Weekend Schedule
Three days, one website per team. Friday is the homepage. Saturday is subpages by day and features by night. Sunday is fixes, accessibility, QA, and handoff to your nonprofit.
- Fri + Sat: Atlanta Tech Village and virtual
- Sun: fully virtual
- All times: Eastern (ET)
Friday, Oct 23
Atlanta Tech Village 6:00–11:00 PM · virtual
- Build
- Homepage
- Nonprofit
- Questions call after kickoff
- Check-ins
- 5:30 PM · 10:00 PM
- Meals
- Dinner 6:00 PM
- By tonight
- Homepage built
Saturday, Oct 24
Atlanta Tech Village 8:00 AM–10:00 PM · virtual
- Build
- Subpages by day, features by night
- Nonprofit
- Homepage review AM · progress check PM
- Check-ins
- 9:00 AM · 4:00 PM · 9:00 PM
- Meals
- Breakfast 8:00 · Lunch 12:00 · Dinner 6:00
- By tonight
- Every page and feature built
Sunday, Oct 25
Fully virtual
- Build
- Fixes, accessibility, QA
- Nonprofit
- PM handoff call
- Check-ins
- 10:00 AM · 3:30 PM
- Closing
- 5:30 PM on Zoom
- By 4:00 PM
- Site complete and submitted
Friday, October 23 — Homepage night
Atlanta Tech Village is open 6:00–11:00 PM. Virtual volunteers join the Opening Ceremony stream at 6:30 and meet their team on the team's own video link.
| Time | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:30 PM | EPM/PM Check-In | EPMs + PMs | Slack. Confirm who is here, who dropped, and any last-minute team reshuffles. |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner | In-person volunteers | At ATV. Virtual volunteers: eat before 6:30. |
| 6:30 PM | Opening Ceremony | Everyone | At ATV and streamed on Zoom. Welcome, how the weekend works, what "done" looks like. |
| 7:00 PM | Gather with your team | All teams | PM leads. Introductions and roles. Open your nonprofit's brief, content, and assets in GetReady. Confirm everyone has the staging site link, Beaver Builder login, and project board. |
| 7:00–7:30 PM | Call with your nonprofit | Team + nonprofit | Time is flexible. Confirm the goal of the site, the pages they need, and any questions about their content. Nail down anything missing before you build. |
| 7:30–8:00 PM | Building begins | All teams | Build the homepage. Designer sets the look: header, navigation, hero, colors, fonts. Builder builds the structure in Beaver Builder. Content lead pulls copy and images from the nonprofit's materials and writes the homepage copy. |
| 10:00 PM | EPM/PM Check-In | EPMs + PMs | Slack. Report homepage status (red / yellow / green) and anything blocking you. EPMs update site status in GetReady. |
| 11:00 PM | ATV closes | In-person volunteers | Virtual teams may keep working. Before you leave, agree on your Saturday morning meeting time. |
By the end of Friday: the homepage is built on staging and the team knows which subpages it is building Saturday.
Saturday, October 24 — Subpages by day, features by night
Atlanta Tech Village is open 8:00 AM–10:00 PM. Subpages are the daytime job; features are the evening job. Tonight's goal: every page and feature built, so Sunday is only fixes and QA.
| Time | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | ATV opens · Light breakfast | In-person volunteers | Bagels and coffee. |
| 8:00–9:00 AM | Team meeting | All teams | Time set by your PM. Walk the homepage together, fix anything obvious, and list the subpages with an owner for each. |
| 9:00 AM | EPM/PM Check-In | EPMs + PMs | Slack. Homepage status, no-shows, backfills needed. |
| 9:30–10:30 AM | Homepage review with your nonprofit | Team + nonprofit | Time is flexible. Show the homepage, take feedback, and confirm the final list of subpages. Note the changes; keep moving. |
| 10:30 AM | Build subpages | All teams | Build the subpages. Typical set: About, Programs or Services, Get Involved or Volunteer, Donate, Contact, plus any the nonprofit asked for. Designer keeps every page consistent with the homepage; builder lays out pages; content lead writes and places copy and images. |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | Everyone | At ATV. Virtual volunteers: check email for your Uber Eats voucher. Keep building. |
| 2:30 PM | Team meeting | All teams | Time set by your PM. Pages done vs. remaining; reassign if someone is stuck. |
| 4:00 PM | EPM/PM Check-In | EPMs + PMs | Slack. Milestone: all subpages built. Report what is left. EPMs update GetReady. |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner | In-person volunteers | At ATV. |
| 6:00–7:00 PM | Progress check with your nonprofit | Team + nonprofit | Time is flexible. Walk the subpages, confirm the features they need (forms, donate, events, and so on), and collect any final content. |
| 7:00 PM | Build features | All teams | Build the features. Contact and signup forms, donate button or link, events or calendar, blog or news, newsletter signup, social links, embedded maps or videos, page titles and basic SEO. Then a first pass on mobile. |
| 9:00 PM | EPM/PM Check-In | EPMs + PMs | Slack. Status by team: pages, features, known issues. EPMs update GetReady. |
| 10:00 PM | ATV closes | In-person volunteers | Set your Sunday morning meeting time before you leave. |
By the end of Saturday: every page and feature is built on staging. Sunday is for fixing, not building.
