Angie Joins mySociety
Vertebrate's own head developer Angie Ahl has been invited to join the core development team at mySociety.
mySociety has, in their own words, two missions:
"The first is to be a charitable project which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. The second is to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how to most efficiently use the internet to improve lives."
The chance to get paid to work with this small, extremely talented team of programmers on socially worthwhile, cutting-edge sites isn't the kind of thing you turn down.
Business as Usual(ish)...
Obviously, Angie dedicating some of her time to mySociety's projects is going to have an impact on Vertebrate. The most important effect is the fact that we can now be even more selective about the commercial projects that we work on.
Angie with MySociety
The fact that we can afford to be more selective means we're going to be picking those jobs that really interest us. Being really interested means we'll be doing our best work and in turn leads to some very exciting new things being added to the Vertebrate portfolio..
Support for all of our existing clients will continue as usual and Angie's collaboration with the mySociety team and subsequent exposure to new ways of working is going to be a major boost for the continuing development of Weblobe.