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March 5

Pushing for Open Data? 3 Steps to Consider

By on March 5, 2012 in Events, Featured

Open Data is fast becoming a ‘hot topic’ in government. I’m proud to see my colleagues & fellow open gov supporters helping governments around the world launch their cloud-powered open data catalogues: from the Government of Columbia and the European Union, to the Canadian cities of Regina, SK and Medicine Hat, AB. But it’s not [...]

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January 13

Interview – Jeff Geerling – Open Source Catholic

By on January 13, 2012 in Community Rock Stars

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 [...]

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January 6

Interview – Glyn Moody

By on January 6, 2012 in Community Rock Stars

Glyn ( @glynmoody ) has been a technology journalist and consultant for a quarter of a century, covering the Internet since March 1994, and the free software world since 1995. One of his early features he wrote was for Wired in 1997: The Greatest OS that (N)ever Was. His most recent books are Rebel Code: Linux [...]

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January 3

Drupal & Bhangra.me

By on January 3, 2012 in Events

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 [...]

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November 28

My City Lives!

By on November 28, 2011 in Community Rock Stars, Community Sponsors, Events

Post written by community rock star Paul Jara. Community is fundamental to the success of MyCityLives. We simply could not exist without people who love their city and are passionate about sharing that love. In difficult times around the world, the web holds evidence that people come together to create and foster communities that work. [...]

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July 22

Interop & Flexibility: Interview with Mike Maddaloni (@TheHotIron)

By on July 22, 2011 in Community Rock Stars

Meet Mike Maddaloni (@TheHotIron), a business technology blogger and Founder & President of Dunkirk Systems (@TheHotIron). Mike’s been building stuff since the first dot-com bubble, so I recently asked Mike for his input on the world of Open Source and how it’s evolving.

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July 18

Open Source, Versatility, and Community: Interview with @SpicyDesign

By on July 18, 2011 in Community Rock Stars

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.

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July 14

Open Source and Problem Solving: Interview with Paul Reinheimer

By on July 14, 2011 in Community Rock Stars

Meet Paul Renheimer (@preinheimer) founder of WonderProxy and author of Professional Web APIs with PHP. We recently asked Paul about his love affair with Open Source, and he told us how it’s based on its potential to not only solve problems, but solve them quickly.

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June 30

WordPress & Vanilla: Interview with Brendan Sera-Shriar

By on June 30, 2011 in Community Rock Stars

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.

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June 20

Open Source & MySQL: Interview with Morgan Tocker

By on June 20, 2011 in Community Rock Stars

Meet Morgan Tocker, a MySQL expert who specializes in performance tuning, scalability and high availability. Morgan recently took the time to chat with me about how he sees open source technology as keeping software and support vendors more honest and competitive.

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