We received last week a lot of attention about blitzweekend, mostly from Montreal but also in Canadian and in international blogs, which adds up to the regular mentions in MontrealTechWatch and QuebecValley
Mentions in Montreal:
DIY blog, wants to participate
Gagnerericwebware is very interested, and has setup a widget to search for blitzweekend mentions on twitter.
woot.org is a developer and likes the event.
Stephane Daury announces he will be participating in the event.
jponrails is a ruby on rails developer and announces blitzweekend 3 times. Looks like he has a whole network of websites.
Mentions in Quebec:
Present Profit, a blog by a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs finding funds for their ventures. They outline what the event would bring in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship in Quebec.
Mentions in Canada:
StartupOttawa invites its reader to get a team together and come to Montreal
StartupNorth describes the event as an “ad-hoc launchpad” for startups
Ottawa web weekend wants to do the same event in Ottawa for April, and wants to setup a team for Montreal.
Mentions worldwide:
web1979 is in London and says there is now a lot of activity in Montreal
Web Addict (South Africa)
ReadWriteWeb (originally New Zealand, but readership is mostly US)
zerosumdirt, a Ruby On Rails developer who discusess the merits of constraints-driven development
Techcrunch France invite canadian entrepreneurs to participate in the event.
The most interesting blog posts were the one coming from startupnorth, which pretty nailed what we ultimately want to offer for entrepreneurs. Also, ReadWriteWeb, as usual, have done a great job in getting some perspective and what this could actually mean for developers. Time constraints is most of the time an underlooked issue, although everyone is aware how having milestones, deadlines, tight schedules can actually have huge impacts in terms of results. I have discovered it myself when doing blitzmaker, and it is a true eye-opener on what you can actually do. It was was a stressful, although ultimately, good surprise and experience for me.
Last week, I also met 30+ developers at the first MontrealPython meetup (slides below), and invited attendees directly to come up for blitzweekend and for the upcoming 5 à 7, in the case they are looking for extra team members.
February 28th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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