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Upcoming: Codefest this weekend, Oct 3rd-5th

By Heri Oct 2nd 2008 in Development, entrepreneurship, Events, Open Source

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.

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