• All in the Memory -- bookkeeping services
• Arabella -- a dynamic musical duo
• Bytesmiths Editions -- large, archival, fine-art photography on unusual materials
• Bytesmiths Press -- artists' services: web design/hosting, jury slides, giclee reproductions, opening announcements, brochures, etc.
• Champagne Beadworks -- handcrafted jewelry and beadwork
• Crafted By Carol -- handcrafted jewelry and beadwork
• Dana Fontaine -- unique photography-derived art
• Dymond Graphics -- note cards, pet/people photography
• Fountains & Funktini -- glass art and more from Beth Keenan and JoAnn Rawley
• Gemini Gypsy -- Carole Good-Hanson's fused glass frames
• Mary Kollman Fine Art -- lovely floral watercolor originals
• Primrose Studio -- terra cotta switch plate covers and wall art
• Ratso's Studio -- astoundingly realistic bronze sculpture
• The Spiral Gallery -- local artists exhibit in the Oregon Cascades foothills
• The Roaming Artist -- info and resources for artists "on the road"
• Van Dyke Sepias -- Jan Van Dyke's nostalgic sepia toned photography
• Veggiemog -- life and times of Kelly O'Toole's Unimog, running on biodiesel
• Village of Willamette Arts Festival -- annual visual/performing arts festival, third weekend of September
• Whitehorse Designs -- Gwen Miller's beadwork and fused glass
• West Linn Arts Commission -- city support for the arts

Spiral Production Activity

In the spiral software production activity:

1. Developers, aided by marketing, again discover a conceptual basis for solving a problem, constrained by market requirements.

2. Again, developers take a conceptual specification and develop the product, constrained by legacy systems and market opportunity windows. However, they have two additional outputs: components that can be applied to similar concepts, and discoveries that modify the concepts upon which they develop their product.

3. In addition to assuring customer satisfaction, maintainers produce reusable test cases, and provide early and continuous feedback to the development activity.

1. Multiple feedback loops catch problems as early in the process as they can be identified.

2. Although not expressible in IDEF0 syntax, the feedback loops are negative feedback , meaning they tend to minimize the impact of the inputs, resources, and constraints. Negative feedback is a stabilizing influence.

3. Waterfall feedback tends to be positive , or amplifying feedback, due to the long periods involved. For example, developers are ramped up on another project by the time defects come in from testing, so they divert resource to bug fixing, which subsequently reduces the quality of their present work, which increases the number of defects.

4. Roles are shared: maintainers have a development responsibility, developers must understand at least some market needs.

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