OpenRoad Communications is proud to be a sponsor of the 2002 Steamworks Tour de Gastown. One of Canada’s oldest and most prestigious bike races, the Tour de Gastown (formerly Gastown Grand Prix) returns to the cobbles of Water St. after a 9 year absence. OpenRoad created the Tour de Gastown website, providing cyclists and fans […]
The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) recently launched a new premiums section on their website for BC’s employer community. The site, designed and built in collaboration with OpenRoad (now OXD), allows employers to understand how classification, rate setting, and experience rating works to determine premiums with the WCB.
Gordon Ross, Vice-President of OpenRoad, recently appeared as a panelist for NewMediaBC’s Internet Marketing Special Interest Group. The panel, entitled “Accessing the Government Market: Building Bridges Between the Public Sector and the New Media Community,” discussed issues of federal and provincial government IT purchasing, as well as the dynamics of working with government at all […]
Jeff Pennal, senior developer at OpenRoad, recently spoke at the Vancouver Java Users Group on server-side Java development using the Struts framework. Jeff gave an overview of programming with the Struts framework, as well as his modification to the Struts library (Struts-stxx).
After an extensive RFP process, Volunteer Vancouver selected OpenRoad and Karo to provide web application design and development services for their Volunteer Management System project. Leaders in promoting volunteerism and strengthening the voluntary sector, Volunteer Vancouver is collaborating with Volunteer Burnaby, Volunteer Richmond Information Services, and Maple Ridge / Pitt Meadows Community Services on this […]
OpenRoad was recently awarded a major contract by the Ministry of Forests to develop a corporate reporting system that provides forest companies throughout the province with crucial timber tenure and silviculture information. This project is part of the Ministry’s VMAR initiative to move Ministry VM applications to a Java web-based environment.
Gordon Ross kicked off UBC’s lunch-time seminar series at their new downtown Robson Square campus with a talk about the “Accidental Manager”. An instructor for UBC’s Management in Digital Media Certificate Program, Gord focused on the unique challenges of digital media project management and presented the foundation required for a successful project.
OpenRoad Communications recently provided subject matter expert review services for Serebra Learning Corporation’s Java 2 Standard Edition v1.3 courseware. Serebra’s Java courseware material is used worldwide, distributed through Oracle’s education division. For more on OpenRoad’s services, please contact us.
