Artful.ly’s basic functions for selling tickets, tracking donations, and managing contacts are already being used by 100+ independent artists and small arts organizations. Later this week we’ll release a refreshed interface design that makes the whole app much more intuitive and downright hot.
Now that we’re all dressed up, we’re going out! Hittin’ the towns [...]
How many times have I written encouraging words about how easy disaster planning can be, how simple we can make it, how not very frightening it can be?
Well, our friends at SouthArts have done me one better (way more than one, actually) and have been working tirelessly for years on an amazing project, ArtsReady, that [...]
Made up of representatives from six arts organizations, the ATHENA Tix Design Steering Group poured over copious notes taken from our Community Design Sessions and evaluated what made sense to include in version 1.0 of our software.
One of the components of the design process of our open source ATHENA software (of which ATHENA Tix is one module) has been the use of Community Design Sessions. We convened folks from three very different arts communities to tell us what exactly their dream ticketing software would look like.
A True Story of Two Real Fractured Atlas Research Fellows
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The Agents have been called to a revolution in a mid-western state or small Middle Eastern country. Their destination is undisclosed. Whether they are there to quell or instigate is unclear. Either way, their services are needed urgently.
Before departing for [...]
A True Story of Two Real Fractured Atlas Research Fellows
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The ATHENA outpost, once a windowless cube - its dry-erase boards blank, bleak, and barren, like a frozen tundra - has accumulated the litter of intelligence gathering. Agents Juneau-Vogel and Ruth have decoded reams of intel. Their analysis has produced [...]
A True Story of Two Real Fractured Atlas Research Fellows
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Agents Juneau-Vogel and Ruth have been embedded with Fractured Atlas for months as covert operators on the ATHENA mission. They have conducted extensive field work - reconnaissance of arts managers in their non-profit habitats, rendezvous with informants, and good old [...]
A True Story of Two Real Fractured Atlas Research Fellows
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At 0900 hours, Agents Ruth and Juneau-Vogel arrived at Fractured Atlas headquarters for their assignment debrief. Deputy Cynova met the agents at the door and escorted them through an office abuzz with well-caffeinated employees cheerfully chatting on wireless headsets.
They [...]
A True Story of Two Research Fellows in One Particularly Chilly Room at Fractured Atlas
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THE AGENTS
Name: Heather Ruth
Training: Veteran Arts Fundraiser. Previously, American Federation of Arts, ArtTable, and covert operations. Future assignments are classified.
Age: Unknown
Rating: Awesome
Name: Selena Juneau-Vogel
Training: Grad student at NYU Wagner School of Public [...]
In my last post, I said that Open Source is as much a philosophy as a legal construct. As a legal construct, Open Source is clear. The terms of a given Open Source license (like ours) are explicitly detailed in its text.
Pegging down the philosphy of Open Source is a bit harder. The Open Source Initiative [...]
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