Montreal
Yesterday, Alex and I presented at McGill University's School of Computer Science about starting a tech company in Montreal. We talked about how we went about starting our business when we graduated from McGill back in 2007. We had a great turnout with lots of eager comp sci students eager to learn about how to get into tech entrepreneurship.
This week I had the chance to speak at ConFoo, Montreal's annual conference on web technologies. The conference attracts speakers and attendees from across Europe and North America, as well as locals from Montreal. On the list of speakers this year were Andrew Zmievsky who presented on Geotools and ElasticSearch and James Duncan from Joyent speaking about Node.js.
Last weekend, Alex and I attended Canada's first healthcare-themed hackathon. Hacking Health took place at Thompson House on McGill University's campus and attracted around 200 participants including healthcare professionals and developers.
Last night we held Montreal's February Drupal meetup at Notman House. The meetup included a four presentations of Drupal modules and projects.
Over the past two months, we've held four public Drupal trainings out of our office in Montreal. It's been an amazing experience for building up the Montreal Drupal community, practicing our training talents, and introducing lots of people to Drupal.
Evolving Web is excited to announce the start of our Drupal training program. As an Acquia training partner, we will offer training in site building, module development, and theming.
After 6 months of planning, DrupalCamp Montreal finally came together mid-September. We were all really excited for how this year would pan out. With a smaller, leaner organizational team, the core group of volunteers quickly secured a location, set up a website and selected keynotes. McGill University generously provided McIntyre Medical building as our venue, and we hosted a pre-Camp code sprint at the Notman House.
With only a week to go, everyone at Evolving Web is getting ready for DrupalCamp Montreal. This will be our fourth Camp so far, and we’re proud to be Platinum sponsors of the event. The Camp will feature keynotes by Angie ‘webchick’ Byron and Jen Simmons, 26 sessions on topics ranging from open data to theming, and a multilingual code sprint.
This Wednesday, Whisky Echo Bravo held the first ever Montreal Drupal BBQ at their office on the Lachine Canal.
We're live! DrupalCampMontreal.com is now up and open for registrations to this year's Camp. Create your account now to propose sessions and BOFs. The success of the Camp depends on your participation, so please also sign up to volunteer and/or sponsor the Camp. You’ll find badges to spread the word about your attendance and sponsorship - show the Camp some love and post a badge on your site.
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