(English) Sponsor Webcast: DELL Presents Internet Apps and Built-In Recovery Plans on June 9th – 1 PM EDT
When most people think about the web, they rarely think about the hardware side of the story. We are proud to have Dell sponsor the FTW! Coding Competition with awesome prizes alongside the Dell workstations at Make Web Not War 2010. Dell participated this year because they believe in the importance of great hardware when developing for the web. Dell would like to invite anyone interested in web apps and ecommerce Apps to join them live webcast they are holding on June 9th about Web App disaster recovery options.
Live Webcast | June 9th, 2010
Join Andre Webley, Tenzing Senior Solutions Engineer and Roy Swift, Enterprise Systems Consultant at Dell to discuss why every Internet application should have a built-in disaster recovery plan. With Web and Ecommerce applications becoming more business critical, downtime is simply not an option. Are you adequately prepared for a disaster? Join us as we explore key considerations to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster, so that your organization is ready for anything. Interested in attending? you can register here
Cheers!
@phponwindows
(English) Speaker Spotlight: Jeremy Wright
Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English.
(English) Sponsor Spotlight: Microsoft Hardware
Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English.
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
Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English.
Speaker Spotlight: Benoit Piette
Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English.
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.
(English) Speaker Spotlight: Erin Blaskie
Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English.
(English) Community Partner Spotlight: Vanilla Forums
Montreal is home of many colorful personalities and ambitious Open Source projects. Mark O’Sullivan and Vanilla Forums are no exception. Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able, pluggable discussion forum for the web. VanillaForums.com is the hosting service for Vanilla – the simple way to grow online communities. Over 300,000 customers have used Vanilla Forums to build community around their website, brand, or business. Mark O’Sullivan, founder of VanillaForums.com, is a husband, an entrepreneur, and a developer (in that order). He enjoys creating and then solving big problems.
1. Why did you want to get involved with Make Web Not War/FTW!?
—
At it’s core, Vanilla is all about integration. We will get behind anything that helps to create and/or promote web standards for cross-application, cross-platform integrations. And, we want to contribute to the developer community in Montreal in any way we can.
2. What do you hope this event will help achieve?
—
Bring the Montreal community together so they can have a better understanding of all of the amazing work being done here.
3. What are you most looking forward to at the event? (session/speaker/party?)
—
We can’t wait for the opportunity to show people the integrations we’ve been working on at Vanilla. And we want to meet developers (we’re hiring!).
