a quick list of Montrealers doing stuff
UPDATE: if you’ve got a project on the go, send me an email at hugh AT dosemagazine DOT com or comment here & I’ll add you to the list below.
Julien’s bitchin’ cause Montrealers aren’t talking up their projects, I think, or because we don’t have a more “official” community of geeks. (Not sure what the advantage is to that). I think the main thing is we have no fluoride in our water, so we’re less prone to zombie-like following. There’s tons of cool stuff going on, here is just a list of people I know personally who are doing great things, in no particular order:
- Brett Gaylor, vlogger making a movie about creative commons and remix culture
- Mike Lenczner, free wifi implementer, civic data guy, and location-based portal person…
- Julien Smith, Canada’s most popular independent podcaster
- MC Turgeon, Canada’s most famous podcaster
- Sylvain Carle, semi-pro blogger, open source guy, and almost-launched start-up worker-oner
- Austin Hill, dot-com dinosaur and soon-to-be newly-minted 2.0 fellow
- Patrick Tanguay, (yul)blog evangelist, CSS wizard, and soon-to-be-publicized project partner of mine
- Paul Shore, indie news pioneer, political get-active-ist, and film-maker
- Evan Prodromou, puttin the wiki back into wikitravel
- Boris and Jeremy, bringing international blogging and news together
- craig, shining an eye on media errors and corrections.
- AJ Kandy’s transcribing podcasts.
- Casey and Rudy who are Canada’s best-known videobloggers
UPDATES (I don’t necessarily know these folks):
There are many more, some of whom I know and forgot to mention; others I don’t even know. So, for my money anyway, there’s no lack of activity here, and I seem to run into people doing interesting stuff all the time.
Montreal, action !
Why are all my recent posts about Montreal? Did I mention I never left for Rawdon as planned back in december?
Julien gets the ball rolling in his latest post about Google moving to Montreal (mentionned here) and looking to hire 200-300 new geeks. A bu…
Trackback by IM2 | OQP — January 27, 2007 @ 4:50 pm
There is no lack of Montreal-based project, but, you know Julien… always bitching… so… ;-)
Comment by Pascal Charest — January 27, 2007 @ 8:34 pm
I think there’s something to be said about our interest in marketing… that’s Julien’s beef, I think, we aren’t big on chest-thumping, and that means you have to be “in” to know what people are doing… it’s easy to get “in” tho, but still … the general population, and the world at large are not so interested.
Comment by hugh — January 29, 2007 @ 9:48 am
Chest thumping is part of it. Community is also part of it. We do gain from growing the community for lots of reasons - find partners to work on stuff, brainstorm ideas, network (who knows who I know or someone knows that might be of value to someone else), etc.
Closer-knit communities benefit because they help each other out more than we do right now as Montrealers.
Go to the upcoming BarCamps and DemoCamps btw…
Comment by Ben Yoskovitz — January 29, 2007 @ 1:58 pm
the barcamp folks need to activate that site… right now it seems to be a placeholder.
Comment by hugh — January 29, 2007 @ 2:39 pm
Got your trackback… now when do we get to meet you? Rudy and I will be at PodCamp Toronto… you going?
Comment by Casey McKinnon — January 31, 2007 @ 12:48 am
I just kinda took the piss out of you ( chez moi) Hugh, but in a spirit of loving kindness.
mir
Comment by Mirq — January 31, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
casey: yes… podcamp … i think we exchanged some emails about travel?
mir: it’s a list of people I know… not an exhaustive list. if you want me to know more women doing interesting things, then, please, introduce me.
Comment by hugh — January 31, 2007 @ 11:23 pm
Hugh: What page are you looking at? The pages that I know about (DemoCampMontreal1,DemoCampMontreal2,BarCampMontreal2) are definitely not placeholders…
Besides, what do you mean the “barcamp folks”? You, my friend, are one of the barcamp folks! ;-)
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