Small Society

Small Society, based in Portland, Oregon, is a small agency with a passion for the iPhone platform, dedicated to helping organizations bring great ideas to life.

While members of our team have been developing iPhone applications since the release of the SDK in March 2008, the company has its origins in August 2008 with the Obama ’08 for iPhone initiative.

Raven Zachary, a technology analyst and iPhone evangelist, was asked by the Obama Campaign to assemble and lead a core team to quickly define, develop and launch the iPhone application to support Obama’s run for the White House. Raven chose Jonathan Wight, a trusted friend and developer with over a decade of Cocoa experience, to lead the development effort.

Both Raven and Jonathan continued to work both together and independently on iPhone projects after the campaign, and remained close. The team found yet another like-minded individual at the second iPhoneDevCamp, an event founded by Raven, and the largest iPhone developer conference (other than Apple’s own WWDC). Andrew Pouliot and the Portland crew won the “best satellite app” contest, and Raven had found new talent in his home town. Additionally, Jonathan also won an award for his Open Source contribution to the community as founder of TouchCode, an iPhone open source repository of modules, such as TouchJSON and TouchXML, now used by thousands of iPhone applications.

It suddenly became clear that it was time to harness this momentum, and create a business. Raven reached out to user experience guru, marketing maven and Portland agency veteran James Keller to round out the team. Soon thereafter, the company was born.

The first “official” day of work brought them all together to meet for the first time in the train station in downtown Portland. With the train out of service, all four piled onto a bus (yes, a bus) to begin a week-long tour of the West Coast to meet with new and prospective clients. Most spare moments in that first week were spent trying to come up with the perfect company name. Having spent a week debating name options, the team settled on Small Society - and the rest is history.

Small Society is now a company of seven united by its love of Indian food and our belief that if an iPhone application is well made, it can change a business, change a life, or even help to change the world.

Website:

http://www.smallsociety.com

Address:

Main St
Portland, Oregon, United States

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