Join us at the Littlelines headquarters this weekend for Rails 3.1 Hackfest! What's a Rails hackfest? Well, it is a great opportunity to meet some local Rails hackers and help stabilize version 3.1 before the official release. We are opening our doors to Rails developers who want to spend a day of testing, bug-fixing, and hacking.
Even if you haven't contributed to Rails before, this is a great opportunity to meet other Rails developers in the area, learn about the Rails 3.1 code base, and give back to the Rails community. If you're in the area, please stop by and hang out!
Where: Our office 50 Chestnut Street, Suite 234, Beavercreek, Ohio
When: Saturday, July 23, 2011 9:00AM - 5:00PM (drop in anytime)
We're a visual culture. Design, Photography, and art allow us to relate to something-an idea, a color scheme, a story, an emotion, a good laugh, a moment shared, an entire movement-in a millisecond, and that's something words alone can't possibly hope to achieve. By relating, we adopt, and by adopting we share and we all know how important that word has become. Share.
In this world, we define ourselves by our associations. And that's the exact reason why we've teamed with the likes of Threadless, Big Cartel, and Adobe to sponsor Go Media's 2011 Weapons of Mass Creation Design Conference.
Check out a snippet from the site:
Weapons of Mass Creation is a young grassroots movement to inspire and enable the creative mind. We believe that good things happen when ideas and talents are shared within the community. This mentality manifests itself in the lifestyle of a Weapon of Mass Creation. A person who defies the hand they're dealt and makes stuff happen.
Once a year, we have WMC Fest. The annual gathering of this community right here in Cleveland, OH. We celebrate and showcase the cr*eative visionaries who embody this lifestyle. We bring the movement to the masses.
Some have compared WMC Fest to SXSW or the 99% Conference but with an indie/diy flavor. We aren't exactly trying to be like them, but the comparison is flattering nonetheless. It's part conference, part concert, part design show, and part festival. It's simply WMC Fest!
WMC fest is being held June 11th-12th in Cleveland, Ohio. Littlelines hopes to see you there. In the meantime, how about making your own contribution to the event? WMC fest needs your help during this final stretch, and have organized a Kickstarter campaign that allows you to become part of their success. Here's a brief note from Jeff Finley, Co-owner of Go Media:
Putting on an event of this caliber is not cheap, let me tell you! But we are doing it as frugally as possible. While we are getting lots of donations and trades, our hard expenses have grown to about $15,000 and we've raised about half that amount so far. Most of this comes from paying the out-of-town speakers and bands. This does not take into account all the local talent that is performing for much less or even donating their time for free.
Your donation DIRECTLY BENEFITS the bands, speakers, and designers.
So, why not help said bands/speakers/designers and pitch in? They've got one hell of a list of rewards for doing so, including tickets to the event. Check it out here, and we'll see you in June!
What's your Well-Being? MeYou Health can help you find out.
It's easy to get caught up in the rat race that is life. Typically our biggest sacrifice, whether we're aware of it or not, is our own personal health and well-being.
Well-being awareness is exactly what MeYou Health is trying to bring to the forefront with their new website, The Twitter Well-Being Tracker. Being somewhat health-conscious folks ourselves (hey, we try anyway), we jumped at the chance to provide the full suite of design, copywriting, illustration, and development solutions, all to do our tiny part in bringing awareness to the masses.
Visit the site to get your well-being score! While you're at it, read up on the slew of tips and tricks on ways to improve your lifestyle. Your score will start to climb in no time.
What is the Well-Being Tracker?
The Well-Being Tracker is derived from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index (WBI), a national survey that provides a comprehensive, real-time look at the U.S. public's health and well-being. The WBI is based on telephone interviews with at least 1,000 U.S. adults each day. Over one million people have been surveyed since the survey's launch in 2008, making it the nation's largest and most comprehensive look at overall well-being.
Rather in depth stuff, right? Read up more about Well being here.
The Well-Being Bot
Improving everyone's healthy consciousness, while an amazing and noble ambition in itself, wasn't quite enough for MeYou Health. Working with a bit of what we think is actual rocket science-really, it uses a vector machine supervised learning algorithm!-MeYou Health and Littlelines came up with a way to analyze all Twitter conversations via specific keywords, grouping them into an overall score of the nation's well-being.
You see, people tweet about well-being every day. Analyze enough of those tweets and you get an up-to-the-minute picture of nationwide well-being. The MeYou Health sentiment engine analyzes Americans' tweets daily by grouping them into six categories of well-being and indexing how positive or negative each conversation is. Pretty neat, huh?
To make this complex information digestible to folks like you and me, Littlelines was responsible for giving this sweet little device a host, and that host took shape in the form of the Well-Being Bot.
Head over here and be sure to follow the Well-Being Bot. He'll keep you up to date on the nation's well-being as you travel your own path towards personal wellness.
Littlelines would like to extend a special "Thank You" to MeYou Health for allowing us to be a part of such an awesome project. Here's to seeing those scores climb!
Littlelines was happy to contribute:
- Website Design
- Identity Design
- Original Icon and avatar designs
- Illustration
- Copywriting
- Ruby on Rails development
- Graphs implemented with Raphael.js
Lonny Magazine, an NYC-based online magazine with thousands of subscribers, was in search of a website redesign that reflected their core mission:
"At Lonny, we believe in making design choices that lead to personal happiness. We value individual style and independent thinking, and are convinced that inspired design can be achieved anywhere-from the smallest studio apartment to the grandest estate."
With such a similar outlook on life, we couldn't help but give them exactly what they needed. Congratulations to LonnyMag.com, who were a pleasure to work with on all fronts, on launching their newly-designed site. Check it out here.
We're excited to announce the beta launch of Sliqr. Littlelines recently helped build Sliqr.com, a web application that serves as your personal brand portfolio - letting you oversee your web presences like Facebook, Twitter, personal site or blog.
Sliqr scores your personal brand by analyzing key metrics across your Twitter, Facebook, and Google Analytics accounts, while letting you decide which metrics are most important.
Littlelines worked with our friends at Metalab to design and develop the product, from ideation through development.
