Montreal Tech Watch

One of the first posts at TechEntreprise, back in August, was about an idea by Zed Shaw, which was to get developers and hackers together and work on projects. 

The post was meant to test the publishing system there, but it generated quite some attention, up to the point that doing an event like this in Montréal made sense. 

Now, I don’t know Zed Shaw nor do I completely understand his “fight club” rules; all I know is that there is a substantial group of developers in Montréal willing to get together, share projects and code, and experiment new technologies.

All without necessarily thinking about underlying business models, but just to hack things together and see what comes of this.  

That’s the vision, and all we needed was a place to host this. I’m happy to announce that we found it!

Bolidea, a new technology incubator founded by successful web entrepreneurs, graciously offered to host the event in their awesome offices on St-Laurent boulevard, right near Laika. Bolidea develops technology companies that strive to provide solutions to real market problems. They share our vision of gathering developers, entrepreneurs and everyone else interested in experimenting with new technologies.

So here it is:

A first FreeHackers event is scheduled Saturday 13th of December, beginning from 12.30pm, for an entire afternoon of freehacking, up until 6 or 7pm. 

Every python, ruby, C, java, php, erlang, sql, javascript, css developer is invited to come over. It’s your chance to work on a new library, or on a new algorithm you’ve never had the time to work on, or just meet other developers. Of course designers, and people wanting to work on hardware are also welcomed.

I’m expecting between 10 to 20 people. Registration will close after the first 20 people so sign up here (the event is open but places are going to be limited)

Note: I am aware that there are talks about doing a programming event at montrealonrails, but as far as I am concerned, it’s only about rails (or ruby) stuff, which I find very limited. Getting everyone onboard would be much more interesting than restricting an event to a language or one implementation

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