1.       Intridea Develops Oil Reporter App

2.       Developers' Perspective: Oil Reporter

3.       The Future of Disaster Response Apps

4.       New Hire Spotlight: Pete Jackson

5.       RecentEvents

6.       UpcomingEvents

Intridea develops robust and customweb and mobile applications for businesses, non‐profits and users around the world.This year we have had two opportunities to create applications thatassist in disaster and crisis relief efforts.

Early this year in the aftermath of the devastatingearthquake in Haiti, Intridea donated its services to create Tradui, a mobileCreole‐Englishtranslator designed to help on‐the‐ground aid workers in the midst ofthe crisis.

Then, in April, the Deep Horizon disaster struck. In justthree days, our team of talented developers created Oil Reporter(http://www.oilreporter.org), a mobile application that enables peoplealong the Gulf Coast to report on affected areas of the oil spill usingtheir iPhones and Android devices. Collectively, these reports provideauthorities with a “living” map of where beaches, wildlife and wetlandsare being impacted.

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It started off innocently enough;it was just like any other Tuesday at the office when suddenly I got thecall:

Secret Agent Chris: We have a job for you. We need acombination mobile and web application built in three days' time.

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By creating mobile applications fordisaster response efforts, Intridea has been able to empower residents,business owners and officials from governments and NGOs in thesedevastated areas to be a part of the solution. We are beginning tounderstand the emerging and dire need for location‐based mobile applications in therelief and disaster response field.

To further meet these types of needs, Intridea is workingon a white‐labelsolution for location‐based mobile apps so that they can be developed anddeployed even more rapidly as part of a comprehensive crisis responseeffort.

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Pete Jackson recently joinedIntridea as our Director of Client Services. Pete helps ensure ourprojects are delivered on-time, on-budget, with great quality, and withgreat client satisfaction.

Formerly Vice President of Engineering at Kajeet, Inc.,Pete is an active member of the Rails community. He has been building anddelivering web and mobile-based solutions since 1995. His technicalpassions include geospatial programming, the VoteFu Rails plug-in,anything to do with jQuery, and the fanatical removal of cruft.

·        SeveralIntrideans spoke at RailsConf in Baltimore. Jeremy McAnally presented"Rails 3 Deep Dive,"Michael Bleigh spoke on "The Present Future of OAuth," and Flip Sasser gave a talk on "Persistence Smoothie: BlendingSQL and NoSQL in Rails Applications."

·        FlipSasser also gave a presentation at Ignite RailsConf entitled, "IThink You Should Probably Have Strong Opinions."

·        DaveNaffis and Thadd Selden attended E3 in Los Angeles to promoteGamestreamer.

·        PingYu spoke at RubyConf China inShanghai on June 26th.

·        MichaelBleigh will be giving a talk titled, "The Interoperable Web:Pipedream or Prognostication?" at Ruby Midwest, whichis taking place on July 16th and 17th in Kansas City.

·        Intrideais sponsoring "OMGWTFBBQ,"a barbecue dinner following the first day of Ruby Midwest.

·        Michaelwill also be speaking about "Upgrading to Rails 3" at theO'Reilly Open Source Convention on July 22nd in Portland, OR.

·        Markyour calendars for Ruby Hoedown, aFREE conference taking place on September 3rd and 4th in Nashville!