Refresh Orlando

A new website was recently brought up, as a crowd-source solution for getting businesses to press Google to invest in Fiber for Baltimore. The design is simple, one page, but could it be improved?

The iPad commercial, shown at last night’s Oscars, is now available on the Apple site.

Google is asking local governments and residents to express their interest in the fiber optic trial, and to provide information about their community. Could this be what can kick-start the stalled Orlando IT industry ?

Jimmy Gardner, from Tech Cocktail writes a short article about how a Coworking Space can be the perfect type of environment for new and bootstrapped startups. Here in Orlando, we have CoLab Orlando located in a non-assuming brick building in downtown Orlando.

John Gruber has an excellent write up of the Future of Flash and the Web.

Typekit is a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the worlds best type foundries. Using Typekit, a web designer can add a line of code to a webpage and choose from hundreds of fonts. You can now buy fonts at FontShop and host them on Typekit.

Typekit is produced by Small Batch Inc., a San Francisco-based company that has been involved in W3C working groups and the Web Standards Project as proponents and active designers of the web’s infrastructure platform. In 2009, the company announced their first round of funding led by True Ventures.

Learn the design process, of creating a koi fish illustration inspired by a tattoo.

Code for America was founded to help the brightest minds of the Web 2.0 generation transform city governments. Cities are under greater pressure than ever, struggling with budget cuts and outdated technology. What if, instead of cutting services or raising taxes, cities could leverage the power of the web to become more efficient, transparent, and participatory?

Code for America helps city governments become more transparent, connected and efficient by connecting the talents of cutting-edge web developers with people who deliver city services and want to embrace the transformative power of the web to achieve more impact with less money. Inspired in part by Teach for America, CFA works with city officials and leading web development talent to identify and then develop web solutions that can then be shared and rolled out more broadly to cities across America.

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political organization made up of web geeks, city experts, and technology industry leaders.

Early funders include the Sunlight Foundation and the Case Foundation.

Should Orlando participate in the 2012 cycle?

Refresh Orlando February 2010

This month, James May will be presenting on Subtlety in Web Design.

James May is a Senior Designer.

RSVP: Please register for Refresh Orlando: Subtlety in Web Design

Meeting Agenda
Subtlety in Web Design

We will discuss how using a little restraint can help you take your site up to 11. We will discuss proper use of effects and styles in Photoshop to help your designs achieve the right treatment without looking like a charactercher. Also we will learn how using these principles to manage the weighting of multiple things on a page to improve usability and conversion.

Short Q/A Session to follow the presentation and then Open Discussion

Seating and Presentation
The door will be open, please plan to begin to arrive at 6:15pm

Presentation will begin promptly at 7:05pm

Meeting Room:
The meeting will take place in the “Donkey Kong” conference room located directly to the right when entering the front entrance.

Parking:
Ample parking is available in the MindComet building parking lot.

Venue Host

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