CivicActions

If you're at the top of your game and your craft is design, engineering, project management, quality assurance, writing, animating, scoring, or administering, (and this week - ontologies), read about how we work to see if there might be a fit here. If you like what you see, pass us your bio/cv/resume at resumes(at)civicactions.com (subject: "I want to help CA change the world") and we'll circulate it amongst our team. A little about us:

Independent - We are all independent contractors. We work from our homes, our gardens, our favorite coffee houses, and our favorite vacation spots.

Values Driven - We are very issues driven (we pick our clients as they align with the personal values of members of our group).

Open - We share all works (client deliverables and internal methodologies) under public license. We open our business and talent pipeline to our team to identify new clients and new collaborators.

Positive - We strive to create attractions to retain talent and clients (no traditional lockins).

Open Licenses - We each copyright our works and license it to CivicActions LLC (and then to clients) under AGPL, GPL, and/or Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license.

More Open Licenses - When we co-create with our clients, they also license their works under AGPL, GPL, and/or CC so we are free to rip/mix/burn all of our works without encumberances, independently, as CivicActions, and/or as new groups.

Experts - We are specialists (Systems Engineers, Visual Designers, UI designers, Project Managers, Drupal Engineers, Application Specialists, Database Engineers, Security Specialists, etc.)

Affiliative - We have daily 'scrums' (calls with entire team) to share our todo list for the day (and share laughter).

Present - Our business model: we bill for time (partial hour increments). We setup practices where we are present, giving full attention to each other, our clients, and our craft.

Explorers - Team members who are very active with us are invited to a quarterly physical retreat (where we remix our values, align our vision, strengthen our bonds, recognize our perceived strengths and weaknesses, and prioritize our common agenda).

View Photos from our most recent retreats in
Amsterdam (Oct 2005, Aug 2006), Vancover (Feb 2006) and Sonoma (June2006).