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Air New Zealand to migrate websites to SilverStripe

Posted by Sigurd Magnusson on 2 July 2009

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.

We're very excited to be helping Air New Zealand because we love seeing them successfully innovate. We love their streamlined check-in and boarding procedure, the mPass application for the iPhone, and their How Far Can I Go website—and that they were the first airline to fly a 747 on biofuel (they have some awesome biofuel policies). We look forward to our software and our knowledge allowing them to innovate much more rapidly and meaningfully with their main websites.

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Nine new staff, and maybe you make number 10?

Posted by Sigurd on 15 June 2009

We're very excited to welcome nine great new staff to SilverStripe—and we're still hiring!

• Carlos Barberis - HTML and PHP/MySQL guru
• Felipe Skroski - Kick-ass designer
• Hamish Friedlander - Parser generators, jQuery user interfaces, system administration, and everything in between
• Julian Seidenberg - Semantic web guru and our first PhD (and helping with our SilverStripe book)
• Kirsten Alexander - Coordinator
• Kirsten Moodie - On reception, and helping out with customer support and open source community work
• Nicole Tiefensee - Fantastic new project manager
• Rainer Spittel - Coding since 6, an expert in GIS, and helping to lead our development team
• Tom Rix - Zend certified, and loving development work on the underpinnings of the SilverStripe CMS

Have you seen our video on the issues we face trying to keep up with demand for client work and advancing our software?

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Keeping up with demand

Posted by Brian on 28 May 2009

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.

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The Star Group joins SilverStripe Partner Program

Posted by Brian on 28 May 2009

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.

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Two SilverStripe websites win awards

Posted by Sigurd on 12 May 2009

The National Broadband Map was a winner in the World Summit Awards, chosen from an international field of around 20,000 entrants from 157 countries.

We're very proud of our contribution to this award—our company built the site for the State Services Commission last year. We're also very pleased to see a government project with open APIs and public source code being recognised with such a prestigious award.

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Announcing the Partner Program

Posted by Brian on 6 May 2009

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.

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New-look SilverStripe brochures

Posted by Sigurd on 6 May 2009

We've dramatically updated the SilverStripe brochures which summarise the reasons for choosing our company and our software.

Our old brochures have served us loyally for a few years, but we wanted something that was visually consistent with our new website. In addition, our new brochures provide a more up-to-date description of our features and services, and mention that we have partners. They were debuted in Philadelphia today, inserted into delegate bags at the Janus Boye Web/CMS Conference.

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2009 Gold Awards Finalist

Posted by Sigurd on 24 March 2009

SilverStripe has been announced as a finalist in the 2009 Gold Awards.

The awards recognise and celebrate the leading businesses in our city, Wellington. Being nominated for the Cyber Gold category was based on the views of 60 respected business people acting as judges. We'd like to thank the judges for choosing to recognise us in this way.

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Internet Blackout

Posted by Brian on 16 February 2009

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.

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Welcome Peter, Miranda, and Ngoc

Posted by Sigurd on 22 January 2009

We're pleased to have three new staff recently join SilverStripe!

Peter Rostedt joins the sales team, bringing years of experience relevant to learning about our customers and shaping ideal websites and applications for them.

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