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At Make Web Not War we like to promote applications or games the people in communities are doing around our platforms. We did an interview with Rob Targosz, who build a Windows 8 game around magic, and demons. As far as we like demons, and playing games on our devices (not during work hours… ahum… [...]

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If you haven’t figured it out by now (from my string of posts this past week), we have a star-studded line-up joining us at the Vancouver Community Night on April 17. To add to the awesomeness, Glenn Hilton from ImageX Media will be joining us and teaching us a thing or two about how to recruit and [...]

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We are excited to have Colin Calnan and Emira Mears from Raised Eyebrow Web Studio (community rock stars and MWNW friends) join us on our Vancouver Community Night on April 17. Raised Eyebrow Web Studio Inc. is a Vancouver based digital firm that works primarily with non-profit clients to hone their strategic use of the web. [...]

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We are in for a treat in Vancouver, this April 17th, because Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Valerie McTavish, and Tim Wohlberg will be talking to us about Zufall Adventures: Building a web experience in 24 hours! We all have great ideas, but making those ideas into reality is something few of us ever achieve. Valerie McTavish and [...]

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We are pleased to inform you that Igor will be joining us for the Make Web Not War Vancouver Community Night on April 17! Igor is the CEO and co-founder of Mobify, the open mobile platform. Mobify is the leader in the mobile commerce space, powering mobile stores for Starbucks, Threadless, lululemon, Siemens and other [...]

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We are very excited to have Kalvir Sandhu join us at the Make Web Not War Community Mixer in Vancouver! Kalv has been working with Ruby for over 5 years. Some highlights of his recent work would be founding GoFreeRange, the best ruby web development group in London, UK. Building of an API for O2′s [...]

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Bassel Moukaddem is the COO of EXOPC, the company behind the EXOdesk platform. We did a review of the EXOdesk as well as a quick interview with Bassel during Confoo 2012. There was a 32inch EXOdesk in debug mode at Confoo that we were able to play around with. In this interview Bassel explains some [...]

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Miroslav Jeliaskoff is a developer with a sports start up called tout.it. The vision for Tout.it is to create a sports themed site with as much open source capability as possible – the main component being an API that other sports fans and developers can make use of. Miroslav was invited by Make Web Not [...]

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We caught up with Nik Garkusha, the Open Platforms Lead at Microsoft Canada at Confoo 2012 this year. In this interview we get some sight into Microsoft’s “Open Government in a Box” Drupal distribution. Datapublic is a fully-loaded platform built on Drupal 7 bundled with over a dozen of custom features and modules that are [...]

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Si Chen got involved with open source software when he and his wife left their careers as a portfolio manager and a research analyst and started Gracious Style, an online retailer. After building their first online store with Perl, PHP, and MySQL, and he began to work on a more comprehensive solution, which led him [...]

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