Weekly Wrap Up
Mentioned this week: Filming on location from Silicon Prairie News "West Omaha" and "Downtown Offices," Site Redesign Launch Party at LIV Lounge, KANEKO coverage in Metro Magazine: BRAVO! Jan 2010: KANEKO — Open Spaces. Open Minds. and on NET1's Nebraska Stories: Kaneko, entries for Des Moines' Creative Captial Pitch Session due Tuesday, Jan. 19 for the event on Jan. 28 at Dos Rios, and Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle’s plans to have Dodge and Center Street cleared for our launch party
Interests of last week
January issue – Holly McAtee of spiritofomaha.com/Metro Magazine: BRAVO! Jan 2010: KANEKO – Open Spaces. Open Minds
Jan. 3 – Paul Hammel of Omaha.com: CEOs drum up high-tech business
Jan. 7 – Nebraska Stories on NET1: Kaneko (about the work of Jun and Ree Kaneko, the founders of KANEKO)
Events of next week
Jan. 9 – Hot Shops Welcomes Visual Arts Nominees of 2010 Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards
Jan. 14 – Silicon Prairie News Site Redesign Launch Party
If you have additional interests or events that you’d like the Silicon Prairie News community to know about, add it in a comment below (a link, date, time and location would be helpful).
ARCHIVED COMMENTS
Whoa. Dropping WordPress? Now I'm interested. So does Brightmix handle the coding?
Brad,
Yup you heard it right... we'll be dropping Wordpress for SPN v2. We've had a great run with it, and it still is a fantastic platform that we highly recommend to anyone who's blogging. However, we have some exciting ideas around deeply integrating areas of the site, and for us it only makes sense to own the platform. You'll be able to see a handful of these things next week for the launch, and they'll continue to become apparent in the coming weeks / months as we rollout new features. Brightmix is indeed handling all of the development work on this project. We're excited to get it out the door for the world to see!
I should also add that with the launch of the site, we'll also be adding a section of the site devoted to talking about SPN the company. Here we'll be able to outline some of these features of the new CMS in more in depth. So, for those interested in such things, we hope to share as much info as possible!
Looking forward to the new site! What technoloy are you using for the new site? Still php based? Ruby? Django?
Thanks,
Chad
Forgot to mention that... The new CMS is Ruby on Rails based.