Montreal / Quebec

Does anyone want to have that meetup as our regular planning? RSVP by friday at noon, if there are 4 positive responses, we'll make it, otherwise we'll fail. :)

This meetup is supposed to be in some Cafe somewhere, so if you have a suggestion as to where to do the meetup, that is also welcome. If no proper suggestion gets in, the meetup will take place at Bande-Passante (8655 Saint-Denis, next to métro Crémazie).

Yesterday was the 2nd Journée portes ouvertes Design Montréal. Thanks to Bluesponge, the friendly creative agency we're sharing an office space with, my partner at Whisky Echo Bravo (our new Drupal shop) and I were there! Like many design, architecture or fashion firms in town, Bluesponge opened their doors to anyone interested.

Java Developer
DATE
30/04/2008
OFFER #
11-3001
Status
Permanent
Employment location
Montreal, Qc

Profile
We are looking for a high energy, creative problem solver with a passion for software development to join our client's team.
The JAVA developer will be responsible for the full cycle of development including; programming, coding, tests, integration, follow up, documentation all while ensuring top quality control.
You must have solid Java Development experience on Linux with swing and Eclipse.

Education
BSC or MSC in Computer Science or Engineering

PHP Developer
DATE
30/04/2008
OFFER #
91-1000
Status
Permanent
Employment location
Montreal

Profile
We are looking for a high energy, creative problem solver with a passion for software development to join our client's team.
You will be involved with designing, developing and deploying new WEB projects, as well as extending existing successful applications.
Duties and skills

The next codeFEST PHP Québec 2.1 will be held in Montréal, Canada, May 16th to 18th, 2008

Senior & junior developers from the PHP, Python, Ruby, Java community are invited to join us for 2 days of optimization & unit/functional testing of your favorite Open Source project.

Proposed Projects:
* PHP
* Drupal
* WordPress
* TikiWiki CMS/Groupware
* BeWelcome
* Habari
* Your project! (Contact us contact@codefest.ws)

Goal:
* Improve the performance & reliability of Open Source projects
* Improve code quality of Open Source projects by writing unit tests

Here are some notes that were quickly thown together regarding the upcoming DrupalCamp to be held in Montreal in October (probably) 2008.

Note that these don't even incorporate all the ideas that were present in the initial post about this event. So while this will always remain a work in progress, right now it doesn't even qualify as a first draft. This is a wiki page... please feel free to edit it.

That's right folks, Koumbit.org has decided to host a DrupalCamp in Montreal! While we are still at the very earliest planning phases here, the idea is to hold a 2-3 day open-space style event in Montreal the first weekend of October.

While bigger and better than the small meetups of recent years, it isn' t as crazy as a quarter-million-dollar DrupalCon.

More than ever, the Drupal community is overflowing with interesting stuff to discuss and/or to work on. Come find out what's hot and what's not about Drupal 6, internationalization, new modules, the Drupal association, the Montreal DrupalCamp2008 (oh yeah!) and much more. Depending on how many people show up, we may decide to break out into work groups to help move things forward on multiple fronts.

Anyway, whether you are a newby, a power user or a developer, don't miss this meetup!

BTW, this meetup will be held at the Bande-Passante (@BP: 8655 Saint-Denis, next to métro Crémazie)

BTW, BTW, if you are interested in coming, please sign-up with the button provided below... it'll help us keep track of things.

Location: Java U, 5511 Monkland Ave, Montréal
Time: 6:30pm - 9 ish

If you want to learn more about how Drupal development works by actually participating in the process, and you'd like some help getting an environment setup so you can try your hand at patching, CVS, and all that stuff, then stop on by!

Director of Technology WEB
DATE
27/02/2008
OFFER #
200-101
Status
Permanent
Employment location
Montreal

Profile
Overall Objective: The Director of Technology is responsible for the SW and technical realization of a project.
The director of Technology oversees the work of programmers and developers.
It seeks solutions to circumvent the technical constraints that hinder the achievement of a product or threaten compliance with the specifications and it is responsible for the matter of R & D.
Responsibilities

Hi all.

