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Next round of logos
If you happen to have any comments on these new designs, please leave them! I may form a small team of people to whittle down these designs into a final set of 1-3 logos. Please leave a comment if...
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Congratulations to our Summer of Code Students!
This year’s Summer of Code participants have been announced. For the MetaBrainz Foundation, we will have these four students hacking: Roman Tsukanov (Gentlecat): After having made a name for himself...
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Nearly final round of logos!
Most of the logo decisions have been made and we’re ironing out the last details of font placement. Open questions are: What text placement do we like? Which of the new AcousticBrainz logos we we like?...
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Moving more quickly now, here is yet another round of logos!
Based on the last round of feedback, here is another round: MusicBrainz_logos_13-05-15 If something isn’t being shown, you can assume that it isn’t really up for discussion anymore. (Except perhaps for...
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First round of Cover Art Archive logos
Here is the first set of logos for the Cover Art Archive: CoverBrainz_logo_16-05-15 Thoughts? Leave a comment, please!Filed under: MetaBrainz
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New MetaBrainz site, new look and Live Data Feed access tokens
If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll be aware that we’ve been working on a complete overhaul of our branding and the look and feel of our web sites. While we still have a few minor adjustments to...
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Team change
Ian (ianmcorvidae), our senior developer on the MusicBrainz project, has decided to leave the project due to personal reasons. I’m sad to see a very skilled engineer leave our team — Ian has done a...
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Restructuring MusicBrainz’ management
In the recent past, the MusicBrainz community has become more fractured with evident tension rising between members of the community, the dev team and myself. I’ve been struggling with trying to find a...
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Creating a paid community manager position
I’m slowly sifting through the community feedback comments and I’m increasingly falling behind in my tasks for managing MusicBrainz and all of the projects of the MetaBrainz Foundation. It has become...
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New Community Manager: Freso
Hello Brainzers! Following up on the last post, I am now hired as the “MetaBrainz Community Manager”. This means that you should see me far more often in the forums, here on the blog, and on IRC. Just...
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August Community Revisit
Ohoi m’hearties, it’s time for the first monthly Community Revisit, where we’ll revisit what happened in MetaBrainzLand during the last month. Ready for the ride? Leggo! The primary thing happening...
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Roman Tsukanov joins the MetaBrainz team
I’m pleased to announce that last week we officially hired Roman Tsukanov, AKA Gentlecat to be a part time developer for MusicBrainz! Gentlecat has already established himself firmly in our community:...
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Recap of the MusicBrainz Summit 15
From left→right (top) chirlu, reosarevok, ruaok, Freso, (bottom) Leftmost, alastairp, Gentlecat, bitmap, zas, and LordSputnik. Special guest on the laptop monitor: caller#6. A couple of weeks ago (Oct....
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New business relations guru: Christina Smith
I am pleased to announce that I’ve just hired our first person responsible for looking after the day-to-day business operations of MetaBrainz! Christina Smith, a Canadian who also lives in Barcelona,...
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Notifications and messaging in MetaBrainz projects
During the last MusicBrainz summit in Barcelona we decided to start working on finding possible ways to implement two features that have been requested for a long time: Messaging between users...
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State of the Onion: MetaBrainz
In the past few weeks we’ve been hit with several traffic increases to MusicBrainz which is putting considerably more strain on our aging infrastructure than we’re happy with. If it seems that we’re...
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Sophie Goossens joins the MetaBrainz board of directors (and more!)
I’m pleased to announce that Sophie Goossens, an attorney in London, has joined the board of directors of the MetaBrainz Foundation. Sophie specializes in intellectual property law and has ties to the...
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Desperate times…
… call for desperate measures. After a month of trying to get power to our new office, I’ve given up. I busted out the solar panel, a small battery and a charge controller: We now have a solar powered...
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