Monday, 22 April 2013
Do you have an iPhone or Apple gear capable of browsing the web that you're not using much? You can help OttawaJazzScene.ca make the best website experience possible for all our Apple-using visitors.
OttawaJazzScene.ca is currently updating our website. We want to make sure it works very well with Apple devices, including iPhones and iPads. To do so, we need to to have Apple equipment to test our website improvements with on an ongoing basis.
Do you have Apple gear you're no longer using? Have you switched to Android or Blackberry? Or do you have an Apple Mac you're no longer using? By donating your underused gear (or loaning it long-term, or selling it at an affordable price - our budget is really limited) you can help us deliver the best possible experience to OttawaJazzScene.ca's visitors, including Apple users.
If you can help in any way or have any questions please email Brett.Delmage. Thanks for helping contribute to our improved website experience for all users.
(At OttawaJazzScene.ca we extensively use Free/Libre Open Source Software, including the Linux operating system for our workstations and Internet servers, OpenOffice and LibreOffice for office applications, Joomla for our website content management system, and LimeSurvey for surveying, and more. As well as being fully customizable, it works very well, and helps keep our costs low. Anyone interested in finding out more about Free/Libre software is welcome to contact us for more info on getting started.)
Monday, 22 April 2013
OttawaJazzScene.ca requires a graphic designer to help us with some design work in the next month or two. We do not have a big budget but we aren't expecting someone to do work 'for exposure' either.
Great listening skills, ability to creatively implement concepts, willingness to meet in-person (central Ottawa area), and competency in Adobe Illustrator and other design tools are all essential.
If you are interested in this opportunity or know someone who is, please email Brett Delmage with name and email contact info only. Please respond no later than May 1, 2013.
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OttawaJazzScene.ca is the leading online news publication dedicated to live jazz and improvised music performance in Ottawa-Gatineau. We have been publishing since 2009, as a website and a free weekly email newsletter to our subscribers.
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Brett Delmage
Publisher, photojournalist, writer, dishwasher
I have been writing about things that matter, and issues I am passionate about since I was in university. In the 1980s I wrote the first national magazine column about the wireless digital computer communications systems that Canadian radio amateurs (“hams”) were pioneering - decades before smartphones existed. In the 1990s I moved to writing articles for, and editing, newsletters about improving cycling in Ottawa. In 1997, I published my first website. I was writing reports and recommendations for a citizen's advisory committee of Ottawa City Council in 2001. (A city councillor once complained that my report to City Council was “too professional.” What could I have done... write less clearly?)
I've been a journalist ever since university, on many different topics, and am a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists. I started writing about jazz in 2008.
I discovered jazz in the 1980s, in search for music that was both more complex and more fun than what I'd been listening before.
Justin Duhaime is a composer, guitarist, improviser, arranger, teacher and writer. He has performed at The Ottawa Jazz Festival, The Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, The Ottawa Folk Festival, and on CBC Radio. Justin’s musical endeavours began in 2001, when he bought his first guitar at the age of 12 with money saved from his allowance. From then on he taught himself how to play and compose, eventually going to Carleton University and graduating with a bachelor of music degree with a high honours distinction in June of 2012.
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