Category → Conferences
Confoo public events
The RSS feed wasn’t working, so I’m testing it by sending you information about the three public and free events for Confoo.
This year, we present three activities that will be open to the public
during the ConFoo conference.First, an opening party will be held at the Brutopia brew pub on
Tuesday February 28th from 6pm. Meet speakers, sponsors organizers and
attendees of the ConFoo conference in a joyful environment. The
Brutopia is located at 1219 Crescent.Next, a company from Montreal will present how it builds websites that
can handle over 100 million requests per day. This presentation will
be held on Wednesday February 29th, from 5 to 6pm. It will be
presented by Eric Pickup from Manwin.Finally, on Thursday March 1st, from 5 to 8pm, come celebrate
collaboration between technologies during our communities cocktail at
the Hilton Bonaventure hotel. The hotel is located at 900 De La
Gauchetière West.For more information about the ConFoo conference, visit http://confoo.ca
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Meet-up February 21st
This week was a pretty busy one since the last host of montrealonrails.com was shut down. We are currently running on an EC2 instance, if you have any problem, email me.
The first presen
tation will by by Olivier Melcher. He will take us away from the web with his subject : “Build awesome command-line applications with Ruby”. It will be an interesting travel.
The s
econd presentation will be by Gary Haran with “Start your Engines”. During this talk, we’ll see how to make a rails engine and find out why you’d want to create one.
At the same times, I have a lot of news for your.
Remember that Confoo is at the end of this month. The conference is almost sold-out get your ticket quickly. Confoo is also searching volunteers for the event. Send me an email if you are interested.
Hugo Frappier manage for us to have a 10% discount for the next RailsConf. We have 5 tickets available until February 29th. Don’t be shy and ask the code from me or Hugo if you are interested.
Interested in hopping on a bus to Boston on the weekend of March 3-5 for AngelHack and showing our American friends what the Montreal startup scene is made of?Context.IO has been invited to fill a bus with at least 30 Montreal hackers and bring them down to Boston for a one of the most prolific hackathons in North America.http://angelhack.com/WHAT IS ANGELHACK?
AngelHack brings together startup communities from around the country for a hackathon competition, judged by top Angel Investors, where participants build startup ideas. The only rule is all code must be fresh, so that everyone has a fair chance. Build your startup at AngelHack, win prizes, national recognition, and validation from Angel Investors on what they think of your ideas.
ANGELHACK 2.0
AngelHack 2 focuses on the startup communities in Boston and San Francisco and has over $50k in prizes to win. We estimate there to be over 600 participants for the March 3-4th event.
If you’re interested, your registration fee will be waived. There will be a small fee (between $20-$30) for the bus rental. Friday night accommodations will also be your responsibility, but Context.IO will work to get a great group deal at a hotel nearby. Keep in mind that Saturday night would be all hacking, so accommodations will only be required on Friday night. We’ll ride in Friday evening and take the bus back overnight on Sunday. Red eye FTW.
We need 30 hackers to be accepted to sponsor, so we’d love you all to come in big numbers.
This is an incredible opportunity for the Montreal Startup Scene. Being selected as a finalist or winner at this event would mean considerable press and visibility to some of the most high profile VCs in North America. Imagine Montreal took everyone by surprise with a win here? Let’s show them what we’re capable of!Brainstorm on the bus, build in Boston, be totally awesome. This is not a weekend you should miss.If you’re willing to commit, please submit your email address via the following form:https://docs.google.com/a/dokdok.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEhYU3JSWUM3clhYNFJ4Zkhldmk4RHc6MQ
As soon as we have 30 hackers, we’ll confirm our participation and follow up with all the juicy details!
When : January 21st, 2012 at 18:30
Where : Notman House
Who : Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby
How much : Free
Questions? : Contact me
EDIT : Replaced “Templating Engines” from Martin Provencher by “Start your Engines” by Gary Haran.
January – events + jobs
This month is a very busy. I got 4 events and 6 job offers to present to you. I hope you a ready for a long post 
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Events
The first event is organized by François Beausoleil at Notman House on February 2nd. Yes, your last president of Montreal.rb is inviting for an afternoon of Scala with Actors for Twitter analytic and a workshop evening of complex SQL queries. Being good in SQL, is always useful for any Rails developer. Both these events are free and you need to register (Scala, SQL). For more information, see François’ blog post.
The next event is The Cloud Robotics Hackathon (register here). It will take place at the Notman House from March 2nd to March 4th. I’d really like to see a Ruby team participating to that event. If you are interested, you can contact me, I’ll try to build the team.
The Cloud Robotics Hackathon aims to catalyse the creative process and bring roboticists, programmers, and hackers to produce social robotic applications that use collaboration between machines through cloud-computing, and natural interaction with humans in order to reach useful goals. The mains instance of the Hackathon will be held in Montreal, and teams around the world are invited to hack as well at on the same day under the same rules.
