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There is an Open Web Conference happening in town!

The Open Web is a conference showcasing open source technologies, communities and culture. We are featuring talks from all areas of open source technologies such as PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, XUL, GPL, Linux, Django, Drupal, HTML, CSS, Javascript and AJAX, XML, Apache, MySQL, Web 2.0, etc.

Unlike the other major conferences, this event is community driven and run by volunteers. This isn’t the first Open Web Conference happening, and in the past it has attracted many audiences from all over the world, and  have featured the biggest names in PHP and related topics and technologies.

Vancouver Open Web Conference

This event will be happening from Monday April 14 - Tuesday April 15th 2008 at the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre (VCEC), 999 Canada Place which is the largest conference facility in downtown Vancouver, located in the spectacular inner harbour.

The Vancouver Open Web Conference

The conference will open with a keynote session featuring Tim Bray from Sun Microsystems, the Co-Inventor of XML, and Zak Greant from Mozilla Foundation and Foo Associates.

A full list of talks is available at: http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/talks
See the talk schedule grid at: http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/schedule

In addition to our three tracks of presentations on both days of the conference, there will be time allocated for attendees to give short talks on topics of interest in a ‘Lightning Talk’ format.

The Open Web is a presentation of the Vancouver PHP Users Association, a registered non-profit association for the advancement of PHP and the Open Web. Tazzu is one of the Media sponsors for this great event, looking forward to see you there.

Registration Information: http://www.openwebvancouver.ca

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Vancouver Joomla Demo Camp review

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Here is a follow-up to the Vancouver Joomla 1.5 Demo Camp. I apologize that it is somewhat late, but hey… better late than never!

The Joomla 1.5 Demo Camp was held by Rastin, Arash, and myself at the Network Hub in Vancouver. Turn out was really good with over 20 people in attendance.

Vancouver Joomla DemoCamp - 02/2008

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Vancouver’s first Joomla Demo Camp

UPDATE: This event was moved from Saturday Feb. 23rd to Tuesday Feb. 26th

Hello Tazzu Members,

On Feb 26th we will be gathering together to discuss and learn how to setup and maintain a small website using the Joomla! CMS version 1.5 . We will be discussing Information Architecture and Template Design methods, tips, and ideas. You will also get to meet other people and learn about their experiences about the content management systems.

Date: Saturday, Feb. 26th 2008 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Location: At the Network Hub ( 3rd floor - 422 Richards Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada ). Our good friends Minna and Robert have been so kind and given us their beautiful work space for the entire day, and we’ll get free Wi-Fi Access too! Thank you Network Hub!

To read more and register for this event, please read the announcement on the rmd Studio website.

This event has been sponsored by:

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Joomla DocCamp - finer than a marshmallow roast!

Joomla DocCamp Vancouver BC Canada

Well, the Vancouver Joomla DocCamp was a huge success!

More than a dozen of us camped out at Network Hub for the day… and between the free-flowing Timmy’s coffee and delicious donuts - conversation wound its way around Social Networking, Open Source, Content Management Systems vs Blogs, and Drupal, Wordpress, and Joomla of course!

With free wireless access, a beautfully warm & dry place to hang our hats, an extension cord to plug our laptops into (slightly resembling an octopus afterwards), and an exciting new Joomla product, it couldn’t help but be a near perfect DocCamp - all that was missing was the campfire and marshmallows!

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Tazzu’s 2nd Networking Event at Milestones!

We had so much fun at our last Tazzu Networking Event (Nov. ‘07) that we decided to once again hold it at Milestones (Yaletown) — only this time in the Lounge!

We’ll still get the same great food, and the same great service, only with more room to move around!

Everyone is invited to join us… come network and make new friends. Don’t forget your biz cards!

TAZZU Networking Event

Date: Wednesday, January 30th
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Milestones Yaletown - 1109 Hamilton Street* (Vancouver)
* public pay parking around back

>> MAP
>> DINNER MENU

PLEASE NOTE: We’ll be seated in Milestones Lounge which seats about 30 people, first to RSVP are IN!

We hope to hear from you, and see you there!

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The 2nd Vancouver Facebook Developer Garage

Vancouver Facebook Developers' GarageOur good friend Gerald Bauer is organizing the 2nd Vancouver’s Facebook Developers (& Designers) Garage event at the Vancouver’s film school. The event will take place in Theatre 1 accessible from the main foyer. Reception will be in place to assist all guests.

When: Monday, January 28, 2008 5:30 PM

Where:
Vancouver Film School
420 Homer Street
Vancouver, British Columbia

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I attended the previous event and after viewing few quite amazing (and not so amazing) presentations I got to meet some really wonderful people such as Boris Mann, Roland Tanglao, Miss 604, my great business associate Ash Sanieyan, and of course Gerald himself. So this event will not only contribute to your development knowledge, but also a great opportunity to meet some really good people in the Vancouver’s technology and business community.

I will be there taking some pictures and blogging. Let’s see what our town’s developers have been cooking up lately.

Facebook probably has more than 60 million users by now. Some of us spend at least 15 minutes or more there, so it is part of our everyday life. Facebook is also a neat framework for developing web applications, and I know quite a number of developers who develop for Facebook including Gerald, Ash and myself (shameless self promotion!)

Btw: this is Gerald’s website. He is a very experienced Ruby on Rails developer and he has been very active brining the community of Ruby developers together, and Tazzu is gladly collaborating to spread the word. :)

Facebook Developer Garage Vancouver

Photography by KK+

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Happy New Year to all the Tazzu Members

We would like to wish everyone a peaceful, happy, healthy, and wealthy new year in 2008!

Happy New Year

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