license, so I emailed Adam (listed right in the application) and he was cool with me branching it. So now, Code Camp Raffleboard is born. It runs on ASP.NET MVC and uses the Spark View Engine.

If you’re a Code Camp organizer, or organize other types of conferences, it will make your life easier. Download Code Camp Raffleboard today!

One warning: neither version runs in Internet Explorer. I will see about fixing this in CCR for a future release. There are problems with the style sheets (too advanced) and jQuery.