SilverStripe

Getting Deeper

Posted by Brian on 13 October 2007

Hi everyone! I just wanted to make a quick post to say a few things about my new role as CEO of SilverStripe.

First, I do want to thank all the people in and around SilverStripe for making the product and the company what it is today. The founders and the rest of the staff of SilverStripe have done an amazing job to get the product where it is today whilst creating awesome websites for our clients. In fact, it's really the other way around: the work we do for our clients takes first priority and the SilverStripe CMS allows us to create better sites for our clients. And of course a big thanks goes out to the developer community and our Google Summer of Code students who all contribute to the SilverStripe product and community in numerous ways.

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2 weeks to America

Posted by Sigurd on 18 September 2007

Thanks Google! Two weeks from today I'll be going back 19 hours in time, having been invited back to San Francisco for the Google Summer of Code mentor summit. This is all so we can discuss how to improve the extremely generous and very fruitful open source program that Google let us participate in this year. It's awesome to see a strong contingent of fellow New Zealanders coming, including Penny, Geoff and Robert.

It's less than two months since my last visit to Google, where I did an hour long tech-talk (video) and had an awe-inspiring tour of the Google campus, so I look forward to meeting up with the same great people (and the free food!)

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Google Tech Talk

Posted by Sigurd on 2 August 2007

Yesterday we were invited to do a tech talk at Google as part of their open source speaker series. I gave an overview of New Zealand and the software that has come from our country, naturally including SilverStripe. We also showcased the work done from the money Google gave us, and provided lessons and ideas for others managing software projects. You can watch the presentation on google video.

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Google Tour

Posted by Sigurd on 2 August 2007

Our visit to the Google office in Mountain View was certainly like being a small boy in a toystore. Lots of fun! Our fantastic tour guide Leslie Hawthorne showed us...

• The live view of search phases being entered into Google
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Lots and lots (and lots) of (did I mention lots?) great free food
• Google Toilets, complete with testing on the toilet
  
  
• Beach volleyball court
• Lots of large, open, rather pleasant working spaces
• Their swimming pool
  
  
• A replica of SpaceShipOne. Just to make it clear: if anyone wishes to donate me one, I won't say no...

If there was one thing that surprised me, it was the lack of Google signage. It really made you feel like you were in a pleasant life style rather than a billion dollar company...

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