FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
John De Santiago
Business Development Manager, OpenRain, LLC
Desk: 1 (623) 691-7869 x6426
Fax: 1 (602) 680-5780
john.desantiago [at] openrain dot com
http://openrain.com
New Phoenix Development Community For Google’s Phone Platform
OpenRain Elite Web Software in Mesa is organizing and hosting an ongoing series of free community events for software developers interested in creating applications for Android-based mobile devices: a competitor of Apple’s iPhone. Android is an open source operating system developed by Google that powers the T-Mobile G1 phone. Previous meetings have featured a speech by a current developer of the Android platform, and tutorials on how to get started writing custom applications.
Interested software developers should join the Phoenix Android mailing list at the URL below or call OpenRain at (623) 691-7869 for details. Meetings are held monthly.
http://groups.google.com/group/phoenix-android
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About OpenRain – OpenRain was founded by local ASU computer scientists in 2006 to address business web development needs using fast-paced software engineering methodologies and rapid prototyping concepts. The company achieved over 100% growth in the first fully operational year, is minority owned and operated, and strengthens Phoenix by hosting technical group meetings, providing speakers to software events and contributing to the local Chamber of Commerce.
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Notwithstanding a change of heart from Apple following yesterdays announcement, the first Phoenix iPhone Developer Group meeting will be held at 6pm on Wednesday, October 22nd at the OpenRain office. We’ll have several give-a-ways, food, a presentation by iPhone application developer Brad O’Hearne, and a whole lot of fun!
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On Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 we’re hosting a free event at OpenRain HQ with Refocus Phoenix to get your computer monitor rendering colors correctly. If you’re a web designer, photographer or other graphics professional that is not using a custom color profile, this is a must-do process. I mean it. You owe it to your clients. We ran a tiny experiment to see if people found our internal profiles valuable and the feedback has been tremendously positive, so it’s time to take it up a notch. The process is..
- Bring in your monitor. Laptops and personal machines are more than welcome, too, but you’ll need to install the software component of the calibration tool. (I doubt it’ll run on Linux, sorry.)
- We strap on a hardware colorimeter and run some software. (Takes ~20 minutes, depending on the tweakability of your monitor.)
- An .icc color profile is generated with which you keep, use and immediately benefit. OpenRain uses and recommends OS X for graphics work, in which we have had no issues with custom .icc files.
There’s no substitute for having a profile created for your specific monitor, and it’s happening here for free in August!
To design out any issues with unattended hardware, we’ll provide pizza, soda and water so you can stay close to your beloved monitor at all times.
OpenRain HQ
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
6:30 – 8:30ish
Food will be hot at 6:30.
Please post any questions to this thread and/or the Refocus Google Group.
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It’s time to celebrate our office upgrade to Mesa, Arizona at the OpenRain Open House this Friday with friends, family, and the Phoenix tech community over food, drink, and games. This is an open invitation to you and everyone else in the Phoenix area that enjoys the design, development, and business of web software. OpenRain is growing and it’s because of you.
OpenRain HQ
Friday, July 18th, 6pm-9pm.
Catering will be provided around 6pm.
To assure ample food and drink, please RSVP using the form at the bottom of the OpenRain homepage.
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As soon as potential legal gotchas with Apple are cleared up, we’ll be hosting the first ever Phoenix iPhone Developer Group (Pi) meeting, hopefully this month. We’ll be providing food and potentially other sponsorship, so grab the latest SDK build from the Apple Developer Connection and get ready! (We’ll post an announcement with the details as soon as the meeting is scheduled.)
In the meantime, join the Google Group.
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