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Keeping up with demand
The video we made for the recent Gold Awards explains our problem: we have a lot of exciting work coming our way and we can't hire great staff fast enough. That's why we started looking at our inter-species and inter-generational options.
Watch our video and you'll understand our recruitment challenges.
5 Comments Tags: video, fun
The Star Group joins SilverStripe Partner Program
Just after we announced the SilverStripe Partner Program, we are happy to welcome our latest SilverStripe Partner: The Star Group.
The Star Group is a creative agency based out of Philadelphia, PA, with four offices in the eastern United States. They offer a wide range of digital services, as well as marketing services such as branding, advertising, PR and design. Contact The Star Group to learn more.
0 Comments Tags: partners, global, services, support
Announcing the Partner Program
We are all very proud to announce the SilverStripe Partner Program! This is a big deal for us for a number of reasons:
- Through our partners, we are able to provide local development and support services to the SilverStripe community throughout the globe.
- Our partners are trusted providers who have demonstrated a commitment and ability to provide excellent SilverStripe-related services to their clients. All together, our partners offer marketing, design, development, and support for your SilverStripe needs.
- We're answering the call: more businesses (and individuals) around the world will be able to attend local SilverStripe meetups, talk to local SilverStripe service providers, and get support when they need it.
Here at SilverStripe headquarters we're still providing the same services as always, but starting today, our partners will be able to offer their SilverStripe design, development, and support expertise with the backing of SilverStripe HQ here in New Zealand.
0 Comments Tags: partners, global, wellington, services, support
Internet Blackout
UPDATE: 12 March: One of the main companies that was needed to make this piece of legislation happen has said they won't support it! A TelstraClear representative said, "...we have had unprecedented customer concern and we can't try to make a bad law work." More at the original article.
New Zealand's Internet Blackout is coming.
2 Comments Tags: blackout, new zealand, freedom
Creative Freedom Foundation
Yesterday, the Creative Freedom Foundation launched. What is it? It's a group of Kiwis raising awareness around some terrible legislation that's set to go into law in about two months' time.
The CFF is focusing on the "Guilt by accusation" amendments to New Zealand copyright law. From their press release:
3 Comments Tags: rights, New Zealand, freedom
Welcome to our new website!
Welcome to our newly re-designed website! The launch of our new SilverStripe.com and SilverStripe.org sites is a big deal to us and we hope you find the changes useful.
One of the things we wanted to improve over the old SilverStripe.com site was to have a more clear distinction between information about our open source software and information about our company. We got a lot of feedback from developers and clients which centered around the fact that they couldn't find what they needed on our site. So we decided to create SilverStripe.org and have that as the home for all things related to our open source product.
Two Years of Open Source Goodness
As we approach the two-year anniversary of releasing our software under an open source license, I thought I'd write a bit about where we see things going. BTW, the official birthday of our open source software is 10 October 2006. Not sure how we're going to celebrate, but it's a safe bet there will be beer involved.
What's been different than expected over the past two years?
8 Comments Tags: open source, anniversary, adoption
iPhone as iPlatform
Today's the day the iPhone launches here in New Zealand. We're excited about this because it's a fun device with heaps of integration among the out-of-the-box software, but most importantly, in ushers in a very clever application development (and business) model.
The iPhone App Store is open for business with (as of this writing) 552 applications for download to your iPhone. 24% of those are free downloads. If you're a software development shop and you want to have your application run on the iPhone (maybe taking advantage of all the location-aware built-in GPS goodness), you can get Apple to distribute and sell your application for you! Apple will take 30% of the sale price for each person who downloads your application via the App Store. You get to keep 70%. Not a bad deal considering Apple takes care of ecommerce, marketing, distribution and delivery. Of course, to prevent l33t h4xx0r software from getting on the App Store, Apple will review each software submission for appropriateness.
0 Comments Tags: Apple, iPhone, software
Trent Reznor and open source
A couple days ago, Trent Reznor, the brains behind Nine Inch Nails, released a new album. This is the first album he's released since he left the major record label under which he was contracted. He's long been a proponent of more independently-created music specifically as it relates to musicians having to sign onerous contracts just to get a record out. That was the old way of doing things.
For the past year at least, Trent Reznor's been talking about how he wanted to offer his audience different options for experiencing his music, all of which would be high-quality (he rightly wants control over the production quality of his music). If you go to his new site Ghosts you can see he offers five options ranging from free to $300 USD for experiencing his new album via download, cd, vinyl, etc. Well, there are only four options now that the $300 limited edition vinyl-and-gyclee-print package is sold out. He also mentions on the site quite a bit about how the overall process went. Fascinating stuff.
3 Comments Tags: open source, music
Webstock 08
What an awesome time we had last week at Webstock 08. For those of you not in New Zealand, Webstock is web-industry conference held here in Wellington every two years. This year the speakers included the likes of Tom Coates, Kelly Goto, Liz Danzico, Peter Morville, Michael Lopp, Kathy Sierra, and New Zealand's own Nat Torkington and Russell Brown, among many others.
1 Comments Tags: webstock, wellington, conference, speaking
Air New Zealand to migrate websites to SilverStripe
New Zealand's national airline, Air New Zealand, has decided to migrate their main websites to the SilverStripe platform. Website developers and other IT staff at the airline will work closely with SilverStripe's senior staff to make this happen over the coming 12 months.
SilverStripe Ltd Level 5, Symes de Silva House, 97–99 Courtenay Place, Wellington, New Zealand. Phone us: +64 4 978 7330. Paid Support available: +64 4 978 7333.
Looking for our Open Source Software? Then head to SilverStripe.org.
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