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- Jan 20 2016
Welcome, Lorin Bond!
We’ve had some great opportunities for team bonding lately thanks to our newest teammate—Lorin Bond! Lorin brings a strong background in business consulting and project management, a keen interest in developing accessible software, and an excellent last name for a project manager. Lorin joins us from Chevron, where she built a software usability center for […]
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- Dec 10 2015
Bocoup ♥ WordPress
Illustration by Sue Lockwood We here at Bocoup want to take a moment to recognize two of our team members for their work on WordPress 4.4, which was released this week: Mat “Wilto” Marquis and K. Adam White. Mat, by his own description, was the lead noise-maker for the effort to get native responsive image […]
Continue ReadingBocoup ♥ WordPress - Nov 23 2015
Our Work with Data Voyager: Designing for Fast Data Exploration
Recently, we announced our Knight Foundation Prototype Grant to work on Data Voyager, a tool for exploring the breadth and depth of a particular dataset with ease through automated visualization recommendations. Data Voyager was originally created as a research project by Jeff Heer’s Interactive Data Lab at the University of Washington (with implementation led by […]
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- Nov 18 2015
Ansible-based Deployment Workflow for Modern Webapps and Websites
Illustration by Christine An Over the years, Bocoup has put a lot of open source work on the internet, and we’ve used a huge range of services to do so. In early 2014, it was possible to find our efforts hosted on Dreamhost, Media Temple, Linode, Github Pages, Rackspace, Heroku, DigitalOcean, Amazon, and more. Recently, […]
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- Nov 18 2015
Welcome, Francis Gulotta!
We’re servo-ing up some great news today: our coop is embiggened once again, with Francis Gulotta joining Bocoup as Director of Web Connected Devices. A lifelong New Yorker, Francis has spent his life immersed in building technology. He’s consulted for small businesses, schools, and startups on his own and at his agency, Wizard Development, served […]
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- Oct 23 2015
Carry On, Wayward Branyen!
Today we share the news that Tim Branyen has left Bocoup to watch join Netflix. While at Bocoup this time, Tim contributed important work to the Open Web, including NodeGit, the DOM diffing library diffhtml, and the templating engine combyne. We are excited to continue to help support and grow these innovative projects, and can’t […]
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- Aug 04 2015
Announcing Voyager, a Knight Foundation Prototype Grant Project
We’re excited to announce the Voyager project as one of 22 recipients of a Knight Foundation Prototype Grant. The grant is designed specifically to support early-stage explorations in media and information aligned with Knight Foundation’s mission to support “transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts.” The goal […]
Continue ReadingAnnouncing Voyager, a Knight Foundation Prototype Grant Project - Jul 29 2015
Sponsoring Diversity Scholarships for BrazilJS
At Bocoup, we believe scholarships are an actionable way to promote a more diverse tech community and to provide direct support for under-represented groups to participate in tech events. We began offering Diversity Scholarships this year to the events we organize such as OpenVisConf, CSSConf and TXJS. With this in mind, we went beyond North […]
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- Jul 29 2015
Promovendo bolsas pela diversidade no BrazilJS
Na Bocoup, nós acreditamos que bolsas de estudo são uma forma eficaz para promover uma comunidade de tecnologia mais diversa e prover suporte direto para grupos subrepresentados em seus eventos. Neste ano, começamos a oferecer bolsas de estudos pela diversidade – em inglês: Diversity Scholarships – nos eventos que organizamos, tais como OpenVisConf, CSSConf e […]
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- Jul 07 2015
Seeing the Extensible Web Manifesto Through
Illustration by Sue Lockwood Participating in the creation of a new standard means joining listservs that look like they were put together circa 1850 and asynchronous arguments in IRC channels that span any/all timezones. It means devoting your nights and weekends to learning how to tinker with specs and fighting with professional web standards reps. […]
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