On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, the Swiss Estonian Association wanted to donate to Switzerland a hundred nest boxes to protect endangered bird species. An idea was introduced by the video and also appeared on Estonian Television and in the news media. Uptime was the main sponsor of the event.
Over the past 8 months, Äripäev (part of Bonnier Group in Estonia, business daily and news services) has developed a new methodology for sending up e-mails in partnership with the software development partner Uptime. This would take greater account of the interests of the readers and send them fewer, but better-quality, interest-based emails.
In search of IT specialists, talent must be recognized – You have to find those who are already able to „jump and lay a basketball from top to score“, but how to do it and how to recognize a talent? Uptime CTO Raimo Seero and marketing specialist Kaido Einama wrote about it in the March issue of the magazine „Director“.
On February 14th, we organized the Uptime Challenge during the Information Technology Days of the University of Tartu and anyone who wanted could try to solve some challenging programming tasks.
Uptime Challenge participants had to solve some programming tasks with best code and among the best programmers, we drew out two awards: Samsung’s 500GB SSD and weekly stock of pizza.
On March 15th, Äripäev will host the Pilvekonverents 2018 (Cloud Technology Conference), which will thoroughly discuss what these cloud technologies, which are so much discussed everywhere, actually allow. It is organized by Äripäev – Estonian business daily publishing company (part of Bonnier Group) in Tallink SPA conference center venue.
Uptime CTO Raimo Seero is reporting the charm and pain of cloud technology in practice and how the news from Äripäev are moved to the cloud.
At the end of February, Estonian Police and Border Guard Board opened a new website at www.politsei.ee, developed by the Ministry of the Interior’s Information Technology and Development Center (SMIT) with participation of Uptime and Trinidad Wiseman.
Best solvers can win Samsung 500 GB SSD and pizza for a week.
Contest ends at February 20, 2018 (00.00 GMT).
Try, it takes only twenty minutes!
Start here: www.uptime.eu/code.
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Samsung 500 GB SSD won Markus Saarniit and pizza for a week – Ervin Oro. Congratulations!
Every year, Uptime organizes a festive Christmas reception with its partners, where you can meet personally in an out-of-the-office atmosphere and have a good time to finish the year. The previous year, 2017, was completed with the concert on Teachers’ House on Raekoja Square, where singer Kadri Voorand and Estonian Voices performed in front of more than 140 guests.
A bad result in Robotex last year does not mean that you should give up and not try again. We wrote previously about how the Italian team beat the other LEGO line-ups by a long way, using the old style, but faster LEGO robot. Now the Saku team, supported by Uptime, used their own weapon – old-school LEGO – and won the battle.
In Oslo Innovation Week some Estonian and Norwegian speakers introduced e-government and e-solutions and how this is helpful for government and citizens to communicate more easily. Uptime Comperio CEO Ole-Kristian Villabø also participated and gave a presentation about best practices of digital innovation.
