The Montreal Tech League

Where: Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), 1195 Boul. St. Laurent
When: Saturday, April 28th, 2007 at 9:30 a.m.

There are more than 25 presentations planned for this second edition of BarCamp in Montreal. Montreal’s Tech community and non-Tech community alike will gather at the SAT on boulevard St. Laurent for the whole day tomorrow.

It’s a free and open event. Anyone can attend, but all are expected to participate, either by presenting, by helping present, giving a hand at the organization of later blogging about the event.

Some of the Tech presentations will be:

1. EvanProdromou - How I learned to stop worrying and love the Semantic Web

2. www.mycarpoolstation.com - We supply web-based carpool stations to schools, workplaces, and regions in the U.S. and Canada.

3. Angel Anduaga - Podtattoo Laser Labs permanently laser etches any iPod/laptop/cellphone with any pic/logo/font you provide http://podtattoo.com

4. Sylvain Carle - Parralel Entrepreneurship and a few peeks a two of my startups…

5. Francois Lane - Cake Mail - Fully customizable white label email marketing platform http://www.servecake.com/

6. HughMcGuire - Starting-Up: mistakes I’ve made so far

7. Paul Wouters - DNSSEC 101: Or “How the Department of Homeland Security is NOT going to control your domains” http://www.xelerance.com/

8. Sylvain Carle - Ce que j’ai appris à San Franciso durant le Web 2.0 Expo (avec les développeurs, les marketeurs et les VCs)

9. Avery Pennarun - Versabox or Schedulator or Designing a Company Culture, depending on interest

10. Dave Coombs - Digital Security on Airplanes, and Why You Care (There’s no way I can make it tomorrow. I’m too doomed. Sorry.)

11. Michele Ann Jenkins - Wikis, Web 2.0 and Information Architecture: Wikitravel Extra

12. Martine Pagé - “Présence féminine/where are the girls” — a question based, panel like session about the lack of women’s representation at tech conferences. Is a “women in tech” list, like the one created in the U.S., a solution? Do we even need a solution? Is that a real problem? Une session bilingue (qui se veut davantage un panel) sur la faible présence des femmes dans les conférences reliées à la technologie.

13. François Proulx - iFIND : a location-based social software. Un système que j’ai conçu et développé au SENSEable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

14. Josh Nursing Hacking Thought - Systems Thinking and the Myth of Exclusive Or

15. Alok Mohindra - Making phones do funny things, proof-of-concept for FonoMe global inbound telephone service. Will demo plain old telephone to GoogleTalk voice integration using SIP, Jabber, and Jingle.

16. Marcella Lorenzi - Art, science, technologies ESG research group in Italy. http://galileo.cincom.unical.it. Looking for partners for common projects in art and science and/or communication of science. Presentation of some of the activities and products of the group (E=mc2; superstring installation; music from cellular automata, etc.)

17. Paul Farnell - Introduction to my company (SiteVista), and a demo of my Pecha Kucha presentation tool, delicious.salted.com

I will see you at BarCampMontreal2

Friday the 13th was actually a good date for Montreal and the Montreal Technology community. TechnoMontreal, the ICT cluster of greater Montreal, was formally launched at Ex-Centris. TechnoMontreal was born to help develop the economy through the promotion of Montreal as an ICT hub. Montreal’s Tech scene is constituted of 2700 companies in 7 sectors, and account for 1 in 10 jobs in Greater Montreal.

The web site itself has been online for a few months and has as its main goal the promotion of Montreal’s diverse ICT stakeholders.

My friend Laurent Maisonnave interviewed Lyne Bouchard, TechnoMontreal’s president and director about the vision of TechnoMontreal, for YULbuzz.

The interview is really interesting and Laurent asked a very good question concerning the financing of new companies.

Lyne Bouchard also mentioned that searching for Montreal in Google should bring results related to ICT and the economy and that it would be one of the future indicators of TechnoMontreal’s success as for the moment results are about cultural things in Montreal but not ICT. I noticed something similar about two months ago and wrote about it in the Montreal Tech League Forum which you can access from the link in the sidebar.

Another video to look at is TechnoMontréal en action.

“TechnoMontréal will help strengthen the position of Greater Montréal among world leaders in the field of Information and Communications Technology.” -Jean-Jacques Bourgeault, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Montréal International.

To do this, the ICT Cluster will develop initiatives to encourage networking among stakeholders in the sector and to create partnerships with scientific and university milieus, and sectoral associations. TechnoMontréal will also put in place strategies to further promote the industry and its successes.

There’s more about the launch in this article on Montreal International’s site.

“Montréal International will continue to work actively with TechnoMontréal and the other high-tech clusters. This will help increase the appeal of our advanced sectors and promote them worldwide. This productive complementarity of players in development is what characterizes the most prosperous urban areas and is a source of their strength,” Bourgeault said.

Well done Laurent for your first outing as an interviewer for YulBuzz, and congratulations to TechnoMontreal for its launch. It’s directory is big and helps bring more visibility to Montreal’s Tech Scene.

Stéphane Hamel m’a envoyé une invitation au Web Analytics Wednesday de Montréal.

La dernière rencontre, qui fut fantastique, eut lieu au Commensal et était dirigée par Stéphane.

Cette fois, les passionnés se retrouveront au restaurant Le Cartet, 106 rue McGill, Montreal, Quebec ce Mercredi 11 Avril 2007 à 5h pm et c’est Jacques Warren qui animera la soirée.

Il est possible que Sean Power de Coradiant fasse une présentation.

It’s Web Analytics Wednesday time again. Stéphane Hamel sent me an invitation and this time around his friend Jacques Warren will be hosting the meeting for Web Analytics fans at Le Cartet, 106 rue McGill, Montreal, Quebec.

The last meeting was fantastic. This time, Sean Power of Coradiant may do a presentation.