In April, I will be moving to the Cornwall, ON area, and I am considering coming to your meetings, since Montreal is closer to me than Ottawa. Are your meetings generally French or English? I would guess English by the conversation in this group... but I figured I would double check. While I can understand some French, I would suspect that I would miss lots of the information were the entire meeting to be held in that language.

I look forward to meeting you all!

We are looking for a senior Drupal developer to help us develop a media project for a leading media company. You'll need to speak french/english. It is an emergency. Duration of the project : 3 to 6 months part time (at least half time). You will not have to be on site but be available for regular conference calls. You might have to travel to Europe at the end of the project for 2 or 3 days. Please send me your resumé and your daily rate here : info(at)mignon-media.com.

Last month we had a great time, meet a few people and discussed amongst other things the schedule for our meetups. We decided to make Friday's meetups in the afternoon, so in April we should meet the 11th at 14h. But February is not over yet, March is waiting for us with DrupalCon in Boston, so we're going to meet right after that, Saturday March 8th from 14h until 17h. Everyone is welcome, of course :)

At a recent Koumbit meeting, we came up with a proposition to build a little momentum around Drupal in our beautiful city, by having regular themed meetups once a month, the second Friday (@BP) one month and the second Saturday (@WiFi) the other. This brings us to this Friday, when you're all invited to Bande-Passante (@BP: 8655 Saint-Denis, next to métro Crémazie) from 19h to 22h to talk Drupal. In March, we could meet Saturday the 8th in the afternoon at any Café with wifi (île sans fil map). Leave a comment to suggest a bugfix for the schedule, location or format :)

Please RSVP if you're logged in.

It's a little late but I figured I should still post this... There's a CodeFest this week-end where a bunch of geeks from different web applications will be present to share and implement a bunch of cool features like Microformats into their favorite CMS. This event wouldn't be possible without the sponsor, PHP Québec. It's open to anyone although it might get a little crowded at la Bande-Passante. I still hope to see you there, Saturday or Sunday :)

8655 Saint-Denis, Montréal (Québec) - exit south from Crémazie métro, walk 30 seconds and you're there.

Nous recherchons un spécialiste drupal qui maîtrise particulièrement les organic groups pour nous assister dans l'élaboration très rapide d'un site internet participatif.

Contactez-moi pour plus d'informations.

Simon Emmanuel Roux
simon@communautique.qc.ca

I am seeking a social network site to be built with drupal. I would like a clone of mypraize.com. I am looking forward to hearing from some of you.

Email me at mike.yupangco@gmail.com

Thanks

Per mvc, we're scheduling the next meetup during the week, and the topic will be Lightning Talks, so plan to talk for 5 minutes or so on a Drupal topic of choice, or to show off a site you recently built, or whatever!

When: Friday, December 14, 2007 from 2PM - 8PM (that way some of us who work during the day can make it later)
Where:
LAST MINUTE VENUE CHANGE! Bande-Passante (Koumbit's office) near metro Crémazie (30 seconds walk)? 8655 Saint-Denis
L'Utopik, 552, rue Sainte-Catherine Est (Map)
(Unless Internet isn't working (again ;)), in which case we'll be at Cafe Vienne, just down the street at the corner of St-Hubert and Sainte Catherine.)

Dinner was awesome, but it's been way too long since we had a proper meetup. :) add1sun from the Drupal Dojo and Lullabot is coming up to visit, so let's have another one of those "everyone come to the same Internet cafe and hang out and talk Drupal/hack" kind of things.

When: Sunday, November 11, 2007 from 1PM - 5PM
Where: L'Utopik, 552, rue Sainte-Catherine Est (Map)

Dries Buytaert is in Montreal for the ooPSLA conference. We're going to have a Drupal dinner!

When: Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 6PM - ???
Where: Commensal, 1720 St-Denis Street (Map)

Hey folks!

Do you need to build a website? Are you a developer that provides Drupal solutions for clients? Do you represent a Drupal shop that is looking to hire Drupal developers or to establish collaborative relationships with other Drupal shops? If you have answered "yes" to any of these questions, this meetup is for you!

