Tag Archives | open data
April 30

Use a template, publish your Windows 8 app, and get 100$ – limited offer

By on April 30, 2013 in Featured

It’s already May, the summer is really taking place, the vacations are coming in a couple of weeks, and our partners are going crazy like this crazy frog! With the overwhelming feedbacks they had around some of the templates for Windows 8, they are improving the previous offer: use one of the templates listed below, [...]

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March 19

Ottawa Open Data App Contest: 38 000$ in prizes

By on March 19, 2013 in Geek Speak

You are not in Ottawa? WAIT, stay with me for a minute! For the second year, the city of Ottawa is doing a contest for app builder around Open Data! This year, I’m happy to let you know that they open up the contest to all Canadian, so whenever you are, you can participate. Apps4Ottawa [...]

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February 23

Hacking Open Data with the Finder Template and a Sandwich: Citizen-Ready Apps in Minutes

By on February 23, 2013 in Geek Speak, Training & Webcasts

This weekend I had family visiting, so I wasn’t able to attend any of the OpenDataDay events. However, I decided to do my own “mini-hackathon” during my Saturday lunch break using the new Finder & Hero templates for Windows 8.   UPDATE: Use my Finder template updated with a couple of small fixes. I said [...]

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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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December 19

Make Web Not War Windows 8 app is out

By on December 19, 2012 in Featured, Geek Speak

Just out from the oven, the Windows 8 application for our Make Web Not War blog is now live on the Windows Store! Like I wrote in my blog post about MetroPress, the guys from IdeaNotion were working on a version for our site. They used the free Open Source template to create the application. There [...]

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September 4

Getting started with Open Government

By on September 4, 2012 in Featured, Geek Speak

When I first joined the Make Web Not War team, I was tasked with understanding and contributing to Open Government initiatives in Canada. This seemed like a relatively straightforward task at that time. I mean, we all know (don’t we?) that Open Government is the fundamental right that citizens have to publicly access government issued documents and information. [...]

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August 29

Fred answers your questions about Open Source, Open Standard, Open Data, and Interoperability at Microsoft series

By on August 29, 2012 in Geek Speak

I know, it’s not always easy to find the right information about Microsoft, and what we are doing to be more open to the rest of the world, and other technology. At Make Web Not War, we try to share you the information we find the most valuable for you, but you may have unanswered [...]

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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 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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February 23

Make Web Not War Will Be At Confoo 2012!

By on February 23, 2012 in Featured

Hey tech friends! Have you heard the news? Make Web Not War will be at the ConFoo Web Techno Conference held in Montreal from Feb 29th to March 2nd! With more than 160 conference sessions taking place over the 3 day event, this year’s ConFoo conference will cover a wide-range of awesome tech-related topics with a focus [...]

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