We recently launched the website for www.gladteater.dk. Glad Teater is a performance group, acting school, and casting bureau for people with various disabilities. The aim is to break down taboos and prejudices about uncommon people. We like.
Their current performance VERDENS BEDSTE FORESTILLING is showing for another two days (June 24th and June 25th) at the Edison Theater in Copenhagen so make sure to get your tickets at www.gladteater.dk

Finally the official version of Drupal 7 is here!

So far the experience of working with Drupal 7 is very positive, and it is amazing what you can build with this framework.

The best thing about Drupal 7 is that so many things work out of the box, and you no longer need to install 15 extra modules to make a working website. And the whole interface has become more simple to use. Another great thing is that it loads faster than previous versions.

One thing that many people will probably miss is a rich text editor like the one used inside WordPress. Drupal 7 still ships with no editor at all.

In this world of web development things tend to change very fast. On the opposite, the work on Drupal 7 has taken such a long time, so it will be interesting to see if Drupal can keep up with the pace and requirements of other internet players.

Here is a video introduction to Drupal 7:

We look forward to using Drupal 7 in future web projects. See you at the party tomorrow!

On December 17th we hope to see you all for the opening of a photographic exhibition that we are putting up together with our landlord Bent. Bent has been working at Islands Brygge 91-93 for some 35 years but is now moving his workspace elsewhere. So for us the exhibition will work as a tribute to Bent. Please join us on December 17th at 15 hours for some Glögg. Of course the exhibition can be seen online as well: www.historierfrabryggen.dk – but remember there is no Glögg online.

Our dear friend and partner in crime Ulrik from Obey Films did this short film about the Sjælør neighbourhood in Copenhagen. We made the project website some time ago, and we still do some consulting now and then – recently we helped them connect their facebook with the website.

Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal was giving his keynote presentation on the DrupalCon Copenhagen, august 24.
He was talking a lot about the future perspectives for Drupal. In this clip, he is calculating on the release date for Drupal 7.

We are attending the Drupal conference Drupalcon in Copenhagen next week. Drupal is our favourite cms system, and the venue is really close to our office, so we are very excited. We are bringing several friends to the free unconference on the first day, so that might be something to consider if you can’t afford the conference ticket.

A website is on the way

Office view January 4th 2010..

It has become a tradition for us to write a blog post at the end of the year that sums up what we have been up to in the year passed by (2007, 2008).

If 2008 was a break-through year for Genau, 2009 was so even more. The income from jobs exploded so we ended up with an income roughly 5 times as big as previous years. Some of our work is on show in the about/portfolio section.

One of our favourite projects of 2009 was the “Os på Sjælør” project. Sjælør Boulevard is a residential area in Copenhagen most known for its heavy social and criminal reputation but things are getting better thanks to the Os på Sjælør project and other efforts. Read a previous blog post about the project.

The financial situation allowed us to expand and create our own shared office space at Bryggen 93, 2nd floor. The office fills 9 people. Genau still only consists of two people though, but the boundaries between the different companies at the place have certainly become blurred since we have been collaborating with both Christie (netseeds.dk), Ulrik, and White Walls of DK in real money projects.

Our usual underground or activist projects have been few if any this year. We see the Bryggen 93 place as such an activity though. In 2010 we want to invite you for more progressive events – a few film nights are already in the pipeline so stay updated by following us on our co-edited twitter account: @brygen93. Of course you are always welcome to drop by for coffee or a quick game of table tennis. See you in 2010!

The website for our shared work space Bryggen 93 has launched – so far just a front page with random background images. Have a look at www.bryggen93.dk