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My company, Subgraph, has just launched a new website. We’ve opened up a little about what we’re doing. Check it out.
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Real quick:
1. Startup Drinks Montreal is tonight. Going to be at Brutopia. Show up around 6?
2. Community and open-source friendly free conference Make Web Not War is being held tomorrow (Thursday). You can register here.
3. MTLSEC will be held tomorrow evening. 5:30pm->?. Old Dublin (636 Cathcart).
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There’s a coffee maker / computer up for grabs for one lucky Montrealer. It’s on Craigslist. Better act quickly.
World Day Against Cyber Censorship
Today, March 12, is World Day Against Cyber Censorship, organized by Reporters sans Frontières – “pour la liberté de la presse”. The objective is to spread awareness of the threat of Internet censorship: by oppressive governments (Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Tunisia, etc), bully corporations (bad guys against net neutrality, Microsoft vs. Cryptome recently, everyone vs. Wikileaks), etc. Unfortunately, their website seems to be having technical difficulties, possibly because of traffic. One way to participate is to display the image to the left (images of different colors and sizes are available on the currently broken website).
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I had intended to pop into five events yesterday. I only made it to three.
First stop: StatusNet. The Montreal startup StatusNet, a company headed by WikiTravel founder Evan Prodomrou, develops and maintains an open-source microblogging platform. They also run Identi.ca, an alternative to Twitter that allows you to use OpenID or some other federated identity rather than maintain a separate login and password. Cool, always liked them, we’re doing open-source too. They had a little party to warm up their new digs in the plateau and to celebrate their new cloud offering. We’re happy about the new place, but we already miss them at 2020 University.
The StatusNet Team
Next, The Sparrow on St-Laurent. Launch party for nomag, the e-zine that’s not an e-zine. Started by a couple of Montrealers, covering the indie music and art scene. They’ve got an article about animals getting hammered. Check it out.
nomag Launch Party at The Sparrow
Then on to the “Confoo Contiki” at Brutopia. Confoo is a fairly high-profile conference for web-developer types that started today. The party was hosted by Microsoft Canada and TikiWiki (another Montreal-based startup doing open source). Met lots of interesting techies. Had some great conversations about web application security challenges. I learned about another upcoming event, initiated by Microsoft – “Make Web, Not War“. It’s a general conference for web developers, to be held in Montreal on May 27, 2010. There’s also a programming contest.
There were two events I didn’t make: IdentityCamp, which was held at Station-C. Finally, a Montreal NewTech Demo event took place last night at McKibbon’s, near Concordia. I didn’t make it because I just didn’t have time. Let me know what you thought of the presentations.
Hi there.
My name is David. I’m an entrpreneur in the technology (specifically information security space), and I’m starting a new blog. It’s called Montreal Stuff. I like to write, and I probably don’t have time to do this, but some important blogs have gone dormant – so I’m stepping up to fill in the gap. I’m not really covering what I do – that is over at my company website.
I’m gonna write about all of the great events that are put on by the local technology and social media community. I’m gonna post pictures. Cover new startups. Etc. I’ll also taint the content with Montreal stuff that reflects my own interests, covering other things that I like, betting that my friends in the local technology and social media scene here like them too. Basically Montreal Stuff.
So with that, I am going to get on with creating real content. Welcome!
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