New projects

The Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership (LCREP) first worked with OpenSourcery last year, when they needed to ditch their (to be charitable) "inconsistent" Microsoft Access-based mapping tools. Their maps would only work on Internet Explorer 5, cost more than their nonprofit could afford, and proved a serious burden on the organization. Round one of working with OpenSourcery cured that initial problem.

Now LCREP is in the position to upgrade their website and their tools. It's a story we love to hear and retell: because other river groups have developed powerful open source mapping tools (also working with OpenSourcery), LCREP can leverage community efforts to improve their own website. It's community development at its finest.

Beginning this December, LCREP has contracted OpenSourcery to:

And OpenSourcery will provide further value with short code bursts, frequent iterations, and all the other benefits of our Agile development process. We look forward to providing a tremendous amount of value to our friends at LCREP, and to working with them on a successful launch.

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The Linux Foundation, which provides value to thousands of users every day, has decided to highlight the community's creative spirit by hosting a video contest. Of course, they needed the right tools to get the job done, so they asked OpenSourcery to design and develop a website for their user-generated videos and their internally produced videos.

We encourage you to visit their current video gallery, which is home to dozens of keynote addresses, panel discussions, and informative interviews. It's a wealth of information that already generates a lot of interest. We're very excited to redesign the site so it's easier for visitors to intelligently search for the content they need, explore related videos, and even give back to the community. It's the kind of work our user interface and informtion architecture lead, Randall Hansen, loves to take on.

OpenSourcery's Drupal developers will update the Video Upload module we created for Drupal 5, and make it available in Drupal 6. It's one of Jonathan Hedstrom's contributions, which you can learn more about here or read about in his blog. Since our team is full of Linux devotees, this project is like a dream come true. Keep your eyes out of the new site, which should be up and running before the holidays.