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Plugged In Enterprises, Continued
A typical week at Plugged In Enterprises consists of a mix of developmental activities and actual paid work. In addition to visiting local high-tech companies like Macromedia and Wired, PIE sometimes hosts technologists who come in to teach the employees a particular skill. Recent visitors have given tutorials on Perl and Dreamweaver, and they're hoping to get some developers in to show them how to use Flash. So far, the company has concentrated on the design aspect of website building, rather than programming, system administration, or marketing. They typically work on Pentium computers running Windows 95 and Power Mac 8500s, using programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. Their own website used to be hosted in-house, but they moved it off-site when an intruder broke into their server. Now, a local programmer hosts the Plugged In site on his own machine, which they have FTP access to. Their paid web work has come from a variety of sources. They've worked on websites for a bank in Florida, an auto parts dealer, and also sub-contracted to do small portions of large websites for high-tech Silicon Valley companies. A lot of the contracts come from the good press that their company, and the community center, gets. Others come through the more typical networking and want-ad route through which many web companies and professionals find work. Given their roots in the local community, it's not surprising that PIE maintains a number of community-oriented projects, as well. epa.net is a website that provides information on, and resources for, the East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park communities, including business directories and a history of East Palo Alto. They also worked on the website for the Forever Young Foundation, an organization started by Steve Young of the San Francisco 49ers to promote children's health and development, and of course the web site for the Plugged In community center. Both of these projects are aimed at helping less-powerful communities reap the benefits of the technology which is being developed down the road and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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