Effective basically immediately, our team is moving over to become the in-house crew responsible for building all of Zerofootprint's products, including the Kids and Youth Calculator, the One Minute Calculators, the Facebook Calculator, and the Personal Carbon Manager. We have a few great projects to wrap up before everyone trades in their old Radiant Core punch cards for their shiny new Zerofootprint ones, so keep an eye out for a few more announcements on this very blog.

Longer term, we're happy to announce that we've been working really hard to find a home for all of our great clients and we're delighted that The Jonah Group will be taking over from us on some of our accounts. We're still working out some of the specifics, but they're an excellent shop and we're really delighted that we can end our professional services practice on such a high note. We've spoken to all of our clients and they've been very congratulatory and supportive, which just goes to show that we really did have the best customers a firm could ask for.

For all of you Foundation users out there, we're also thrilled to announce that we'll be releasing the full product under and Open Source license, with the Jonah Group picking up the bulk of the ongoing maintenance and development. We're still weighing a few Open Source license options (though we're leaning toward the Mozilla Public License), so if you have a favourite please leave a comment below.

This is one of those rare deals which is truly a win-win for both sides, and I know I speak for Ron and the whole team at Zerofootprint, as well as for Michael and the Radiant Core crew, when I say that we are all very much looking forward to saving the world together. We've spent the last four and a half years building websites and web applications, and although we've had a wonderful time and worked on some great projects, very few of them served an altruistic purpose beyond promoting a product or selling more widgets. We're now in the very enviable position of knowing that each feature we spec, each line of code we craft, and each bug we squash brings us that much closer to reducing the world's CO2 footprint. I don't know about you, but that's pretty inspiring for me. Keep an eye on the Zerofootprint site for some big changes over the coming months, and we'll see you at the next DemoCamp, Rails Pub Night, CaseCamp, TransitCamp, etc.

I had the privilege of attending this morning's press event and live Twittered, so if you'd like to know more about what was said, see my Twitterstream. Press coverage is starting to appear (the Toronto Star is up with Website measures local carbon footprints), and watch the news tonight for footage from CBC and Citytv, both of whom sent camera crews. Mayor Miller apparently loves it and was there to say lots of nice things, which is always a good endorsement. Check it out for yourself!

We resolved to stop making resolutions we couldn't keep — did you make any fun resolutions? Leave 'em in the comments and we'll drop by your blog later this year to remind you about them :)

While you're here, why not help make the world a little better in the new year? Our good friends at Zerofootprint, with whom we've been doing quite a lot of work lately (stay tuned for some exciting announcements!), have been nominated for a very prestigious TechCrunch Crunchy Award in the "Most likely to make the world a better place" category, and they could really use your vote! Visit the Crunchies site and vote for them right away. The world appreciates it!