Projects

Ryan Kopf's AnimeCon.org group has built some of the largest community events in the Midwest. These anime conventions bring together a community of thousands of fans in celebration collective fandom. AnimeCon.org builds a community for thousands of young people who often otherwise have nothing interesting to do. Our success comes from a passion for our customer and our field, and our focus on building technology that greatly simplifies planning and management.

With over 20 years of programming experience, Ryan's company Iowa Web Magic, formerly Chrono Online, develops numerous software projects. For starters, Ryan has built a powerful event ticket sales software platform Tixily, a anime dating website MaiOtaku, the world's best convention listings site UpcomingCons, a browser-extension language learning app Word Sponge, and more. Chrono Online dba Iowa Web Magic has built over 100 websites for paying clients. Ryan has expert knowledge in SEO, design, CSS, HTML, Ruby on Rails, Rust, TypeScript, PHP, Regular Expressions, InnoDB, MariaDB, and more.

UpcomingCons.com has provided cosplayers with tens of thousands of pictures from anime and comic conventions around the country. Using a Nikon D5200 and 1.8 aperture lens, UpcomingCons.com helps to preserve memories and costumes for an eternity. UpcomingCons documents conventions and memories for people who love anime and conventions. Photography can bring people together and create never-ending memories and preserve happy moments forever.

Ryan Kopf has been a long-time advocate for open source and free software. Contributions include work on Geokit, acts_as_indexed, askcommand, and railsgrep. More than a decade ago, when attending the University of Iowa, Ryan worked in Sun Microsystem's campus ambassador program to evangelize open source software professionally, and promoted open source software as the Technology Director for the University of Iowa's Student Government. Ryan encourages people to use Open Source software, and thinks more people should learn how to use the LibreOffice office suite and the Linux operating system.

Ryan has built awesome software that connects communities with bulk SMS communication, and web databases. This software enables companies to communicate with their costumers and people to communicate with each other. This powerful software helps real people connect with each other and receive important notifications.

Ryan has been building 3D printing technology using stereolithography techniques. This includes advanced liquid resin 3D printing and stereolithographic technology including the use of DLP projection and laser equipment.