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DemoCampMontreal2 rocked with 5 amazing demonstrations.

The Montreal Tech community has some reports about the events in the case you have missed it or if you want to fondly reminisce about the event or show others why it’s a great night to attend.

Other DemoCampMontreal2 reports

1. Josh of YashLabs. Previous DemoCamp reports by Josh seem to have played an ever so slight role in the launching of BarCampCalgary, with most of the heavy lifting done by Austin Hill.

2. Alec Saunders of iotum

3. Martin Dufort & Alain Lavoie of Kakiloc

4. Heri Rakotomalala of Montreal Tech Watch

5. John Stokes of A Montreal Startup

6. Simon has the best pictures

7. Hugh McGuire has an extensive write-up on his new site.

8. Alistair has a write-up

9. Roberto from the Gazette has a Report on the Reports on his fun and informative TechnoCité blog. Thanks for the link, Roberto

The last week of March is jam-packed with great events in Montreal’s Tech and Tech-Business Scenes. Here’s a run-down of notable events:

1. IntraCom Montreal 2007

This conference was mentioned by Stéphane Hamel during the Web Analytics Wednesday meeting in Montreal. It’s the 7th International Francophone Conference about Intranet and Web technologies.

2. Financing your Technology Startups

Bilal Kader, (organizer of the Montreal Entrepreneur Meetup group) sent an email about the second workshop of The Entrepreneurship Club of Concordia. Mr. J. Pelland, Business Advisor at the Dobson Center of Concordia University will be the guest speaker. The free workshop he will conduct is Financing your Technology Startups.

3. Yulbiz.

This month’s meeting of business bloggers in Montreal occurs at Café Méliès as usual. Fortunately, this time around, there is no scheduling conflict with DemoCampMontreal so we can happily attend both. It’s Yulbiz’s first anniversary too.

4. DemoCampMontreal2.

Hot on the heels of Yulbiz, there will be five new demos in this free-to-attend and free-to-present un-conference meeting of Montreal’s Tech Scene. Geeks, Tech Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists will all be there.

If you’re an astute geek or tech-oriented business person who reads my personal blog at YashLabs, you are most probably already using FireFox and have installed the Operator plugin, which will enable you to easily add these events into your online calendar. All are open-source and free technologies.

Technology is fun. It’s also an enabler for business and can be used to further humanity’s evolution at an accelerated pace by favoring cultural exchanges and fostering the sharing of ideas.

Today, there are unprecedented ways of connecting like-minded people throughout the world and enabling them to collaborate towards a single vision, or towards a call to action.

I wanted to gather in this post, all the people in Montreal who have been using these technological channels to try and bring about some needed change in the world. So here are the people and projects that I know that have as objective to make a positive social contribution:

1. Gifter.org - Austin Hill and Ben Yoskovitz. A possibly related project is Akoha (previously Project Ojibwe)

Make a wish by dropping a coin in the wishing well and $1 is given to charity. Sponsors provide the funds.

2. Atwater Digital Literacy Project - Miriam Verburg

The Atwater Digital Literacy Project, a project of the Atwater Library, gets kids and community groups using creative web technologies (blogging, audio, video, digital photos) to find new ways to talk about things important to them, and to help them build their communities.

3. île Sans Fil, CivicAccess - Michael Lenczner

ISF provides free wireless hotspots in Montreal and ways for content creators like artists to make their work known online.

CivicAccess:

Welcome to Citizens for Open Access to Civic Information and Data, a group of citizens which believes all levels of government should make civic information and data accessible at no cost in open formats to their citizens. We believe this is necessary to allow citizens to fully participate in the democratic process of an “information society.”

4. Listen To Your Kids - Julien Smith

Listen To Your Kids connects kids that want to share with parents that want to listen.

5. FACIL

FACIL = FACIL pour l’Appropriation Collective de l’Informatique Libre. FACIL educates about and promotes the use of Free computing resources, like free software and open-source software.

6. Homeless Nation - Daniel Cross

The Homeless Nation is Canada’s only website created by and for Homeless Canadians. Through a national network of outreach workers, The Homeless Nation Project is dedicated to providing the tools for homeless Canadians to share their stories, unique philosophies and points of view with other Canadians. As well, this site provides an opportunity for the general public to interact and learn more about Canada’s homeless population. We believe social change is an interactive process, and HomelessNation.org is a means to starting this national dialogue.

7. Yellow Door

The Access Internet Project is three years old! As a now steadily expanding project, we cater to isolated seniors in the downtown area. Our goal is to introduce basic computer and Internet skills to seniors by matching them with a volunteer that meets them directly at their home for one-on-one tutorials.

Thanks to Mat Balez.

If you know of any others or if you are involved, do let us know.

Courageously reporting from the trenches of Montreal’s Tech Scene while simultaneously effecting T-Shirt Distribution Duties, Josh of YashLabs and of The Montreal Tech League, has a recap of DemoCampMontreal1 online.

Feast your eyes on this daring display of amazing multi-tasking powers over at YashLabs for Part 1 and Part 2.