Sunday, October 25 — Fix, audit, QA, hand off
Teams work on their own video link; the Closing Ceremony is on Zoom. No new pages or features today. Finish, fix, and polish.
| Time | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Accessibility audits begin | Accessibility team | Runs all day. Audits happen on your staging site while you work; results are posted to your team in Slack (#a11y). Fix what they flag. |
| 9:00–9:30 AM | Team meeting | All teams | Time set by your PM. Build the punch list: broken links, missing images, placeholder text, mobile issues, forms that don't submit. |
| 10:00 AM | EPM/PM Check-In | EPMs + PMs | Slack. Is the site on track to submit at noon? What needs help? |
| 10:00 AM–12:00 PM | Final fixes | All teams | Work the punch list and the accessibility findings. Proofread every page. Check every page on a phone. |
| 12:00 PM | Submit your site to QA | PM | Mark the site ready on the project board. Hands off the site until QA results come back. QA runs 12:00–4:00 PM; international teams are reviewed first. |
| 12:00–3:30 PM | Fix QA and accessibility findings | All teams | Make the fixes QA sends back, nothing else. |
| 12:00–3:30 PM | Handoff call with your nonprofit | PM (required) + any team members | Explain what was built, what is unfinished, and next steps: how the site goes live, their login, and post-event support. Create the nonprofit's login before the Closing Ceremony and send the handoff email. |
| 3:30 PM | EPM/PM Check-In | EPMs + PMs | Slack. Final status by team. EPMs update GetReady. |
| 4:00 PM | All websites complete | All teams | Stop building. PM documents anything unfinished on the project board. Judging begins. |
| 5:30 PM | Closing Ceremony | Everyone | Zoom. Winners, thank-yous, and what happens next for the nonprofits. |
By the end of Sunday: the site is complete and QA'd, the nonprofit has its login and knows the go-live plan, and the handoff email is sent.
The rhythm of the weekend
EPM/PM Check-Ins (Slack, 7 total)
Fri 5:30 PM and 10:00 PM · Sat 9:00 AM, 4:00 PM, 9:00 PM · Sun 10:00 AM and 3:30 PM. PMs post status in the EPM/PM Slack channel; EPMs update site status in GetReady after each one.
Nonprofit touchpoints (4, times flexible)
Friday after kickoff: questions. Saturday morning: homepage review. Saturday evening: progress check and features. Sunday: PM handoff call on next steps and going live.
Team meetings
Set by your PM, roughly every 2–3 hours: Friday 7:00 PM; Saturday morning, 2:30 PM, and after dinner; Sunday morning. Adjust these to your team. EPM/PM check-ins and milestones do not move.
Help desk
Open the entire event in Slack (#help-support). Ask there first; your EPM is the escalation path.
Virtual volunteers
Opening and Closing Ceremonies stream on Zoom. Everything else happens on your team's own video link and in your team's Slack channel. Uber Eats lunch vouchers go out by email Saturday around noon.
Milestones that do not move
Homepage built Friday night · Subpages built Saturday 4:00 PM · Features built Saturday night · Submit to QA Sunday 12:00 PM · All websites complete Sunday 4:00 PM.
48in48 Global 2026 · October 23–25, 2026 · Atlanta Tech Village and virtual · All times Eastern (ET).