In the world of open source software the name of the game is "coopetition" and Koumbit embraces this concept completely. We therefore invite you to the first Drupal Open Market in Montreal. The goal of this session is to allow:

1) users to find and compare Drupal services providers,
2) for Drupal services providers to meet other Drupal shops to evaluate potential collaboration,
3) for Drupal shops to find developers to hire, and
4) for developers to meet each other, etc.

So I'm thinking Friday, the 21st... how does that sound to you folks? Once we get a few comments, we can pick the date before Monday.

We can't all make it to Barcelona for the DrupalCon so come on down join the party in Montreal!

Y a t il des drupalers à Quebec city ? Are there drupalers in Quebec city ?

Would you be interested in a meet-up by august or september ?

Tentative date for the next meetup : June 29.

Probably at some ile-sans-fil hotspot, unless someone comes up with a better place. The agenda is open for now, but that will be just before the freeze, so some last-minute patch testing could come out of this. What would you like to talk about?

Here are some issues that have been identified during today's Montreal Drupal Meetup. This document was written collectively by some of the attendees in a Gobby session (so please don't shoot the messenger! ;-)). A wiki page seemed like the next logical step. Maybe some of these points should be posted in the issue queue (if you do so, it could be nice to edit this page and add the link).

Come join us for some Drupal coding fun in Montreal at L'Utopik today! On the agenda are testing i18n patches for core, and wrap-ups from attendees of DrupalCamp Toronto, and probably some other fun, hacky things. :)

UPDATE: L'Utopik's internet is down, so we're down a block at Cafe Vienne.

800, rue Sainte-Catherine Est (I think, corner of Sainte-Catherine and Saint-Hubert)

Since I know internationalization is a big deal to Canadians, I figured I'd cross-post this to some groups. Please don't kill me, this is important. :) There's very little time to get these patches in before code freeze! (June 1)

The following patches desperately need reviews from people familiar with internationalization of site content. The goal is to get Drupal 6 to have internationalization right in core:

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- translation of site settings, content types, user profile fields
and so on by storing translations of their string properties with

Hi, folks. I wanted to drop a quick note to all Drupal-folks about an
upcoming conference in Montreal that I'm helping to organize.
Éditer

[fr]

Hi,
I'm looking for an experienced Drupal trainer. We have programmers already using PHP but it looks like there's something we don't quite grasp yet about the Drupal oriented mind. We've been fumbling with it for a while now and we need a guide helping us see the light. French speaking would be required.

Thanks

It's on! DrupalCampTorontoII is happening in May. For information, registration and session proposals please check out http://drupalcamptoronto.org/ . Hope to see you there!

We will be getting together Wednesday, April 4th from 1pm - 5pm @ Bande-Passante for yet another meetup.

The difference this time is that you all have enough forewarning and have no good excuse not to show up. ;-)

The other difference this time is that we will structure the meeting in a "show and tell" format. After all, often one of the hardest things in Drupal is choosing which methodology is the most appropriate for any given task. So we'll discuss the challenges we have faced and the solutions that we have come up with resolve them. So while you still have the option of tooling around with your projects (e.g. the stuff you have to do for work), there will be tons of valuable stuff to learn.

Anyway, I hope to see you all there.

More than one position available. Local/regional applicants only please.

Koumbit is a Montre-based non-profit organization seeking to both empower community groups and to develop a collaborative and participative workplace. Koumbit has been growing steadily for the past two years and we are now looking for workers interested in joining our passionate team. We are looking for people interested in working on web development (mainly Drupal) but also in remodeling their own workplace and participate to the management and democratic life of the organization. This means that we are looking for people with good collaborative skills, interested in getting involved in non-technical as well as strong technical tasks.

I was reading about the Barcelona Drupalcon which will happen at the end of the Québec Free Software Week (SQIL) and it got me thinking... I poked Omar with the idea, but figured I might as well share it here now and see if there is any interest.

