Montreal Tech Watch

Upcoming: Codefest 3.0 this weekend

By Heri Apr 29th 2009 in Events, Open Source

codefest
codefest

Codefest is a weekend-long event targeted at php programmers, but also any other developers programming in other languages, planned from May 1st to May3rd. Come over if you want to meet other developers, and co-work on current & open source projects

Event website

Here is a report of a previous Codefest

Another report

Proposed Projects in 3.0:

  • MediaWiki
  • Drupal
  • WordPress
  • TikiWiki CMS/Groupware
  • BeWelcome
  • Habari
  • Anne G. wikigraphe
  • PHP Unit Tests
  • PHP Quebec Employment section
  • Laconica sera présent (ideas)
  • sux0r.org
  • Validation Testing Framework
  • Your project! (Contact us contact@codefest.ws)

As a sidenote, Evan Prodromou worked on the first lines of identi.ca at Codefest 2.0. Organizers are also looking for additional sponsors.

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