Upcoming: codeFest 2008 at La Bande Passante

By Heri Dec 28th 2007 in Development, Events

A codeFest is a weekend sprint where programmers gather to add features to web applications. Last year’s codeFest theme was openID, and was reported to be very successful. The upcoming codeFest is planned Jan 5th and 6th, and the topic is to add microformats to your favourite applications. It is hosted at La Bande Passante, 8655 St-Denis.

A microformat is a web-based data formatting approach that seeks to re-use existing content as metadata, using only XHTML and HTML classes and attributes. This approach is intended to allow information intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, calendar events, and the like) to also be automatically processed by software.

While microformats have generated a lot of interest amongst the open source community and developers, it hasn’t yet gained any public traction. However, it’s easy to imagine tools, applications and software that would make microformats (re)usable and make it as popular and useful as the RSS/atom format. I am myself working on a microformat project with other montréalers, and will come at the event.

Furthermore, the event is focused on php and on Free / Open Source applications. For more info, there is an event page on facebook.

Intellitix provides rfid access to Coachella

#coachella
twtspire.com| idea for the next startup = One Tweet Away?

Startups solve problems. So if you find a problem there’s probably a startup idea lying somewhere nearby. A Montreal developer Kenji Williams developed an app called twtspire.com that scours twitter and automatically detects tweets from people that wonder why a solution doesn’t exist for a specific problem they’re having. Here are example of tweets from [...]
AccelerateMTL : more than just a conference

AccelerateMTL is coming up on the afternoon on May 23rd, right after the FounderFuel demo day. It’s announced as a conference full of good keynotes, from successful entrepreneurs like BeyondTheRack founder, renowned Internet marketers, and other Internet execs. View more on the eventbrite page. As the name suggests, the presentations were curated to accelerate startups. [...]