Well it’s the end of an era as we pack up the office here in Brooklyn!

The move will bring a lot of changes for sure, but I’m also excited about many things that will stay the same: I look forward to continuing to work with colleagues here in New York and elsewhere (more news on that front coming soon!), continuing Dtek’s tight partnership with Bad Feather, and continuing to share ideas and inspiration with The Media Spot.

And of course, I look forward to continuing the excellent relationships Dtek has with clients in New York and around the country.

Dtek’s move to Seattle will happen in a couple of weeks. Please note that we’ll be unavailable the week of July 19.

In Seattle, we’ve found a great new coworking office space at Office Nomads in Capitol Hill. As of August 1, the new business mailing address will be:

Dtek Digital Media
Office Nomads
1617 Boylston Ave, Second Floor
Seattle, WA 98122

Here’s to smooth sailing out west, and the next chapter in Dtek’s history: 10 years and counting. Onward and upward!

Two female friends and colleagues of ours have been interviewed recently in the high-profile Lullabot “Drupal Voices” podcast series:

• Drupal Voices 95: Jen Simmons on Usability, CSS3, and Getting Bartik into D7
• Drupal Voices 100: Jack Aponte on Diversity, Power and Privilege in Open Source Communities

I’m thrilled to hear both Jen and Jack get some deserved respect, and raise the profile of women doing good work within the Drupal community and the greater technology workers community.

(And I don’t know her, but just today Ariane Khachatourians was featured talking about the DrupalChix group and women in Open Source.)

I’ve been friends with filmmakers Jason and Leigh Morfoot (aka Kinobserver) since before Dtek was a twinkle in my eye

Recently, I helped them publish their latest documentary film project, Citizen 3.0, to the Kinobserver web site. As described on the site, “CITIZEN 3.0 explores the relationship between media, technology, culture and democracy through the lens of copyright law.” In addition to effecting our society and culture at large, these issues are at the very heart of Dtek’s business.

It’s fascinating stuff, and the film features some provocative and authoritative voices who approach these topics from many different angles.

You can stream the entire film from the Kinobserver web site:
http://kinobserver.com/

Enjoy!

It’s already the 11th, but happy 2010! The new year is an obvious opportunity to reflect on what’s passed, and plan for the future. Truthfully, though, an exciting period of review and growth started a few months ago for Dtek.

With new partnerships underway, forward-thinking new projects in development, and a whole slew of adjustments in my personal life the winds of change have been blowing for a while now.

First off, Dtek’s rates hadn’t changed since 2007, so our hourly rate has now increased, and our time will now be billed in increments of 1/2 hour. (Okay, so in addition to the more imaginative changes are the less romantic ones ) Existing maintenance retainers will of course honor the quoted rate. Please inquire any time for details, or to get a quote for your next project.

We’re also overdue to overhaul this web site. (We’ve spoken with many of you already about our cobbler’s shoes!) The current incarnation of dtek.net went live way back in (gasp) 2005! It’s been modified and updated in a piecemeal way since then, and has generally served us well, but look for a shiny new version of the site this year that better represents Dtek as a company.

And many other changes are percolating…

What hasn’t changed is our commitment to provide high quality web development services for independent and progressive organizers, entrepreneurs, educators and artists. We’re grateful as always to be able to work with such inspiring folks.

Here’s to a healthy and productive year!

Though I haven’t posted here in a while (look for updates next month!), I’ve been busy working on some exciting projects. So much so, that I’ve been looking for help…

Dtek evolved to its present form a few years ago as co-founder Rhys Daunic built up a full workload of media education consulting services with The Media Spot. That made me essentially a one-man operation, though I continued to partner with similar shops and freelancers on a project-basis, chief among these being the tight partnership I have with the design and coding team at Bad Feather. Now Dtek is poised to enter a new period of growth as we’re building more substantial web sites that require more resources, code, and maintenance, as well as continuing to maintain long-term relationships with many existing clients.

So I’m thrilled to have Greg Lyle on board in a consulting role. As a developer and systems administrator with a strong Unix and Free and Open Source Software background, Greg is in a great spot to help expand the services that Dtek is offering in exactly the ways that our clients need. He’s worked with a couple of other Drupal-focused web development shops in the past, and worked on a diverse set of projects including a back-end web site for a 2008 presidential campaign.

Hopefully Greg and I will make great strides together — look for more out of Dtek from this new working relationship! But first, time for a few days off for the holiday