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Exjinn Sup­port Ser­vices is com­mit­ted to open con­ver­sa­tion about its prod­ucts and services.

Exjinn believes tech­nol­ogy is art, and art takes many forms, and with­out the guid­ance pro­vided by other artists our pas­sions would not reach as many peo­ple as it could. Orga­ni­za­tions like Pigeon Arts are an invalu­able resource for the Philadel­phia arts com­mu­nity, and Jin­n­Fire is very proud to be the first mem­ber of it’s spon­sor­ship program.

Mar­tin Luther King Day work­shop for fam­i­lies affected by homi­cide & domes­tic vio­lence. Image cour­tesy of the Philadel­phia Inquirer.

With in depth pri­vate or group based art instruc­tion & work­shops run by Jesse White, artist & owner, Pigeon Arts has pro­vided cre­ative pro­gram­ming to more than 180 indi­vid­u­als of all ages, and back­grounds. Pigeon Arts pro­vides a wide range of cre­ative pro­grams for the gen­eral pub­lic, life-long artists, as well as spe­cial com­mu­ni­ties and organization.

Some of their pro­grams include pro­mot­ing heal­ing for fam­i­lies affected by homi­cide & domes­tic vio­lence, and to other disenfranchised/marginalized com­mu­ni­ties includ­ing: Les­bian, Gay, Bisex­ual and Trans­gen­der indi­vid­u­als, and men­tal health diag­nosed, devel­op­men­tally dis­abled, drug & alco­hol depen­dent and chron­i­cally home­less consumers.

Times are tight eco­nom­i­cally, and while we under­stand this, the impor­tance of qual­ity arts edu­ca­tion can never be over­stated. With many schools cut­ting arts pro­grams, orga­ni­za­tions like Pigeon Arts are worth your invest­ment. Please see their spon­sor­ship page for details on lev­els of spon­sor­ship and the perks of each giv­ing level.

If you are in the Philadel­phia area and inter­ested in arts edu­ca­tion for your­self, a friend or your orga­ni­za­tion please con­tact Jesse White for details.

You may also con­sider pur­chas­ing a print of Jesse’s amaz­ing art work as these sales also pro­vide valu­able support.

Procur­ing inex­pen­sive and effi­cient soft­ware at home can be a chal­lenge, but there are many ways to put together a set of appli­ca­tions that suit indi­vid­ual needs. This process becomes a bit trick­ier when applied to busi­nesses, espe­cially those just start­ing out or with lim­ited bud­gets. For many com­pa­nies, out­fit­ting offices with a host of brand-name, pri­vate soft­ware pro­grams and licenses is sim­ply unaf­ford­able. And the use of pirated or ques­tion­ably acquired copies puts busi­nesses at risk — not a good move whether just start­ing out or well-established. Luck­ily for busi­ness own­ers, project man­agers, and any­one with a pro­fes­sional inter­est in con­nect­ing their employ­ees with basic qual­ity soft­ware appli­ca­tions, the open source com­mu­nity is com­mit­ted to the devel­op­ment, sup­port, and improve­ment of pro­grams that are often just as good, if not bet­ter, than their big-name coun­ter­parts.
     Case in point: the Microsoft Office suite. A pro­pri­etary com­po­nent of the company’s Win­dows oper­at­ing sys­tem, MS Office pro­vides busi­nesses across the coun­try, and indeed across the globe, with sim­ple tools for every­day tasks in the work­place. Most com­puter users are famil­iar with Word, Excel, Pow­er­point, and the var­i­ous other appli­ca­tions that make up what was one her­alded as the height of effi­ciency and con­ve­nience. These days, MS Office is sim­ply at the height of profit, charg­ing exor­bi­tant amounts for pur­chase and com­mer­cial use. What’s more, many users find the appli­ca­tions lack­ing in terms of capa­bil­ity, user inter­face, and incor­po­ra­tion with other pro­grams and tools. So why pay a high price for a poor prod­uct?
     Some busi­ness own­ers stick to the old standby because they’re not aware that there are other options. This sense of being “locked in” to the Microsoft machine is a tes­ta­ment to the qual­ity of the corporation’s mar­ket­ing efforts, but it is lit­tle more than smoke and mir­rors. The open source com­mu­nity has many answers to the MS Office suite, which prac­tice and encour­age free use, directly view­able and cus­tomiz­able code, sim­ple and intu­itive user inter­faces, and sound con­struc­tion able to mesh seam­lessly with stan­dard for­mats and func­tions.
     One of the strongest and most well-supported offer­ings from the open source com­mu­nity is the aptly-named Open Office, avail­able for a vari­ety of plat­forms and able to sup­port over 40 lan­guages. This suite fea­tures an assort­ment of basic “pro­duc­tiv­ity tools” that cover the vast major­ity of basic busi­ness oper­at­ing and can com­pletely replace MS Office pro­grams. Open Office includes Writer, a word pro­cess­ing pro­gram; Calc, a fully-functional spread­sheet appli­ca­tion sim­i­lar to Excel; Impress, the open source answer to Pow­er­point; Base, which is an Access-like data­base man­age­ment pro­gram; Draw, an appli­ca­tion for basic vec­tor illus­tra­tion and design; and Math, for use in the cre­ation and mod­i­fi­ca­tion of equa­tions. With this pow­er­ful set of effec­tive tools, busi­nesses on a bud­get and those just get­ting started can frus­tra­tion and expense of MS Office alto­gether and start out on the right foot with open source applications.