SilverStripe

New Zealand's Internet Blackout is coming. SilverStripe supports the efforts of the Creative Freedom Foundation and we will show our support very soon...

We're pleased to have three new staff recently join SilverStripe! Peter Rostedt joins the sales team, bringing years of experience relevant to learning about our customers and shaping ideal websites and applications for them. To aid with our growing ... [More] project workload, Miranda Kaye joins us as a project manager. She's spent years managing websites, and also comes with a solid English Lit background. Finally, Ngoc Heng joins us as a very helpful addition on the front desk! A very warm welcome to all of them!   [Less]

Yesterday, the Creative Freedom Foundation launched. What is it? It's a group of Kiwis raising awareness around some terrible legislation that's set to go into law in about two months' time. The CFF is focusing on the "Guilt by accusation" ... [More] amendments to New Zealand copyright law. From their press release: The Creative Freedom Foundation's first campaign is against a proposed law in New Zealand: Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. S92 assumes 'Guilt Upon Accusation' - cutting off internet connections and websites based on accusations of Copyright infringement, without evidence or even a trial. Foundation Co-Founder and Director, Bronwyn Holloway-Smith says: "The result of this law could be that one rogue employee or even one virus infected computer could bring down a whole organisation's internet and it's highly likely that schools, businesses, hospitals, and phone services will be harmed by this." On 28 February 2009, S92 will come into effect in New Zealand if there is no positive action on the part of the Government to change it. To date the Government has shown support for the bill and, unless there is major public protest against it, it will "roll over" in to law. If it goes through, this will expose businesses in New Zealand to undue risk. When businesses are trying to increase the amount of exports from New Zealand and compete more effectively in a global market, why hamper one of critical lifelines -- Internet-based business? It simply does not make sense. The CFF has a "What can I do?" page with more details. Please check it out and sign the petition. New Zealand simply cannot afford to let this go through. Thanks. [Less]

Welcome to our newly re-designed website! The launch of our new SilverStripe.com and SilverStripe.org sites is a big deal to us and we hope you find the changes useful.  One of the things we wanted to improve over the old SilverStripe.com site was to ... [More] have a more clear distinction between information about our open source software and information about our company. We got a lot of feedback from developers and clients which centered around the fact that they couldn't find what they needed on our site. So we decided to create SilverStripe.org and have that as the home for all things related to our open source product. As we started splitting out the content from the .com to a new .org, we pretty quickly realised a site re-design was in order. We enlisted the help of an extaordinairy designer, Sally Flewelling (moc.liamg@gnillewelfyllas), who guided us through the design process. We couldn't be happier with the outcome and so a big Thank You goes to her. We'd also like to thank Daisuke Maki for the very generous donation of the SilverStripe.org domain name to us. Finally, thank you to all the SilverStripe employees, especially the ones putting in extra hours to make these two sites happen (alongside multiple client site launches!): Sean Harvey, Saophalkun Ponlu, James Kirkus-Lamont, Michael Andrewartha, Will Rossiter, Sam Minnée, and our project manager leading the charge: Sibylle Schwarz. Thanks guys, you seriously rock. So, to sum up: SilverStripe.com for commercial stuff SilverStripe.org for open source stuff We've put a "give feedback" link at the bottom of each page. If you have comments about the new sites, please let us know. Enjoy! Brian [Less]

Having recently received quite a bit of interest from New Zealand councils, we  attended the ALGIM conference, an annual get-together for council IT managers and staff.

Over recent weeks there's been a flurry of great meetups. These have provided us with a great sense of what people are doing with SilverStripe in London, Germany, and (pictured below) in Wellington.

An update to our previous blog post...

SilverStripe v2.3.0 is nearly here!  The first release candidate has been announced, and we expect that a stable version of 2.3.0 will be available in the next few weeks.

German readers can now pre-order SilverStripe: Das umfassende Handbuch from Amazon, due to be published February 2009.

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