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The second Nitobi Hack Day will be happening on Feb 9, 2008 from 10am to 6pm. You can come and start hacking at 9 things will officially start at 10am SHARP! Of course you can always come by later and if you don’t know anyone just ask for someone that works at Nitobi to show you the ropes. You can signup over at Upcoming.

The event is meant to bring hackers from around Vancouver to the Nitobi office and dedicate a day to building something amazing! That something can be hardware, software or whatever. The hacking is generally focused on Ajax (of course), social networking (Facebook apps anyone?), wireless (Joe and I got this covered), AIR / Flex, and web development in general - of course the hacking can still be robotics, Wii hacks or whatever you think is cool.

Nitobi will provide the foosball, beer, prizes (like books, shirts, software and an IPod Nano) and you provide the hax0r skillz.

Be there!

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