(English) FTW! Applicant Spotlight | Buğra Firat (English Only)
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Community Partner Spotlight: impressCMS
We are happy to have ImpressCMS partner with us for the “Make Web, Not War’ conference this year in Montreal. ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System for easily building and maintaining a dynamic web site. Marc-André Lanciault, one of the initiators of the ImpressCMS open source project, describes ImpressCMS as “the ideal tool for a wide range of users: from business to community users, from large enterprises to people who want a simple, easy to use blogging tool. ImpressCMS is a powerful system that gets outstanding results!”
Marc-André is a web developer with strong expertise on the LAMP architecture and founder of INBOX International inc , a Montreal based company specializing in web development based on open source technologies. Marc-André and his organization have a very strong knowledge of the ImpressCMS, XOOPS and Wordpress architecture and can build, expand, customize anything related to these open source content management systems. Catch Marc-Andre at the “Why one is just not good enough” Panel at ‘Make Web not War”. We asked Marc-Andre a few questions on what he thoguhts about Make Web not War:
Why did you want to get involved with Make Web Not War/FTW?
Cross-platform in the open source world has always been a challenge. It is very interesting to have a conference dedicated to that topic.
What do you hope this event will help achieve?
Get people to learn more about open source cross-platform and how you can more easily achieve more!
What are you most looking forward to at the event? (session/speaker/party?)
The business track!
Speaker Spotlight: Morten Rand-Hendriksen
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Speaker Spotlight: Benoit Piette
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Community Partner Spotlight: W3Québec
At Confoo we had an opportunity to talk about web standards and interoperability with Samuel Lavoie from W3 Quebec. Samuel felt that MWNW and the FTW coding competition were a good way to celebrate an Open web and wanted to participate. We are proud to have them as community partners for MWNW and judges for the FTW Coding Competition.
a. Why did you decide to speak at Make Web Not War/FTW!?
A lot of new exciting things are happening with Web technology: cloud computing, mobile Web, advancement in Web standards, etc. I haven’t seen a lot of talks on HTML5 in Montreal and I thought I should do something about it. HTML is still the foundation of everything Web related (well almost) and it’s evolving at a more rapid pace right now. Especially with the advent of Internet Explorer 9 (and hopefully 10 and 11 too) Web developers will be enabled to advance their skills and use better techniques that were only available in other browsers. Also, those skills will be an asset for advancing interoperability on the mobile Web. If we believe that interoperability is important for competition and openness in technology, then open and standardized Web technology should be as advanced as what’s available in mobile application stores. Also, don’t forget about accessibility, A LOT of stuff is happening right now. I definitely have to read more on ARIA and hopefully I’ll have something for you at MWNW.
b. What do you hope this event will help achieve?
We should strive to learn new skills and understand what happening in our industry. This way we will be able to help the industry and provide for the continuing health of our jobs. Also, having fun is a prerequisite. We must talk, exchange on ideas and work together. In events like these, we are not in competition (well, except for the FTW competition, good competition!) and not within a silo. Let’s take this time to talk and exchange. Don’t be shy! I am the most nervous and shy guy around and I am doing a talk! So if this event (and others like it) helps us achieve these goals, then we will be all better for it.
c. What are you most looking forward to at the event? (session/speaker/party?)
I definitely look forward to meet people and exchange on what’s happening right now in the Web industry. A lot of game changing products and technology are in their infancy right now. Will they succeed, will they put what we thought is normal out the window ? Being in information technology is quite cool right now. Don’t you think ? As for other speakers, there is a big possibility I’ll be too nervous thinking about my talk to listen to them. (Just joking). I always like Joey Devilla’s talks. He has a lot of wit and useful advice. If you can get Laurent Duveau, his talks on Silverlight are always great.
La qualité web selon Élie Sloïm
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Interview de Tarek Ziadé
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(English) The Agavi Framework
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Rencontre avec Marc-André Cournoyer de Ruby
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