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Community in Montreal
Looking for community feedback
So it’s nearly December, and it’s the time of the year where you go through projects to see how things are going. In that spirit, here’s a feedback form: Fill out my Wufoo form! There are quite a few good projects (with plans and resources available to make it happen), but due to limited time, [...]
A complete calendar of Montreal Tech events
There’s the excellent montreal startup digest that you can subscribe to get upcoming Montreal events, but as good as Robin can be, there’s still events that you can miss out. Felipe is also doing a calendar, but it’s not complete since he’s in Berlin. I’ve been using a detailed calendar for the past few weeks, [...]
Oui, on parle français
Il y a un article intéressant sur les unilingues anglos au Mile-End que je vous conseille, et le parallèle à faire avec le milieu high-tech est intéressant. Si vous êtes curieux des nouvelles technologies et tout ce qui est “start-up”, un des choses les plus surprenantes est de voir que tout se fait en anglais [...]
Notman House Gets a Cash Injection from The Quebec Government
16/11/2011: Montreal’s tech community received another pleasant treat from the Quebec government. Just recently they announced the Montreal Open Data initiative and today we find out about the “Stratégie québécoise de l’entrepreneuriat“. The new initiative has a goal of building up Montreal’s entrepreneurial scene. Strategic investements were made into new and existing projects which contribute [...]
Montreal Open Data is now Open for business
Yesterday la Ville de Montreal hosted a press conference at Notman house announcing it’s Open Data initiative. The data allows people to create interesting hacks and discover nifty information about the city. For example you can analyze the location of firehydrants and compare it to insurance quotes in the area. Others have created web-sites which [...]
Notman House For Random Hacks of Kindness Hackathon: Dec 2-4 2011
On December 2-4 2011, thousands of people in over 28 locations worldwide will be participating in a hackathon called Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK). Random Hacks of Kindness, started in 2009, is a community of innovation focused on building practical open source solutions to international development and humanitarian challenges. Nokia in collaboration with Notman House [...]
Bug Hunt 3.0 – Montreal Application Testing Session kicks off
While sitting at the latest Bug Hunt 3.0 (held at Notman house) I realized just how more effective it is compared to solo bug hunts. At Notman it’s 15 techies actively looking for bugs in a live shoulder-to-shoulder environment. You are not sitting alone in some dark room, but surrounded by people that get it. [...]
