One of the things I love the best about my workplace is the philanthropic heart we seem to have as a whole. For years, Pop Labbers have partnered with different non-profit organizations in order to reach out to others and give back to the community.

This holiday season, Pop Labs adopted a refugee Karenni-Burmese family through the Interfaith Ministries of Houston. The Karenni are part of a group that has escaped from Burma (also known as Myanmar). These people have fled a military regime that the Bush administration had singled out as one of the most brutal in the world. (more…)

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The following post will be be a double hitter. Rather then two separate posts on the same event, we’ve commissioned two of our team leads (Jillian & Lori) who attended last night’s Refresh Houston meeting with Matt Mullenweg at our offices.

A Pre-Holiday Treat

Santa came early this year, in the form of our good friend Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt), founder of blogging platform Wordpress and Chief BBQ Taste Tester of Automattic (just kidding… sort of).

Matt, armed with one of Pop Labs’ famous margaritas, delivered an informative and entertaining Q&A for Refresh Houston. Having seen Matt last year at his HTC presentation, I thought that maybe this year’s presentation/gab fest was going to be similar. Talk about the future of open source. Talk about online liberties. That sort of thing. (more…)

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UPDATE: Team Dirty Pop placed 1st in Formula 1 and Team Pop Rocks placed 3rd in Stock Car! Great job!

With an early start, visits from our non profits, and few bumps in the technical road, we made it through the competition! Pop Labs was proudly represented by two out of the six participating teams this Saturday in the Air Houston competition held by Knowbility:

Team Dirty Pop, (Formula One Division) consisting of Jillian, Davis, and Jairo recreated Clayton Library Friends’ website to be timeless with the feeling of rich history.

Team Pop Rocks, (Stock Car Division) consisting of Jackie, Stefanie, Kimberly, and Bruce created a fresh site for the Ms. Wheelchair America organization in a glitzy pageant manner. For each of us being a first time competitor in AIR, we learned quite a bit about making the web accessible with hot keys, colorblind contrast, and more. Our wonderful contact at Ms. Wheelchair America, Angela, brought our team pageant goodies including tiaras and crowns!

Judging has begun and will be announced at the awards banquet next month. Stay tuned for details!

Team Dirty Pop with our Clayton Library 'Friend' Barbara, who was a fantastic cheerleader!

Team Pop Rocks Gets Crown'd for a Day!

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