Dave Johnson

May 3rd, 2008

The next Nitobi Hack Day has been scheduled for May 24 - put it in your calendar.

Check the details at Upcoming or on the Wiki.

Last time was wicked awesome and by awesome I mean totally sweet. Lots of hacking got done and the beer was cold.

And if you missed it last time we also have another Ajax and Scotch event the thursday before so that people can plan their exploits.

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February 26th, 2008

It looks like Joe will giving a presentation on Free the Net at Open Web Vancouver this year!

Nice one Joe!

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October 21st, 2007

Nitobi Hack Day today was a great success! We had over 35 people in total throughout the day and ended up with about 8 or 10 presentations at the end of the day. Joe Bowser of Nitobi ended up being voted the coolest hack and won himself an shiny new iPod Nano. There was streaming video for most of the day and there will be videos put up on YouTube soon. Tweets can be seen from Andre, Brian, Roland and myself.

At the end of the day the keg of beer was tapped and there was a flury of activity as people tried to put the finishing touches on their applications.

Thanks to everyone who came out and made this event a very fun time! We will definitely be doing it again soon!

I will report on my Adobe AIR hack tomorrow once I get some much needed rest

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September 15th, 2007

While it may take the likes of Google to provide free wireless to the city of San Francisco, Joe Bowser has instigated a veritable stampede to get a wireless mesh installed in Vancity. Unlike San Fran this is from the bottom up - from the grass roots rather than the tree leaves.

In particular Joe is focusing on the Gastown area with the help of Nitobi and their local neighbours like Bryght.

If you are in Gastown or Vancity then get your wireless mesh node here for the low low price of $99!

A big kudos to Joe for getting this whole crazy idea off the ground!

Picture of Brian Leroux and Joni Rustulka (Joni do you even have a blog and pls twitter more!?!?) care of nep

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