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n0tice was created by Matt McAlister.  It was developed into something actually useful and interesting by Daniel Levitt and Sarah Hartley.  And contributors Tony McCrae and Andre Moses improved it immeasurably.

We owe special thanks to several key supporters who have given it life including Graham Tackley, Andrew Travers, Sophie Turner, Jim Ralley and Claire Cunningham.

 

 

 

The front-end development is done with help from jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile.  And Twitter’s Bootstrap provide grids, navigation and other CSS utilities.

The development environment is PHP using Zend and MySQL.  We use many of the framework modules including Auth, Cache, Mail, etc.

Search is powered by Solr. In addition to site search, we use Solr to support the read API.

The API is built in Java.

Location services are provided by Google including the JavaScript API and Geocoding API. Timezone lookups are provided by geonames.

Google also provides fonts. Cabin is the primary typeface.

Versioning and deployment is managed through github, dbdeploy and Jenkins.

Amazon Web Services host the platform.  We use both EC2 and S3. In addition we cache PHP using APC and memecached.  DNS is managed by Amazon’s Route 53.

Analytics for internal use and for the noticeboards come from Chartbeat and Google Analytics.

Some of the media handling is supported by embed.ly.

Reports, events and offers are all provided by n0tice community members.  Similarly, moderation is human-powered by the community and the n0tice team.

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