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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January
13
Jeff ( @geerlingguy ) currently works for flockNote, an online communication company based in Texas, and collaborates on many projects outside of his work for flockNote. He contributes code to some open source mobile development tools for iOS and Android, and contributes code, documentation, and support to Drupal, and dabbles in many small projects for various [...]
January
3
January 1, 2012 marked the close of the Bhangra.me: Vancouver’s Bhangra Story exhibition at the Museum of Vancouver. The web portion of the exhibit was powered by the Drupal framework happily running on IIS 7.5 / Windows Sever 2008, which served as a repository of interactive stories accessible from: WebSite for adding & browsing interactive [...]
November
17
Join us at The Drupal Business Summit in Toronto on Friday, December 2, 2011! During this free 1-day summit discover best practices from organizations transforming their web strategies with Drupal. Hear from real Drupal users – the why, the what, the how of Drupal. Hear lessons learned, tips and techniques, and best practices for large scale [...]
July
18
Meet Alex ElChehimi (@spicydesign), a Wordpress and web designer from Montreal who makes Wordpress into art. I recently asked Alex some questions about Open Source and what he likes about it. For Alex, the potential of Open Source lies in its versatility and the community behind it.
June
30
Meet Brendan Sera-Shriar (aka @digibomb). Brendan is a lot of things: a Wordpress designer, community manager with Vanilla Forums, co-founder of Mobile Camp Montreal, and a whole bunch of other things. I recently asked Brendan a bunch of questions about Open Source: the role it plays in our works, what he sees as the most important platforms, and even what he thinks about how Microsoft is embracing it.
May
19
Check out our interview with Code Your Art Out-er contestant Francois Viens as he speaks on what his team hopes to gain and plans to use with the cash prize!
April
29
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 [...]
April
27
As a mover and shaker in the Vancouver open source community, we wanted to talk with Steve Krueger about his thoughts on the upcoming Open Source Week in Vancouver. Please tell us about yourself. I’m Steve Krueger, a founding partner of two web based start-ups located in beautiful Vancouver; The Jibe, a Drupal consultancy – and Bablingo, [...]
April
13
As part of the developer & Open Source community in Canada, Microsoft is helping to orchestrate an Open Source Week in Vancouver. We are pleased to confirm six events, starting with a Joomla User Group Meet-Up happening on the evening of May 3rd. Closing out the week is Microsoft’s Make Web Not War. This one-day conference focuses on the latest Open Source and Microsoft technologies available to the ever-evolving web community. This is an exciting week, with a lot of great people getting together and talking about the amazing things that can happen when technologies and communities unite. Vive Vancouver!
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An Intro To The Semantic Web: Why You Need To Know About It Sooner Than Later
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WHY THE @&*# IS MICROSOFT DOING THIS?
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Feeling Blue? Why The Most Popular Websites Are Blue
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From Apples to Mangoes: A first look at the Nokia Lumia 800
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Drupal + OGDI = Open Data goodness!
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Random Hacks of Kindness: help solve global challenges
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Take your HTML5 skills, and build on Windows 8
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Join the developer movement
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Make Web Not War Community Night in Vancouver was a blast
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Eye tracking games hackathon
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