We were recently delighted to launch our friend and neighbor The Project Room's new website at projectroomseattle.org. The site creates a digital extension of curator Jess van Nostrand's gorgeous new non-profit arts space, and takes the conversation about art Off Paper. It's a WordPress site with a full HTML5 theme.
When folks ask me what type of clients we have, I usually say that we work with good people doing good things. It's a quick way to communicate that our projects tend to lean toward non-profits and progressive organizations, often with a focus on human rights, education and the arts. That doesn't necessarily convey, however, our strong passion for local community.
The Project Room's interactive Pine Street space in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood is just up the street from Office Nomads, the coworking space where DTEK is based. Most of us live close by, too, passing TPR on a daily basis and often peeking our heads in. And Open Source advocate and OSCON co-chair Sarah Novotny, who first introduced me to Andy six months ago, is an advisor to The Project Room.
This interconnectedness made The Project Room the perfect candidate to test-drive a very rough draft of a program we've been chewing on for awhile: donating site design and development time to community partners. We're still working out the details and hope to formalize this process in 2012. We're tossing around ideas related to nomination process, site size, type of organization, location, and more. Watch this space for updates!
Meanwhile, if you live in Seattle, do pay The Project Room a visit. Andy and Kristen learned to crochet at one of their recent twice-monthly community crochet parties, and they hold open studio hours frequently. And local or not, do spend some time on the site, where the Project Room crew continues to poke at their current "Big Question", Why Do We Make Things?
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