By encouraging makers and hackers to embrace the technologies of the future (being cloud computing and robotics) we ensure that today’s creative minds will be prepared for tomorrow’s challenges. Hackers are invited to let their imagination go wild and come up with their own project ideas. A sample project could involve a cellphone robot using cloud computing to understand speech, text-to-speech, and web services to play a text based adventure game with a human in a more natural way than typing and clicking.
Don’ forget that Confoo will occur from February 29th to March 2nd at Hilton Bonaventure Hotel. Don’t miss your chance to socialize with Charles Olivier Nutter (headius – JRuby), Marc-André Lafortune (Ruby MRI), Joseph Wilk (Cucumber) and more from Ruby and other technologies. See the sessions list and register.
The first edition of StartupWeekend is coming in Montreal for the first time Feb 3rd to Feb 5th. The goal is to team up with entrepreneurs, designers and developers and launch a startup in 54 hours. Show how the members of Montreal.rb are good at launching product. If you are interested, I can help you organize a Ruby team. Just send me an email.
We have sponsors such as Fasken Martineau, HEC Montreal, Real Ventures, BDC and also developer-friendly sponsors such as github, context.io or uservoice.We’re now partnering with StartupWeekend to give a 66% discount on tickets price (25$ instead of 75$), to encourage fellow ruby developers participate in the event. Send me a message to get the discount code.
Jobs
The first job offer is from GIGA Base. They are opening a software team in Montreal for the a China based company.
GIGA is an IT and Greentech company which is pioneering green material sourcing and construction in China with web-based softwares and services that evaluate project data, material chemistry and connect the entire green building industry.
GIGA is the go-to resource to find and source green products and services. Based in Shanghai, GIGA is an international greentech and green building pioneer. A global catalyst for safe, healthy products.
We believe architecture and product design can regenerate our environment. Our mission is to meet China’s growing demand for healthy products and services.
A totally new project is starting in Montreal. If you are eager to try to build you own company, this offer is for you.
Are you a rails expert?Are you sick of working on projects that never see the light of day? **I have 7 Customers waiting and ready to pay.
Are you interested in being a part of a project that will revolutionize the way mobile equine professionals (Translate: Horse Dentists…crazy right?) do their job?
I’m unlike any other partner you’ll work with. (Yes, I’m not your boss, we are partners in this together).I have been hitting the phones over the past 3 months working with hundreds of potential customers in this market and have ultimately flushed out a business problem that many of them face. The 7 I have ready to pay are the most passionate and eager of the bunch and will be our beta users.Here’s what I need: I am looking for someone who is ready to put in a minimum of 30 hours/week on this project. I also want someone who will stick around and support their own code while we beta and then start to add new functions and features. I need a creative coder who will help me make decisions and be a part of the entire development process, a long-term (paid) partner who is ready to kick some serious ass.By the way, I’m a huge fan of 37 Signals and so my goal here is to put out 1/2 of a product, get feedback, and refine. You’re going to love working on this!
If you’re interested in hearing more drop me a note at davidwalawrence@gmail.com or even better, call me at 514 926 7706 and we can go over the project in greater detail.
Qwalify (who paid the beers during last meet-up) is also searching RoR developers. They are based in Calgary but they are evaluating moving in Montreal. You can get in contact with them.
National Film Board of Canada is looking for someone to coach their Web team on finding the right BDD framework. Short contract of approximately 35 non consecutive hours. The contract must be completed by the end of March 2012.
Marc Lamarche from Swakes is also searching a partner/developer for his project. Don’t hesitate to contact him for any questions.
Recoset as searching for a DevOps guy. Contact them for more details.
This is it for January. I’ll see you all on February 21st. I’m still searching talkers. I’m counting on you.
Job offers
I’ve received a new job offer and a conference last week. I didn’t had time to post them so I do it today.
The job offer is from Antoine de Brabant from Jobbook. He should be at the next meetup on September 20th if you want to meet him in person.
Jobbook is looking for expert Ruby on Rails programmer(s) to lead the development project. Working with a team of motivated individuals in our 7000 sq. ft. downtown offices (includes basketball, workout center, showers, mini-golf…), Jobbook is an ideal environment for the Ruby entrepreneur.
We are launching next month across the top 40 Universities in North America, lead by our team of 50 student partners (including the Student Association presidents of McGill, Johns Hopkins, UCLA and UCBerley among others). This is a great time to join the team and help build the career site we’ve all been waiting for.Send your candidatures to Antoine (antoine@jobbook.com)- Share options and salary to be determined upon level of expertise / dedication to the project.
- Also accepting candidatures for junior positions.
The conference is a reminder of what was posted at the start of May by Francois. I should have three 10% coupon. If you are interested, send my an email. EDIT : The coupon for EvenBrite is MTLRUBYBOB. Here is Francois’ post.
