Next Tuesday we will be attending the Guelph technology Showcase (1.0), being held at the University of Guelph Science Complex Atrium.
As this event will be focused at a slightly younger audience than the majority of events which we attend, we thought it was a great opportunity to debut a new t-shirt (and giveaway some shwag).
I present to you the result of this, the 3 Goat Moon shirt.
3 Goat Moon, yes the 3 Goat Moon
We will be holding a draw to giveaway 2 of these T-shirts. If you want to get your hands on one be sure to drop by our booth to enter!
We may be there or we may be wandering around the Atrium but hay the new T-shirt will give us away, come up and say hi, we talk to anyone.
We love the Internet, it continues to grow and weave itself ever deeper into our everyday lives — and we like it, we like what it brings to our lives, it gives us power to say anything we want and share anything we wish. So now we are hearing that SOPA and PIPA are swirling about and wow could have a real negative impact on OUR Internet.
So what is SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) – (YouTubes most watched and liked video says ….)
Yes, piracy is bad but is SOPA/PIPA the answer and if so what will this mean to the core principles of the Internet and openness, what will be the aftermath??
So last Wednesday we saw some real online activism protesting these bills and it was coming from the big internet players like: Craiglist, Google, Mozilla, user-submitted news site Reddit, the blog Boing Boing, Wikipedia and more – The New York Times call this the “Political coming of age for the tech industry”.
AND
In the wake of these online protects on January 18, 2012, as of last Friday (January 20, 2012) the vote on PIPA and SOPA has been postponed —
Time will tell ..
Gee I hope it was ok to post this YouTube video … and link to Michael Foley’s blog
Ok yes, we have lapsed into a non-blogging mode likely due to absence of Dave, a past GG team member who was so good at this blogging stuff. We will attempt to live up to his blogging antics but those mathematicians are a hard lot to outwit! For those of you who are looking for Dave you can find him spewing his words of wit and wisdom at any of the following: Dave’s analytics venture , his blog , LinkedIn, or his work where we think he is ca-hoots with other U of Waterloo grads at this start-up in the San Francisco Bay area, they are everywhere!
A Davism I love — something like, ‘every day should have at least 3 rejections’ –
Oh and for a bit of post Christmas teeheeing (again) regarding our cousin the Gavle Goat … wait for it folks, and no it was not us.
EVENTS — likely more but right now we are involved with the Guelph Technology Economy Conference 2012 “Creative Collaborative Economy” so a shout out there — it is happening January 17 so GO REGISTER — very excited about Eagle’s Flight doing some top secret group activity in the pm.
And really keen about the Guelph Tech and Design first trade show event, Guelph Technology Showcase 1.0, held at the University of Guelph, Giant Goat will be an exhibitor. So REGISTER and come and see us, we talk to anyone, really .. we do.
There’s more, new in 2012 … Mike is now jogging and seems to be very happy with the Ease into 5K app, Justin is really mad at the new bus system in town (and so are his friends), Matt, well, we can’t find him right now and I am attempting to like using Facebook, let’s see where that goes.
Well DemoCampGuelph18 was last night and although I was not able to stay very long it was still great to see what the Royal City tech community has been cooking up as of late.
They key note speaker was Mark Kuznicki who gave a talk about Change and the Social Web: How social technologies are changing citizenship. It is interesting to speculate on the changing role social media will play when it comes to engaging citizens in relevant issues.
My favorite demo of the night was given by Harry from SpeakFeel. He demo’d their new product, JoeMobi. It turns your WordPress blog into a native BlackBerry application, thus skipping the headaches involved with developing your own. With future plans for iPhone, Android and eventually a Drupal version, it sounded really promising. A LOT of people use WordPress, and A LOT of those people are not capable of developing their own app so I see this as a great idea.
On a lighter note, the food was great (not just because it was free) and I actually managed to get a pint this time!
PS – a big congratulations to SpeakFeel’s Andrew Simpson and his recent engagement!
Tomorrow night (Wednesday, September 14) there is the Guelph Web Maker Meetup at Symposium 7pm – Matt might get to this one.
DemoCampGuelph18 will be September 21st, a few of us usually show, it is across the street from our office — and we hear they need demos, if interested make sure you contact Brydon about that!! As usual it’s at the eBar start time 6:30, gets pretty crowded so if you want a seat get there early.
Ignite Waterloo 7 has started their speaker workshops to get you ready for this event, the first was on Tuesday September 6th at 7pm and the next on Wednesday October 5th at 7pm — the event date is still up in the air but I want to get to this one, its interactive, quick paced and if you get to speak good on you!
It’s over a month away but the Guelph Technology Forum starts this season on October 13 with a session on “Working with the University”
So the networking/meetup/demoing season begins .. let us know any good ones we have missed, we’d like to go!
