Tag Archives | confoo
February 25

We’re 3D Scanning (and maybe Printing) You at Confoo!

By on February 25, 2013 in Events, Featured

The world of 3D Printing is truly an amazing one.  With the rising accessibility of 3D printers and all the open source software out there, paired with the right technology, the possibilities are endless! To support Microsoft and MWNW, as well as take advantage of this awesome opportunity to showcase our latest development, the team [...]

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February 20

Open Data in Your App: 2 events, 2 days, 2 speakers, 2 templates!

By on February 20, 2013 in Events

This Saturday, February 23rd is the international Open Data day, and the teams at Québec Ouvert, Montréal Ouvert & OpenNorth are organizing an event – focused on open data. Just 2 days later on Monday 25th, one of the organizers Stéphane Guidoin from OpenNorth is speaking  at our WebNotWar / HTLM5mtl 2-day Hackathon in Montreal, where [...]

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January 21

Make Web Not War Hackathon at Confoo

By on January 21, 2013 in Events

  For the third year the Make Web Not War team will be at Confoo (by the way, it’s not too late yo buy your ticket for the conference itself). This year again we are planning something fun for the attendees of the conference, but we also wanted to create an amazing event before the conference. [...]

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Confoo interview with ExoPC COO Bassel Moukaddem from Make Web Not War on Vimeo.

March 30

Interview – Bassel Moukaddem of EXOPC

By on March 30, 2012 in Community Rock Stars

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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March 28

Interview: Nik Garkusha

By on March 28, 2012 in Community Rock Stars

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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March 2

Confoo 2012 – Ruby as She is Spoke

By on March 2, 2012 in Events

One of the themes of Confoo 2012 was programmers stepping outside of their comfort zone and being exposed to unfamiliar coding languages. My main interest being Javascript and PHP, I was really pleased to learn something new, something called Ruby on Rails. The very charismatic and funny Joey DeVilla hosted the session Ruby as She is [...]

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March 2

Confoo 2012 – Building Mobile Experiences That Don’t Suck

By on March 2, 2012 in Events

Another summary of a talk we attended on Day 2 of Confoo 2012. If you haven’t checked out the Make Web Not War Dojo yet – make sure to come visit us tomorrow for lightning talks, kinect Fruit Ninja and giveaways! Building Mobile Experiences That Don’t Suck by Frédéric Harper Frédéric Harper is a Developer [...]

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February 29

Confoo 2012 – DRYing CSS for brevity, unity and maintainability

By on February 29, 2012 in Events

Another summary of a talk we attended on Day 1 of Confoo 2012. If you haven’t checked out the Make Web Not War Dojo yet – make sure to come visit us tomorrow for lightning talks, kinect Fruit Ninja and giveaways! DRYing CSS for brevity, unity and maintainability by Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke brought a [...]

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February 29

Favorite Day 1 #ConFoo tweets

By on February 29, 2012 in Events

We put together some of our favorite #Confoo tweets from day 1 – vote on your favorite at the poll and retweet it to your fellow confoo attendees!

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February 29

Confoo 2012 – The HTML5 Landscape

By on February 29, 2012 in Events

Here is a summary of a talk we attended on Day 1 of Confoo 2012. If you haven’t checked out the Make Web Not War Dojo yet – make sure to come visit us tomorrow for lightning talks, kinect Fruit Ninja and giveaways! The HTML5 Landscape by Andrew Lombardi HTML5 was introduced in 2009 and [...]

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