MapleLeaf 2.0 Tech News: Sunday Night Speedlinking
May 10, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business
Few more interesting bits of news that I saw earlier today: DrupalCamp, cheap electronics and the wasteful culture, and a Montreal Codefest:
Information from the sessions can be found on the DrupalCamp Vancouver website and I’ll try to get a couple posts out of John as well.–DrupalCamp Vancouver Wrap Up » Vancouver Blog Miss 604
The consumer electronics industry is perhaps the worst offender. When you’re buying $29 DVD players or even $400 computers, throwing them out after a year or two has become fairly common. If something goes wrong with them, there’s no sense repairing them when the replacement cost is not that much higher. It’s a terrific environment for people who want and/or like new things but terrible for the environment. Sooner rather than later, consumers need to start realizing that there is a cost associated with buying cheap products with a short shelf life. Think about what all the consumer electronics you’ve purchased over the past five years would look like if you threw them into a pile on your front lawn.–The Disposable Economy Has to Change | Mark Evans
Codefest is a 3-day event due next week, from May 16th to May 18th. The event’s tagline is “2 days to optimize and improve your favorite free / Open Source project”.–Montreal Tech Watch » Upcoming: Codefest, a weekend coding session for open source projects
Again, this is a bit of an experiment here. Let me know your thoughts.
Not a hug fan of these posts. As it seems we are all readying from the small pool of good blogs, posts like this one don’t contribute a great deal of value.
I think this may be more appropriate if you have discovered a new blog that my be under-read, but posting excerpts from Mark Evans without adding to the debate or providing additional insight feels a bit like link spam.
Don’t post for the sake of posting. I’d rather read a great post from you once a week then wade through 5 of these posts.
These are exciting times for tech in Canada, and you’ve got a great platform here to talk about it.
Michael, thanks for the feedback. This is really an experiment do be able to cover and get attention for Canadian tech, but I also want to cover the larger scene as well.
Just trying to see what works. I agree on linking to a popular post isn’t going to do much if I don’t add some commentary.