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An interview with Code Your Art Out-er Kowsheek Mahmood, as he touches on why he decided to particpate and what prompted him to pick the project for The Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada.

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Does Microsoft really care about Open Source? Is it “part of a ploy” or an earnest effort to “build bridges”? What does Microsoft do with Open Source communities & projects? This panel is your opportunity to find out! Here’s your chance to ask questions, voice your concerns, offer ideas, suggestions and vent, if you’re so inclined. Guaranteed to be a lively discussion!

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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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Check out our interview with Code Your Art Out-er Michael Nussbacher, as he tells us his interest in helping people and making life easier for people through applying web development and how Epilogger was born.

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Vive Vancouver!

Julia recaps her trip to Vancouver for some pre-Make Web Not War community time. Features video interviews by Boris Mann and Chris Nicol.

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Written by Julian Egelstaff of Freeform Solutions I have to say, being invited by Microsoft to a week-long open source programming camp was not something I expected to happen, but it turned out to be excellent. I had the privilege to be among seventeen open source developers from the UK, US and Canada who got [...]

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Edmonton is officially the first city in North America to sign onto Microsoft’s Open Government Data Initiative, and has released its first set of downloadable databases holding pertinent municipal data. The City of Municipality is using Windows Azure to host their open data catalogue. Here’s why the Opendata movement across Canadian cities is awesome: 1) [...]

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