April 27, 2008
Jacquie Langham - painting again
My Mum started painting again in earnest recently and her paintings are now up for sale as prints at The Big Empty Wall Gallery. I'm blatantly going to copy the blurb on the Web site - because I couldn't have written it any better.
Jacquie Langham qualified as a teacher of Art and Craft at Bretton Hall. Alongside her teaching career here and in Germany, she developed as a mural and portrait artist. She and her late husband held exhibitions and opened a Gallery in Germany, showing their paintings, ceramics and jewellery. They lived and worked there for 17 years and their paintings can be seen in private collections, worldwide.
Since returning to this country, Jacquie has continued to paint portraits on commission, until quite recently, when she started to work with acrylics for the first time and became excited by the medium, producing unusual and vivid images of chillis, peppers and other vegetables. She is, at present, exploring dramatic and colourful aspects of other familiar images.
Makes me really proud to be able to point to her work and I hope you'll check out the the site for more - and larger pictures!
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April 10, 2008
BigCo Open Source consulting
For the past year I've been doing some major Open Source strategy consulting for a global BigCo. It has been (and still is) a fascinating and extremely fulfilling experience.
My focus hasn't been on implementing a software project but on authoring an internal Open Source strategy whitepaper and establishing things like an Open Source policy and Open Source guidance or setting up an Open Source internal community within said BigCo.
Seeing the growing interest for Open Source within the corporation gives me some real satisfaction and in a way it shows that jumping into the - then - icy cold Open Source business "water" back in 2000 was one of the best decisions I ever made.
Another blog post - I'm sure this is just a fad.
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The Nyooze is out
Breaking my blogging silence (I'm on Twitter in case you miss me) to announce the launch of the Nyooze-Website.
Nyooze is a platform product we've built targeted at content providers (such as publishers, local radio and tv stations, event organizers and even weather data providers) that allows them to integrate a branded social community around eyewitness content into their existing web-offering or co-brand new offerings. It's a white-label product, built on Ruby on Rails. It integrates existing content sources and extends into the mobile, Twitter and live-streaming spaces.
So, if you're interested - then take a look at the information on the website and contact me to find out more. And now - back to the silence you've become used to here.
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