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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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WordCamp Montréal is an annual non-profit event intended to promote the use of WordPress, a popular open source and free website platform. The two-day event will take place on July 9-10 and include two tracks, one for developers and coders and a second track for bloggers and users. WordCamps are informal events organized by users for users. [...]

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From the 12th to 14th of January CodeMash will take place in Sandusky, Ohio. CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Why enter the WebMatrix at CodeMash? We’ll make a presentation of [...]

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2010 was a busy year for the Open Source team at Microsoft. The year was spent working to debunk the Evil Empire associations, showing our support for open source communities big & small, and improving interoperability. In the spirit of list season, here are Microsoft’s 7 best efforts to bridge the gap between OSS and [...]

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Express your Web

Working with Microsoft Products at the YMC Written by Mark Reale The only way you can really gauge the effectiveness of new tools is to put them through the rigors of your daily toil and see how they stand up. Having had the chance to work on some projects over the past few months using [...]

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Using the terms Open Source and Microsoft in the same sentence is not as unheard of as it once was. Microsoft has been hard at work trying to understand and connect with Open Source communities and offer a wide range of solutions. Microsoft, the older brother who doesn’t share his toys, is finally starting to [...]

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Drupal Time!

It’s been a month since my trip to Montreal for WordCamp. I was happy to hear the recent news of theWordPress and Microsoft partnership; maybe it’s due to our recent sponsorship in Montreal! ;)

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Brendan Sera-Shriar is a prominent contributor to the tech scene in Montreal, helping to make it the mecca of social & tech meetups it is today. I first got to meet him during MonDev last year. He was hosting DemoCamp – and what a great guy for the job! Events that feature Brendan are a [...]

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