Come on down to La Bande-Passante from 1pm - 5pm on Sunday, March 18 for an informal Drupal meetup. Sorry about the short notice, but feel free to come! :)

The address is 8655 St-Denis, very near the Cremazie metro.

Note that a small ($1) donation is required to use the facility. Thanks a lot for the space!

I had the pleasure of meeting up with Angie (webchick) the other day and we came up with a few ideas regarding the planning of meetups in Montreal.

The main conclusion was that, given that there seem to be as many people wanting these things to take place on weekends as there are people who would prefer them on week days, we thought that it might be appropriate to alternate between the two. Note that we also thought that it might be nice to alternate the location of the meetups too between the Bande-Passante and other locations... some of which have yet to be identified. Based on the above, I came up with the following proposed schedule for the next couple of months:

** READ THE FULL POST FOR THE UPDATED SCHEDULE **

We've just launched the new SQIL (Semaine québécoise de l'informatique libre) website in Drupal, migrating from the 2005 WordPress we had. The SQIL 2007 is taking place in September with Software Freedom Day so you all have 6 months to come up and organize interesting activities.

We're also looking for a little help with the site, so if you have experience with multilingual Drupal sites and/or organic groups, don't be shy and let us know, we could use a hand :)

The Québec Free Software Week (called "SQIL", for Semaine québécoise de l'informatique libre) is actually 9 days of activities promoting free software. Everyone is invited to organize an activity, be it a meeting, demo, installfest or software launch.

Have a strong desire to help great progressive organizations make the world a better place? Looking to work with a fantastic team of Drupal developers and build out some really cutting edge sites? Can you write code better than a thousand monkeys with a million years on their hands?

Trellon is a development shop based in Washington, DC and we are looking for a few good programmers to work with our talented team of Drupal developers on some big projects. We’re offering a 1 – 2 month contract to build out a couple of client sites.

So let's talk about something like setting up like a bi-weekly "everyone be at the same place during time X to time Y" thing, totally informal, but where we could see some friendly faces who don't give you a blank stare when you say "Drupal." ;)

a) Where should we go? L'utopik has kind of a funky hippie vibe, free WiFi, and is pretty spacious. Any other suggestions?

b) What times during the week work best for folks? Wednesday evenings? Sunday afternoons?

Ho ho ho and a hey hey hey!

Are you about to spend the holiday season isolated in front of your computer doing the Drupal work that your boss/client wants you to do? If so, here's your chance to break the isolation and/or to do some of the work you want to do. Some of Montreal's most advanced Drupal developers will be getting together to hack it out on Friday at:

Café Art Java
837, Mont-Royal E.,
Montréal, Québec,
H2J1W9, Canada
514-527-9990

Come one, come all! I mean, after all, how joyous would this season really be without a little Drupal sprinkled in there? :-)

Anybody up for a Drupal meetup between x-mas and the new year? Say... umm... the 28th or 29th?

Unless somebody else has a better idea (and is willing to follow-up on it), I'd simply aim to hold an informal hackfest aimed at bugfixes and/or cool stuff like install profiles, mass hosting, decisions + CCK, etc.

The idea is for this to be fun... this is the holiday season after all?

Any takers? If you are interested, please let us know which of these days would best suit you.

Yours drupally,

Omar

Hi Everyone,

We just wanted to re-iterate our offer to host the next Drupal Montreal Meetup. We're really interested in
the future of Drupal here, and in developing a solid community. Please consider our loft for the next
Drupal Meetup.

At the very least, try it out just once. :-)

De nouveau, nous aimerions offrir notre loft pour la prochaine reunion Drupal Montreal. Nous souhaitons participer a
creer une bonne communaute Drupal a Montreal. Nous croyons avoir un tres bon local a vous offrir...

Cheers! A bientot!

Andy Froncioni
GeoRouting Technologies, Inc.
Suite 7.110

Our company, GeoRouting Technologies, Inc., is looking to become involved
in Drupal development. For the moment, we don't yet understand enough of
the drupal framework to write code, but we do have this terrific 4000 sq ft
loft space that we'd like to offer as a monthly meetup site.

