Sunday, June 12, 2005

History of Open Lab, part III: people comes and goes

The first person to "go" was "Nino", the shadow former partner of Matteo Bicocchi and his Prospero's books. In fact he never showed in the office, and we got him out of Open Lab with great relief.

In 2003 we started having enough projects in order to consider getting more people to work with us. Moreover the internal task distribution was going really smoothly, and we had managed to finish quite a number of projects. In particular in the end of 2002, Roberto Bicchierai of Rem Software and myself started working together on Teamwork 2, which was to turn from asp to java, and on a Vodaphone web application, which we finished quite successfully. This came to us hrough my friend Felice Carraro of Dada; after that we produced a synchronizing aplication for scientific museums. Hence I presented Open lab to programming students, we started some job interviews, and took two stageurs, one for development and one for promotion; one of these remained (the programming gui; the "commercial" girl was just hopeless), Matteo Rossi, and is to today our best worker.
Teamwork 2 started as a three person project, but fortunately it turned into a two people one, and hence did not follow the unfortunate adventures of Openvista, a society that Rem Software did with "Sesa Group", which lasted a few months; hence Rem hired several people, among which Ameliè Ngantcha, who is going to return to our tale. Others came and went, without getting to shape a stable group.
The graphics department started occasional collaborations with Tommaso Pecchioli.

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