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CS Tech Release 5 - Eagle

Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in Tech Team | No Comments »

  The CS Tech team has put out the final release of the Alaska Collective.  Included in this release: Features & Fixes General • Menu options on each page are now centered. ...

CS Tech Release 4 - Denali

Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in Tech Team | No Comments »

  For the fourth release, these are the changes that have gone live on the site today! New features: A new chat system has been created! Check it out at www.couchsurfing.com/chat.html ...

Let the Swatting Begin

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Tech Team | No Comments »

Bug week has begun. The CS Tech Team is working hard this week to eliminate as many bugs as possible from the system. They started yesterday, and have fixed an impressive number of bugs already. List ...

Caribou Tech Release

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Tech Team | No Comments »

The CouchSurfing tech team has just released their third update of the Alaska Collective. Dubbed “Caribou” after the animal and the Alaskan town, this release adds functionality across the site. Some of the most noticeable ...

Tech Team Alaska Collective – Release #2

Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Tech Team | No Comments »

The Tech Team has released their second tech brief of the collective. This is a culmination of the work of many people, both here at the collective and in remote teams around the world. View Tech Release #2 ...

Collective Week(s) in Review

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in General, Participants, Tech Team | No Comments »

It is the beginning of my fourth week, and a lot has happened since I arrived. We rolled out a tech release package, launched group RSS feeds,  witnessed several great presentations, started several of our large projects, and ...

Tech Team Alaska Collective First Release

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in General, Tech Team | No Comments »

As part of this Collective, we have changed the way we release tech updates to the site. For the first time ever, we are rolling updates into release packages. This makes it easy for everyone to see what has been ...

Down Time, Groups, and New Members

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in General, Membership, Tech Team | No Comments »

You may have noticed that CouchSurfing was having some problems over the past few days. If you got the "Site Temporarily Down" message every other time you tried to visit the site, you weren't alone. The start of ...

Introduction and first impressions

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Participants, Tech Team | No Comments »

Hello everyone, My name is Walter Heck and I'm one of the tech team members that will be working their asses off for you this summer. I just arrived in Alaska last Saturday and wanted to introduce myself and give you ...