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.

Post from: EveryJoe

MapleLeaf 2.0 Tech News: Sunday Night Speedlinking

• 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 officially it’s tris.hussey) or leave a comment here.

Now, if you’ll excuse me let me see how I can add an Upcoming thing to my sidebar…

Update: I went over to Upcoming.org and started marking events in Canada related to tech and such “I’m watching” and found a handy little badge there too.  If you’d like to keep track of the Canadian tech events that I find, my attending and watching feed is available for you.

Post from: EveryJoe

Links to Tech events coming up