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The team from Make Web Not War is thrilled to have thirdocean as a community sponsor for our first ever community night! thirdocean is an agency based out of Toronto, ON founded in 2011 by Karim Kanji and Carolyn Van.   They offer social media marketing communications and community management. They are experts in the social media [...]

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On December 1st we’ll be hosting our first ever Make Web Not War community night!  We’re really excited to have such a stellar speaker line-up for our first community night event. Check out these community rock stars who will be kicking off the Toronto event.  The in-person event is sold out but don’t worry you’ll [...]

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Confoo is looking for the best speakers willing to share their skills and experience with developers and managers. This year, Confoo is dedicated to software development, project management and best practices. The technical part covers different aspects of Web development such as: PHP, Python, Ruby, .Net, Java, security, content management systems, frameworks, databases, system administration, [...]

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Booom!!

Whether you’re a business that utilizes Facebook for marketing, or a regular user (like most of us), you should check out this killer app called Booom!.   Booom! was developed by Trevor and Karim of  Toronto-based Big Time Design. Booom! allows you to receive the information you want from your favourite brands and pages on Facebook. Once [...]

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If you’re a student at Simon Frasier University you’d be hard pressed to find a reason not to use to Professor Pedia. The application is both a social and informational platform for students’ daily academic lives.It’s a solution for students’ most basic academic needs: professor ratings, book trading, a student forum and a WikiNote.  Along with [...]

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Code Your Art Out recently wrapped up and so we wanted to showcase the winning app Save The Rain! Save the Rain was developed by Mark  Laudon of Surrey, British Colombia. This original app provides an avenue to raise awareness of how high a value rain water can have in the production of crops/hunger resolution. [...]

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On behalf of the Judges from Code Your Art Out, we’d like to give a HUGE congratulations to Epilogger and Save the Rain applications for making it into the top two!!   The competition was very tough, and deciding the top two was not easy, but it was a unanimous decision that Epilogger and Save The [...]

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I was thrilled that Rebecca (aka Miss 604) was up for an interview on Port 25. I think of her as the Queen of Vancouver    and so thought she was the perfect person to round out our series on Vancouver Open Source Week.  Please tell us about yourself. I have been using WordPress since 2006 (on [...]

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Duane Storey is an active member of the Vancouver tech community. We were  lucky enough to grab some time with him. Thanks again Duane! Vancouver Open Source Week Schedule Please tell us about yourself. I am a Vancouver resident and active member of the blogging and social media scene here.  When not hacking out code, [...]

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As an important contributor to the open source community in Vancouver we were thrilled to chat with Glenn Hilton! Vancouver Open Source Week Please tell us about yourself. I’m the President and CEO of ImageX Media (http://imagexmedia.com). We’re a web design and development shop specializing in Drupal content management solutions. I’ve been a Vancouverite all [...]

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