Louis-Philippe Carignan from Elapse Technologies informed me that Robert C. Martin, Uncle Bob himself, is coming to Montreal to give his Clean Coders class. Uncle Bob will be in Montreal on October 24th and Quebec on the 27th. The class is 2 days each time. This is an excellent opportunity to get the best information!
Register on EventBrite.
For next meet up, I will post information about it tonight. I have some problem to find a local for us since Notman House has given our time frame to an other group. If you know a good place (free) around a subway station (preferably downtown), send me an email.
EDIT : Add EvenBrite coupon : MTLRUBYBOB.
Meetup August 16th
For the next meetup, on August 16th, we will have 1 talk. The first half of the night will be the Gem club.
The
first part of the meetup will start with the Gem club. Talk about which gem you use, you like, you dislike.
In the second part, Jonathan Palardy, will be our presenter. Here is the description of his talk :
Off the (Active)Record
Where does your business logic live? In the controller? In the model? Really?
Let’s talk about it.
Like last month, we will finish the night at the Benelux who offer us another free beer. This is the best place to talk with other people in the Ruby community in Montreal.
A little word about ConFoo : The ConFooBar will be held this Friday (August 5th) at the Pub le Ste-Elisabeth at 18:00. The day after, will be the ConFooBBQ at Mount-Royal park 13:00. The inscriptions for the ConFoo presentations are still open. Help me find the best speakers for this Web Conference.
Edit : Add Meetup information
What : Montreal.rb meetup
When : August 16th, 2011 at 18:30
Where : Notman House
Who : Everyone who is interested in Rails or Ruby
How much : Free
Meetup August + ConFoo
I’m a little bit late this month, but I would like to start by thanking Julien Guimont and Alain Pilon for their presentations. It was very interesting and I’m sure a lot of us will try what they show us. I have a lot of news today.
Our next meetup will be on August 16. I still search 2 talkers for this event. It’s a great experience to go on the stage and show something you already experienced.
The ConFoo BBQ will occur August 6th. Come and talk with the other Web communities in Montreal. Food, beers and it’s free, you can’t miss that.
The Call For Paper is also open for ConFoo until September 2nd. Help us create the biggest web conference in Montreal with a great Ruby track. This year, you can also vote for the talks you find the most interesting. If you want to help more, I search someone to help me organize the Ruby track of the event.
Starting of September, I’ll try to have sponsors for our events. I’m searching companies that would be interested in buying a second round of beer at the Benelux and would like to help us create t-shirt for Montreal.rb. It’s a great way to find employees and make your company known by the Ruby community in Montreal. If you know any company that would be interested, put me in contact with them.
Hackaton Context.IO and Cakemail
Sarah-Jane Morris, Community Manager at Context.IO, informed me that on July 13th, they are hosting a hackaton with CakeMail. You’ll have access to Context.IO, CakeMail, Xobni, Litmus API during the day. Prices and new APIs should be announced shortly.
They also have a twitter contest – anyone who follows @ContextIO, tweets about the event between now and the end of the day on July 12th Tand uses the hashtag #hackemail will be entered into a drawing for an all-access pass to Startup Fest! To be eligible to win though they need to be present at the hackathon when they’ll do the drawing.
For more information : http://hackyouremail.eventbrite.com/.
Clean Coders: Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) in Montreal on October 24th and 25th
Louis-Philippe Carignan from Elapse Technologies informed me that Robert C. Martin, Uncle Bob himself, is coming to Montreal to give his Clean Coders class. Uncle Bob will be in Montreal on October 24th and Quebec on the 27th. The class is 2 days each time. This is an excellent opportunity to get the best information!
Register on EventBrite.
WordCamp Montreal is looking for speakers
Shannon informed me that WordCamp Montreal is looking for speakers.
WordCamp Montreal is looking for speakers. The two-day event will take place on July 9-10 and include two tracks, for developers/coders and bloggers/users.
The ideal speaker has a WordPress-related topic they are passionate about and that they can present in 45 minutes with attractive PowerPoint slides and coherent explanations. Designers, Bloggers, Businesses and Developers are all welcome! Talks can be in English or French. Your topic should be specific to WordPress. Show us what you’ve made with WordPress and explain how you did it, or what you learned in the process. Give us concrete examples: code snippets, 10 important lessons you learned, specific advice on how to avoid problems, etc. Nothing is too hardcore, advanced, simple or beginner-level. We’re looking for diversity.
Lots of interesting things happening in the Montreal community these days!
RailsConf Promo Code for Montreal.rb crowd
Just a quick note to remind you that RailsConf is coming up. Baltimore, MD is the hosting city for this year, and RailsConf will be from May 16th to 19th.
O’Reilly graciously offered a discount code for the Montreal.rb crowd: get 15% off with code rc11usrg.
Hope you take advantage of this offer!