News Archive

We will be closing the Egressive office between 24 December 2011 and 8 January 2012 to give our staff a well earned rest. 

As usual, we will have staff on call over weekends and public holidays.  We will be providing support during our normal hours for the business days of Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 December and Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 January, however our staff levels will be reduced as this period is traditionally very quiet.

I'm a bit slow off the mark to post this, but we at Egressive are thrilled to welcome our Jacky's daughter, India Lee, born 18 October, to the Egressive family - mum and daughter are doing well!

Egressive director Dave Lane has been elected President of the New Zealand Open Source Society.  Dave was one of the founding members of the society, and has been actively involved with the society throughout its existence, in both a personal capacity and through Egressive. 

From today, the new Stronger Christchurch site, developed by the Christchurch City Council's able web design team is live. It offers information to residents of (and visitors to) Christchurch who might be affected by various repair activities and the associated changes from the norm (e.g. road detours) that accompany them. The site is built on Egressive's Drupal starter package, and is hosted on Egressive's Christchurch-based hosting infrastructure.

The Egressive crew has been fortunate to escape the recent quakes largely unscathed. Our hosting services were unaffected and continued to operate as usual.  We switched our phones over to our backup system on the afternoon of Monday 13 June, but everything was back to normal by Tuesday morning.  Please let us know if your IT systems have been affected and you require assistance.

It's all happening within the Egressive family! We're pleased to welcome Annie and Malc Locke's new addition, Elliot Chellew, who arrived a bit ahead of schedule on 23 May! Mother, son, father and sister are all doing well.  All the best to them from all of us at Egressive.

Following an arduous search, we have found our new Accounts Administrator. Egressive would like to welcome Jacky Wither to the team. She brings with her strong accounting skills, an impressive array of high-performance athletic endeavours, and a winning personality. Moreover, if her first day is any indication, she'll keep us and any delinquent payers in line... which is just what we need. Jacky is taking the reigns while Helen, our Accounts Administrator until very recently, attends to the obligations of impending motherhood!

Helen Campbell, our Accounts Administrator, is now on parental leave.  We'll miss her sage advice, the efficiency and organisation she has brought to our accounts work and her unshakeably sunny outlook on life, while she is concentrating on more important things!

All Egressive staff send our very best wishes to Helen and Antony, and we can't wait to meet the new addition to the Campbell family.

Egressive is now up and running from our "backup office" (one of our homes which has power and internet access), and we're available to provide support for any of our customers needing it. 

Requests for assistance are already rolling in, and we're addressing those. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have concerns about your systems or websites - we're ready to help. We're also back to work on development projects that were underway before the latest quake.

Egressive staff and their families are all safe. 

Egressive will be closed today, 23 February 2011 so that staff can provide assistance to family and neighbors.

At this stage, all of our web hosting services have run uninterrupted and should continue to do so.

We will review the situation in Christchurch today and provide updates to customers as soon as we can.

Many thanks to our good friends at ViaStrada for providing us with temporary accommodation while the status of our building, Kenton Chambers, remains in doubt. They've welcomed us most kindly, and have been great in incorporating us into their very smart offices, only a block from our former location.