Montreal Tech Watch

php Québec organized Codefest 3.0, a 3 day event where programmers are invited to work on their open source project, share their work.

This time, it was sponsored by Microsoft Canada (their office in Toronto), and was held at a Helm Café, on Bernard Street.

There’s something striking seeing 20 or so php programmers each in front of a laptop, all in corner of a trendy bar.

The event was “organized” in a very free-form way, similar to FreeHackers, but maybe with even less focus on having “results”. A few of the ingredients:

• it’s cool to have free food and beer (!)
• great idea to gather everyone in the same space, lots of energy. I met a few students, from a computer engineering school I didn’t know about (!!), and it seems there are lots to be done with them in the future. Also new ideas discussed about future direction of TechEntreprise 
• a conference/presentation was held to present tests suites for php, etc.
• I noticed lots of openess: there was a guy who will be doing Google’s Summer of Code, on Asterisk. A couple of people were also doing standard Java work, and also ruby (that’s me and Gregory)

Pics from the demo, test suites in php



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