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On behalf of the entire LAIKA Information Technology department, it is my great pleasure to announce the release of a number of projects developed by the Information Systems group:

• Athenaeum — A “live” web view of the contents of a Delicious Library
• Growl Notifier — A plugin for CruiseControl.rb that sends build notifications to one or more Growl daemons.
• Linen — A framework for building command-line interfaces
• TextMate Bundle — Some of us use TextMate. This bundle includes some helpful commands and snippets that we wrote.
• ThingFish — A network-accessable datastore with extensible metadata
  Please note that the ThingFish release is alpha quality, and much has changed between the current download and trunk. Watch for a new release Real Soon™

These projects were all developed to fit needs within our organization, but designed to be useful outside LAIKA as well. They’re released under the BSD license, and are therefore free to use, in every sense of the word.

Where To Get It

The primary source for LAIKA Open Source software is opensource.laika.com. This is a Trac instance, and is the main point of contact for all LAIKA open source projects. Check here first. File bugs here. Read documentation here :)

Downloads will also be hosted at RubyForge, so any of our projects that are available as gems will be installable via the normal gem mechanism. You can view our project page at laika.rubyforge.org and download our files at here.

About LAIKA

LAIKA is an animation studio based in Portland, Oregon (USA). We are currently working on two feature films and a large number of commercial projects. More information is available at laika.com

About LAIKA IS

LAIKA’s Information Systems group is a team of programmers, database administrators, and tech writers inside the Information Technology department. We make the shiny tools that help the rest of LAIKA do their jobs more easily, ease the sharing of information between groups, and solve mission-critical problems (like picking a place to go to lunch).

We believe in open source software. Many of the tools we use in-house are open source, and we feel strongly that we should give back whenever possible.

LAIKA’s IS department is:

• Ben Bleything
• Jeff Davis
• Michael Granger
• Steven J. Hall
• Jeremiah Jordan
• Myra Lavenue
• Mahlon E. Smith
• Anthony Roberts
• Kim Wallmark

How to Contact Us

If you’ve got problems with the code, please file appropriate bugs in our Trac instance. If you’ve got general questions or comments, please email opensource AT laika, dot com.