More details:
- large conference table
- LCD projector for presentations
- wireless network
- coffee and donut-like treats included
- located in the historic Nordelec Blgd in lower Montreal
( http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=1751+Rue+Richardson,+Montr%C3%A9al,+... )

We are a small Montreal-based company looking to start a Drupal application for
logistics and transportation. We would be in need of a Drupal consultant to
come in and give us a tutorial on the Drupal API.

Our aim is to come away with a firm understanding of the Drupal API in order
to write our own modules.

Is anyone interested ?

Contact Andy @ 514-829-0255

The meetup discussed here is going ahead as planned thanks to support from Koumbit.org and the Green Party of Canada. Yipee!

Please sign-up using the form below and be sure to invite others, with special attention given to your contacts working within NGOs, non-profits and advocacy organisations.

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This event will take place at 3720 Parc Avenue, 2nd floor (Montréal). Sign-up to stay informed.

Howdy folks. I guess that it is about time for us to start planning another Montreal meetup.

As discussed previously, the next one should probably not be limited to Drupal developers. In fact, I'd like to invite anybody interested in Drupal but put a special focus on NGOs, non-profits and advocacy groups using Drupal... but then that's just me. Who would you like to invite?

As for a date... ummm... I dunno, how about the 29th? This would give us time to get the invites out in time for orgs to adjust.

As for a place... ummm... I dunno... any suggestions?

Finally, as usual I will try to secure a small budget for this activity from koumbit.org gang. Of course, your contributions are welcome too.

Koumbit.org was honoured to host Montreal's first ever Drupal Developers' meetup this last weekend. Having a great tool is only a part of what makes the Drupal community strong. The rest stems from the increasingly vast network of individuals and organisations that are proactively providing each other with technical, logistical, financial and emotional support. While we are still at a relatively early stage in the whole "coopetion" game, there are many reasons to be hopeful and Koumbit is dedicated to helping in any way that it can.

hello fellow drupalistas!

i'm nonecknoel, a DrupalCamp Councilor and the Director of Business Development for Trellon, LLC - a Drupal dev shop.

For the next week, I'll be kicking around the old city of Quebec in search of internet. I would love to meet fellow drupalistas for drinks or food. Email me at noel (a/t) nonecknoel.com or txt me at +1.917.657.6999...

looking forward to meeting some of ya!

n^3

A chance for Drupal developers from the Montreal to meet and hack together. Koumbit.org will provide some drinks/food/other for the occasion.
The meetup has been moved to:

Café Art Java
837, Mont-Royal E.,
Montréal, Québec,
H2J1W9, Canada
514-527-9990

See you at on Friday 18:00.

My good buddy chx is coming to visit from Hungary at the end of July (the 27th - 31st). Let's show him a good time by doing some kind of hacking session some place in town. Any ideas on good venues, and anyone interested in coming?

How I picture this working is all the Montréal Drupal developer-types all meet at some public place with their laptops and do some pair programming, bug fixing, etc. I don't have the money to sponsor folks, but maybe we could all chip in and get some pizzas, etc.

If you're interested, please DON'T sign up to this event below, but instead go click the "sign up" button on Omar's Montreal Drupal Developers Meetup event.

As far as I can tell, our site www.forestlake.ca is currently the only working example of asterisk drupal integration. I would love to be disabused of this notion, so if there are other working sites out there, please let us know.

At any rate you can read about the "Forest Lake Telephone Company" at this posting on drupal .org: http://drupal.org/node/59187 or you can just register and try it out on the forest lake site. Go to : http://forestlake.ca/forestlake/?q=node/466 for instructions on trying it out.

The good news in all this is that I have an asterisk server all ready and working with Drupal. If you want to install and test the asterisk integration module developed by Malthus, you can do so by downloading and installing the asterisk module (http://drupal.org/project/asterisk) on your site. (Important, as far as I know, the asterisk integration module only works so far on 4.6. I do not know what plans Malthus might have to upgrade).