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 …read more

There are so many great tech events coming up (maybe I need to start doing the Upcoming thing again) that I’m just doing a quick post here with links to a few that I’ve seen recently:

StartupNorth » Blog Archive » StartupCamp Montreal 2 – May 15th, 2008
Drupal Camp Vancouver Set for May | Techvibes Blog
Toronto tech scene in the papers » ThomasPurves.com
DemoCampEdmonton (tonight!)

Of course if you have an event that you’d like me to know about (and therefore tell others about) feel free to drop me a line at tris [at] b5media.com (yep my old tris@ address works again, though …read more