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Evan Prodromou, famous for his work in the open source community, with wikitravel, vinismo, keiko and most importantly the Internet’s first federated and open source microblogging status.net service, has launched Open Up. It’s a blog covering tech startups who believe in and produce open source software.

With the Ubuntu Global Jam fast approaching, the Ubuntu-Quebec community is once again organizing an event to get together, find, track down and fix bugs, in Montreal (and inviting anyone interested in helping out to join us). The event will take place Saturday and Sunday, September 3 amp; 4, 2011, starting around 9 am.br /br /Many thanks to a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Ekomputes"komputes/a for doing the work of organizing the event and getting everything ready.br /br /This time, our local Global Jam event will be hosted at the Canonical offices here in Montreal!

Confoo is looking for the best speakers willing to share their skills and experience with developers and managers.

This year, Confoo is dedicated to software development, project management and best practices. The technical part covers different aspects of Web development such as: PHP, Python, Ruby, .Net, Java, security, content management systems, frameworks, databases, system administration, Web standards, mobile development, accessibility and software architecture.

Confoo is looking for the best speakers willing to share their skills and experience with developers and managers.

This year, Confoo is dedicated to software development, project management and best practices. The technical part covers different aspects of Web development such as: PHP, Python, Ruby, .Net, Java, security, content management systems, frameworks, databases, system administration, Web standards, mobile development, accessibility and software architecture.

Whether you’re a business that utilizes Facebook for marketing, or a regular user (like most of us), you should check out this killer app called Booom!.   Booom! was developed by Trevor and Karim of  Toronto-based Big Time Design. Booom! allows you to receive the information you want from your favourite brands and pages on Facebook.

VentureBeat wrote a couple of days ago how Amsterdam aims to attract tech entrepreneurs. The article highlights the infrastructure (events, places, communities) offered by existing startups and individuals, and how it paves the way into making Amsterdam a place known in Europe for innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship.

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So we're doing it again!br /br /It's obviously getting a bit on the late side to announce this, but I only got the confirmation for our location this weekend -- after work or when I had a second, I wrote the a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quebec/2011-March/006501.html"Ubuntu-Quebec mailing list invitation/a, dented about the event, and created the a href="http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/842/detail/"LoCo directory entry for this event/a already.br /br /So once again, people wanting to help improve Natty Narwhal or who would like to know more about bugs, triaging, fixing bug