The Company

Founded in San Francisco, California, in 1999, Six Feet Up, Inc. is a private woman-owned company that develops custom open source web applications to help manage business online.

Six Feet Up, Inc has grown into a consulting company now headquartered in the Indianapolis, Indiana area with sixteen core resources, and backed by a dozen consultants located both in North America and in Western Europe. Depending on projects needs and sizes, Six Feet Up also leverages its connections in the online Community to tap into resources from other open source solution providers.

Six Feet Up's core business lies in the implementation of Content Management Systems (CMS) that allow updates to a website without the need for a webmaster.

Overall the company leverages the power of open source technologies (Plone, BFG, Zope, Mozilla, XUL etc.) to bring enterprise-level web functionalities to our clients, both small and large companies, whether they are in the non-profit or commercial sector.

More specifically, Six Feet Up has been using the Plone Content Management System version 2.0 or higher since March 2004. Prior to March 2004 the company was implementing Zope sites using the Content Management Framework (CMF).

Six Feet Up is a big supporter of open source initiatives and has been actively contributing back to the Community (e.g. MailmanAdaptor, PromoEngine, CMFDeployment, GetPaid, Plone Tune-Up Rallies, etc.):

• At the Plone Symposium 2005 in New Orleans and at the 2005 Plone Conference in Vienna, Austria, Six Feet Up presented many tutorials on how to use the XUL technology with Plone;
• At the 2006 Plone Conference in Seattle, and at the 2007 Web Content Symposium in Chicago, Six Feet Up presented a real-life case study on the implementation of an RDF-based database;
• At the Plone Symposium 2008 in Penn State, Six Feet Up offered four presentations addressing various Plone development and deployment topics;
• At the annual Plone Conference in Washington, DC, in October 2008, Six Feet Up presented one tutorial on buildout and gave two talks on deployment strategies and the Plone CMS;
• In November 2008, Six Feet Up hosted a Plone Deployment Workshop at the Indianapolis Central Library and addressed various topics on fast delivery of dynamic content.
  

We have successfully delivered projects to the following organizations:

• Discover Magazine
• Eli Lilly and Company
• Northwestern University
• University of Virginia
• Duke University
• University of North Carolina
• IEEE Information Theory Society
• Indiana Historical Institute
• And many more