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Our culture

We believe in Open Source software and Open Standards, which is about developing lean, efficient, cost-effective, license free and interchangeable software solutions. Our culture supports effective teamwork of high-performance people. This makes working at fry an adventure with freedom, personal responsibility, rewards and work-life balance achievable for each and every team member.
Our vision

Our vision

We want to stay on the edge of software innovation and be respected as the most reliable and professional full-service open source technology business around.

Giving our team real freedom to work the way they want to and time to innovate, means we will continue to consistently deliver exceptional technology and service.

We’ll ensure this is the case through seeking out feedback from our clients at the end of each project – and acting upon it!

Our ethos

We know that when people are happy they deliver their best work.

We’re serious about freedom and democracy in the workplace and because of this we’re able to attract the most talented developers from around the world into a team that looks forward to work.

At fry everyone can be themselves and this encourages honesty, openness and trust.

 Our ethos
Our community

Community

Our reliable and innovative solutions are built on Open Source technologies and we actively contribute to this software community.

fry is a premium sponsor of the Plone Foundation and we regularly sponsor the annual Plone conferences. We host the London World Plone Dayevent and regularly hold Python Code Dojos for local developers.(find out about one on Nicholas Tollervey's blog). The London iPhone Developer Group meet up regularly in our offices (check out their Linkedin group here).

fry is also a member of the following bodies: Intellect the premier Trade Association for IT companies; The Open Source Consortium; Canonical; Plone.

Our history

fry was founded in 2000 by Zahid Malik and Marcus von Scotti.

As former researchers in the Engineering department of Imperial College we held responsibility for developing the university's research tools.  At that time we were working with an incredibly new and powerful technology building the kind of web-based tools that would be taken for granted today. We were keen to form a business that incorporated the same kind of work freedom we had experienced at Imperial.

We found we also held a common interest in the work of Ricardo Semler, CEO of Brazil's fastest growing industrial business SEMCO. A leader thinker in the area of workplace democracy he inspired us to start our business based arond a very different model.

Some of fry's earliest  developments included a real-time property search engine; a wireless menu-ordering system; and one of the earliest SMS short-code marketing systems.

These days Open Source technologies and our rapid development techniques have enabled fry to create innovative solutions and the freedom to give clients what they want. This has allowed us to offer large clients the same innovative service and cutting edge thinking at a small business price tag. We are continuing to grow rapidly and organically, almost entirely through word of mouth.

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