Québec Ouvert appelle les Montréalais a hacker leur ville

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Publication de dernière minute. L’événement à lieu demain, le 23 février. Dans le cadre de la Journée internationale des données ouvertes 2013, l’organisme Québec Ouvert organise le 23 février prochain à la SAT une journée de discussion et de travail collaboratif sur les bases de données ouvertes de la ville de Montréal, du gouvernement du [...]

Eweek : Global Entrepreneurship Week in Montreal, Nov 12-15th 2012

Eweek : Global Entrepreneurship Week in Montreal, Nov 12-15th 2012

An initiative started in 2008 by UK prime minister Gordon Brown and Carl Scharmm, CEO of Kauffman foundation, Global Entrepreneurship Week has since then grown to 115 countries worldwide, with over 24,000 partners participating and 7 million participants. The week is the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and startups that bring new creative ideas [...]

ConFoo 2013: Call for Papers is Now Open!

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ConFoo is one of the most important developer-oriented conferences. ConFoo 2013 will be held on February 25 through March 1 in Montreal, Canada. The team has opened its call for papers. Candidates can submit proposals until September 23. Consult the call for papers page for details and to start submitting. That page also explains what [...]

Taming the Spaghetti: Rich Web Applications with Errai [Montreal Java User Group]

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The Montreal JUG is back from summer vacation, with a great presentation of the new Errai framework by the core developers from Red Hat jBoss! Register now at http://www.montreal-jug.org! In today’s Web applications, the complexity of the code written for the browser rivals the complexity of the server-side code. Handwritten JavaScript isn’t cutting it anymore. [...]

MTL NewTech #46 ft. Skymotion, PicWaan, Fortem, Trendr and demo tables

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What The Montreal NewTech Demo is a monthly event where five startups present their latest product for 5 minutes followed by 5 minutes Q&A + networking. Where Google Montreal 1253 Avenue McGill College #150 – Montreal When: Tuesday 4th September 2012 Event page: http://twtvite.com/mtlnewtech46 Registration is compulsory (security won’t let people who just show at the [...]

Montreal’s TranspoCamp: notes from the field

Montreal’s TranspoCamp: notes from the field

Three draft transport apps were presented during the closing ceremonies of TransportCamp 2011, Thursday December 15, at the Maison du developpement durable, in downtown Montreal. The event marked the releasing of important new data by the Agence Metropolitaine de Transport (AMT), the City of Montreal and Communauto, for free use by developers. Marketted as a [...]

Montreal StartupTour lets you video tour the city, with tech entrepreneurs

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For newcomers, entrepreneurs from other countries, or even companies looking to come in Montreal, there’s a new site showing the different Montreal neighborhoods, called aptly Montreal StartupTour . The showcased videos were shot and produced by Felipe Coimbra, from 63squares (and mtlnewtech), and goes through St-Laurent, the Mile-End, the Plateau, downtown, the old port, as [...]

Milestone for NewTech meetups, what’s up ahead?

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Thanks for everyone who went to the latest NewTech demos; and a special thanks to the companies who presented, Astrababa (first time presenter), SOSSitter (a helpful service wanting to be get on mobile), Miralupa, Subgraph with their security app Vega, and BullBear (read this). As announced during the event, it’s been 3 years that event [...]