• 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

Example Team 3: CICO

* This was not the same consultant who "fixed" the tool. So, about 1.20-1.25 headcount at consultant rates went into source code management on a total project size of 10 developers. (The third team of 1 developer didn't use the team programming tool, or the time spent by the builder would have been greater.)

Pitfalls

• Only one team member knew how to do builds.

• The tool itself was really not ready for commercial use.

• The tool did not prevent developers -- smart ones -- from repeatedly making mistakes that required restoring backup tapes.

• The overall structure of the code module tree was echoed in an enormous, matching, directory tree structure. It was very cumbersome to restructure the tree.

• The tool maintainer found it far easier to bypass the tool in Smalltalk and make manual edits to the code repository files. He taught some fellow team members to take the same approach. (Subject of a previous horror story.)

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