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Office Photo of the Week

Published by jthornsby on December 16, 2011 in POW!. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

This week, WANdisco’s management team came over from California to visit the Sheffield, UK, office, so we took some time out from finishing off the latest and greatest release of uberSVN, to have our friend Matt Lollar take some photographs of the entire WANdisco team together. The Yorkshire Post published their favourite earlier in the week, but in the office we’re big fans of the Electric Work’s slide, so we just had to share this photograph of the team stood in front of the slide!

2011 has been a great year for WANdisco and the Subversion community, and the company has really grown since our last team photo. A big welcome to all our new starters!

Office Photo of the Week

Published by jthornsby on December 9, 2011 in POW! and WANdisco. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

This week, we received our first present of the holiday season at the WANdisco office, from our friends at Huston Grey: a kit to build our very own office gingerbread house! We know it isn’t the holiday season yet, but we couldn’t help ourselves – check out our house-building efforts below (our Subversion Sherpa is a fan!)

Thanks to Clare MacKenzie and the Huston Grey team, for helping us get into the holiday spirit!

Office Photo of the Week

Published by jthornsby on December 2, 2011 in POW! and WANdisco. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Movember is officially over! At WANdisco, Team MANdisco have been hard at work all month, growing mustaches to raise funds for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. At the time of writing, WANdisco has raised a whopping £245 for these charities! Thank you to everyone who donated and took part in Movember! And, finally, thank you to Matt Lollar, who took these great photos documenting WANdisco’s Movember 2011 efforts!

(If you’ve forgotten how Team MANdisco used to look, check out our Pre-Movember photo!)

GIST Meetup!

Published by jthornsby on November 11, 2011 in POW! and WANdisco. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

This week we attended a meetup with the guys from the GIST Foundation. The GIST Foundation is a knowledge sharing organisation for the digital / tech community. This meetup was focused on apps developed for the Sheffield Appathon – a competition for students in Sheffield.

The winning App Solar Helper was beautifully designed with an impressive commercial strategy. The guys behind it – Ste Prescott, Rumning Du, Jonathan Barker and Michael Wain did a great job, and we can’t believe they’re only in their second year of university! We know they’ll go far in the future. Thanks GIST, for giving exciting young talent a platform to showcase their work! After the presentations we all went for a curry and a pint. Can’t wait to see everyone at the next meetup!

Happy (belated!) Halloween from WANdisco

Published by jthornsby on November 4, 2011 in POW! and WANdisco. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

This year, we celebrated Halloween with a party at our UK office in the Electric Works, and enjoyed some spooky cocktails, Halloween sweets, and even had a go on the helter skelter and Skull Coconut Shy! Thanks to Spice Yorkshire and Themed Evenings, for all the Blood Punch and Black Velvet cocktails, and the great decorations!

WANdisco Go Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Published by jthornsby on October 28, 2011 in POW! and WANdisco. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

At WANdisco, we released our inner pink today in support of the 50,000 people in the UK who are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. We spent Pink Friday in our best pink attire, eating pink cupcakes and buying raffle tickets, all for a good cause! Money raised from the Pink Friday fundraising campaign goes towards helping fund vital services, including the helpline, support groups for people who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, and information points in hospitals. The Breast Cancer Campaign have plenty of other events lined up, so visit their website now to find out more! Here’s WANdisco’s marketing team, rocking the pink look for Breast Cancer Awareness!

POW! = Photo Of Week!

Published by jthornsby on October 21, 2011 in General, POW! and WANdisco. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

We believe the WANdisco office is a pretty cool place to work, so we thought we would give a small window into our world through POW!

POW! = Photo Of Week! We know it should really be POTW (photo of the week) but I’m sure you’ll agree ‘POW!’ sounds way better. We also agreed that having the word ‘POW’ without an exclamation mark just wasn’t right.

This is Mark, our technical writer, taking the slide down to reception. Yes you read that right, we have a slide in our building!