CivicActions is looking for Engineers

<p>From the CivicActions Blog:<br /> <cite><br /> CivicActions, LLC is a "virtual" company specializing in delivering F/OSS applications to a growing list of progressive non-profits, political campaigns, and socially responsible businesses. We build LAMP web apps for our clients using Drupal. We are seeking the right people to join our team of over 20 practitioners working in diverse geographical areas from Seattle to Miami to Barcelona to Christchurch, NZ!<br /> </cite><br /> <cite><br /> We are looking for people who share our progressive values and goals and are super excited about the opportunity to work with a team of top-notch web professionals. We are helping our clients create a better world for us and our children.<br /> </cite><br /> <a href="http://www.civicactions.com/jobs">Read the rest of the...

Who Killed the Electric Car?

I went to see “Who Killed the Electric Car” over the weekend. It is a nice little documentary that will make you really mad if you are anything like me. Big oil, and big auto have way to much control in our...

"These are people who are politically driven…"

<p>The New York Times reported a quote from George Bush earlier this week (it might have been last weekend, i tore the quote out but didn't note the date). that caught my eye for the extreme absurdity of it.</p> <p>"No, these are people that are politically driven. They want to impose their vision on other people." OK, who do you think he is talking about? Sounds to me like the Christian Right, maybe Republicans in general? Could he mean Democrats?</p> <p>He continued "That's what they're trying to do. And the United States of America must nver retreat and let them have their way."</p> <p>He was talking about "the terrorists". But it does sound and awful lot like his party with their stem cell research bans, school prayer, abortion prohibition, creationism, etc…. It also sounds like what we are doing in the middle east: Politically driven, imposing our vision of democracy on foreign people and cultures….</p> <p>The thing is, he is exactly right, though completely wrong. First off, he probably meant that "these are poeple that are idioligically driven," but ignoring that word retrieval error: The United States must never let anyone impose their political or idiological vision on anyone. Imposing anything it anti freedom. People came to America to escape the imposition of idiology or religion. Oh how far we've come.</p> <p>We should be devending individuals and peoples' rights to chose what they want for...

NPR and PRI stories worth listening too

There were to good stories on NPR and PRI about technology today. The All Things Considered bit is about back to school technology, back to school sales and what is “wanted” vs “needed”. Market Place ran a story about wireless email access and vacations. News Flash: Americans are too connected! There are dangers to being available TOO much. The piece talks about a study from Rutgers about technology...

Going “off-site”: Amsterdam 2006

In mid September nearly the entire CivicActions team will converge in Amsterdam for our fourth Quarterly “off site�. It is an anniversary of sorts, we were in Amsterdam in October of 2005 for our first offsite. As a virtual firm, distributed across the world, we make it a point of coming together on this periodic basis to meet each other, share ideas, get aligned, and do amazing things. (You can see photos from earlier offsites on our Flickr group.) This year, as last, our retreat is times to coincide with DrupalCon, this time in Brussles. Arthur, Dan and Ethan will be staying on for DrupalCon. CivicActions is a Gold Sponsor of the conference which will play host to many wonderful discussions about nodes, permissions, relationships and other drupalish things. This will be the third DrupalCon that members of our team have participated in. Between the offsite (which consists of 4 days of strategy sessions, hacking, talking, trust falls – er, no trust falls) and DrupalCon, our engineering team is having a code sprint to take advantage of their colocation to do some heavy lifting. This is a new experiment for us, but I think everyone is excited about the opportunity to work across the room from each other, rather than across the continent. Look for more posts about the offsite, the code sprtint and DrupalCon as we get ready to go, and while we are...