Ground Control to Major Linas

The Work...I Guess

I suck at coding...I just thought you should know that.

I've been here 2 weeks and I'm pretty sure I haven't accomplished anything at work.I drew some pretty pictures, and I pretend to know what I'm doing in Flash every day.

The Products 

Here they produce 2 magazines, 1 newspaper, and websites to match all. There are also a few portalai (portals) that are web-only products.

Newspaper (Laikraštis): Verslo žinios (Business News)

Magazines (Žurnalai): Verslo klasė (Business Class) ir (and) Iliustruotasis mokslas (Science Illustrated)

Portals (Portalai): cv.lt - Darbas (Jobs)


The Presentation

My presentation on the Mountain Group was held in the news room. I had three big-ass screens, all in a row and mounted on the wall, to present on. So i put up the websites for Ski and NASTAR on the stage right one, and Skiing and Warren Miller on the stage left one. In the center i put up (in reverse order for use—so the first one was on top) several flash pieces i had built to explain the brands themselves, the scrum process, Drupal, Mantis, and our whole host of open-source tools and approaches, a few screen from Skiing Interactive, and underneath it all i put up the Warren Miller trailer for Wintervention. 


I pretty much blasted through the presentation of the brands, covering the personalities and the histories of each. I tried not to linger too long on the kool-aid of open-source platforms and scrum development, and in the end i lingered over my babies, the interactive screens, and let the Warren Miller trailer headline the whole thing. It had the intended result. "Cool". 


I am building a flash reader for their print products to be read online (thanks for letting me steal your work Johnny...insert evil laugh here) and am trying to convince everyone that i should be building really cool, interactive flash pieces for editorial content. 



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