Sarven Capadisli gave me the heads-up, for the codefest this weekend:
The PHP Quebec team is pleased to invite you to the codeFest PHP Quebec 2.2 that will be held in Montreal & Sherbrooke on October 3rd-5th 2008.
The codeFest is a great opportunity to meet with peers PHP, Python, Ruby, Java developers and share knowledge and participate in the development of OpenSource software.
Senior & Junior developers from the PHP, Python, Ruby, Java community are invited to join us for 2 days of optimization & Unit Testing of your favorite OpenSource project.
Proposed Projects in 2.2:
MediaWiki
Drupal
WordPress
TikiWiki CMS/Groupware
BeWelcome
Habari
Anne G. wikigraphe
PHP Quebec Employment section
Laconica (ideas)
Your project! (Contact us contact@codefest.ws)Goal:
Improve the performance of OpenSource projects
Improve code quality of OpenSource projects by writing UnitTest
Codefests are geared to developers, initially for php programmers, but they are opening the event for programmers coming from other backgrounds (python, java, ruby etc.)
See report about the previous codefest here.
Also report about codefest 2 (microformats) here.
Comments
Montreal Tech Watch October 02, 2008
Upcoming: Codefest this weekend, Oct 3rd-5th http://tinyurl.com/4gx3x2
Yann Larrivée October 02, 2008
Location : L’ESCALIER
Address: 552, Sainte-Catherine est, Montréal
Metro: Beri-UQAM
If you want to go drink a beer friday night, I invite you to join me at the St-Ciboire at 6pm.
Their will be lots of people.
If you can’t find us call me at 514-581-8497.
Cheers!
Yann
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