SilverStripe

Watch the future of government

Posted by Sigurd Magnusson on 14 July 2009

SilverStripe recently attended and exhibited at GOVIS, a three day, IT sector conference for New Zealand government agencies. Our experience there reminded us why our government has such a hard time using the web innovatively.

SilverStripe staff were struck by the absence of a knowledge gap between speakers and delegates. In other words, public sector staff attending GOVIS were largely progressive and self-motivated individuals: not only were they aware of good trends and best practices to do with IT and the web, they were already pushing such ideas within their agencies. In fact, this made some speakers look like they were preaching to the converted on key topics like open data, web-based APIs, open source software, embracing standards, and enabling meaningful services and democratic process online.

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0 Comments Tags: govis, video, government

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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5 Comments Tags: video, fun

youtube.com/silverstripe

Posted by Sigurd on 1 November 2008

We've now acquired the youtube.com/silverstripe address!
Fom now on it replaces our old channel.

This new youtube channel contains all the videos we've produced over the past year...

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4 Comments Tags: video

Powering 4 days of political history

Posted by Sigurd on 25 August 2008

Tens of thousands of people are currently in Denver, Colorado, as part of a major process in the U.S. Presidential Election—the Democratic National Convention.

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1 Comments Tags: press, video, client work

How SilverStripe makes money, in 30 seconds.

Posted by Sigurd on 6 June 2008

People ask us how we make money if we give away our software.
Our CEO Brian Calhoun shares a key secret in a 30 second video...

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14 Comments Tags: open source, video, humour

SilverStripe youtube.com channel

Posted by Sigurd on 4 June 2008

You may have noticed that the recently mentioned videos about us on youtube were all uploaded by the same user...

This means you can visit www.youtube.com/SilverStripeSoftware to watch them all.

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SilverStripe overview videos produced

Posted by Sigurd on 1 May 2008

We've made it easier to introduce people to what SilverStripe can do with two new videos showcasing our software. They're designed to be the starting point of people's knowledge with SilverStripe, and lead them to our demo and probe further.

Site editing / content management system overview: 

Overview of building websites with SilverStripe: 

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4 Comments Tags: silverstripe software, video, demo

SilverStripe on Business Breakfast show

Posted by Sigurd on 9 April 2008

This morning, SilverStripe featured on the New Zealand national television show, Business Breakfast. It summarises how our open source software led to our involvement in this year's U.S. Democratic National Convention.

The two minute piece also mentions two other SilverStripe websites: TheLowDown.co.nz, a collaborative effort with Oktobor and Draft FCB for the Ministry of Health to combat youth depression, and an upcoming project in partnership with Inform and design company The Church to simplify understanding and joining KiwiSaver, New Zealand's main retirement fund.

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12 Comments Tags: press, video

Interview with Dion Almaer of Google & Ajaxian

Posted by Sigurd on 14 October 2007

On Friday, I was invited to speak with Dion Almaer about the SilverStripe project, our decision around PHP5, and how we ensured success with our participation in the the Google Summer of Code program which provided us with ten fulltime programmers to work on our project. The fifteen minute interview is on youtube.

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2 Comments Tags: gsoc, ajaxian, interview, video

Internet People

Posted by Sigurd on 13 September 2007

While I get a horde of links, videos, photos and nigerian scams to deliberate upon each day, I really felt I had to share this pure genius. That is, until the finale of advertisements undid the whole thing; a real pity. Continuing in the spirit of memory lane, but coming in a close second, is this MSDOS 5 advertisement.

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3 Comments Tags: humour, video