Bryght - Vancouver

Mobile Camp Vancouver

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:14:07 -0700

Start: 2007/11/24 - 10:00am

End: 2007/11/24 - 5:00pm

Start: 2007/11/24 - 10:00am

End: 2007/11/24 - 5:00pm

Location: WorkSpace, 21 Water St. Vancouver

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MobileCamp is an ad-hoc unconference-style meetup for anyone interested in the mobile web. Connect with mobile web developers, designers or content creators in and around Vancouver to discuss, share and extend your knowledge on how to design, develop and market mobile web apps, services or content.

event homepage and see also: BarCampVancouver, DemoCampVancouver, FacebookCampVancouver

Mobile Monday Vancouver

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:04:42 -0700

Start: 2007/11/05 - 6:00pm

End: 2007/11/05 - 9:00pm

Start: 2007/11/05 - 6:00pm

End: 2007/11/05 - 9:00pm

Location: Granville Island Brewing

MOMOVAN Is coming make sure you register!

Every first Monday of the month 100 of the smartest local minds in the wireless, web 2.0 and new media meet and exchange their ideas about innovation and real entrepreneurial experiences in an effort to make out BC wireless industry sustainable and our community a better place.

DemocampVancouver04

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:34:00 -0700

Start: 2007/11/22 - 5:30pm

End: 2007/11/22 - 7:30pm

Start: 2007/11/22 - 5:30pm

End: 2007/11/22 - 7:30pm

Location: Workspace, Gastown 21 Water Street, Suite 400

This DemocampVancouver#4 is going to be the last one before Christmas and is at Workspace. We're looking for sponsors to host a social venue after the event because it was so successful last time.

Remember, we want to mix the tribes: invite friends from marketing, film, television, gaming, investment, or other non-tech areas, and encourage them to present.

Use the wiki page to also show attendance if you like, but mainly to add more info about the demo that you'd like to pitch, or ideas that you have: https://barcamp.pbwiki.com/DemoCampVancouver04

China Access 08

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:40:37 -0700

China Access 08 is meeting at Workspace Gastown on Tuesday November 13 at 6PM. The meeting is going to cover "what's new?" "what's changing?" and "what are the best companies doing about it?". Focused on strategic business opportunities in China, the meeting is planned to be two hours long. Alan Carroll executive chairman, Pacific Rim Forum is going to host a presentation on "The Ten Most Critical Insights about China that will help you Succeed in Business". To finish up, Andrew Gilkes executive director, China Access 2008 is hosting another presentation on "The 10 'Better Question's To Design your Corporate Strategy in China 2008-2010". The night will continue after 8PM for those who are interested and want to continue the conversation.

China Access 08

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:55:14 -0700

Start: 2007/11/13 - 6:00pm

End: 2007/11/13 - 8:00pm

Start: 2007/11/13 - 6:00pm

End: 2007/11/13 - 8:00pm

Location: Workspace, Gastown

China Access 08' is taking place in Workspace Gastown. The strategic business meeting is going to emphasize on ICT and the CREATIVE DIGITAL INDUSTRIES

A unique regional business meeting focused on the strategic business opportunities in China!

6PM - 6:30PM

Drinks and Informal Networking

6:30PM - 7:00PM

The Ten Most Critical Insights about China That Will Help You Succeed in Business Alan Carroll, Executive Chairman, Pacific Rim Forum

7:00PM - 7:30PM

The 10 "Better Questions" To Design You Corporate Strategy in China 2008 - 2010 Andrew Gilkes, Executive Director, China Access 2008

7:30PM - 8:00PM

A panel discussion of the key strategic and operational issues being faced by foreign companies in China today.

8:00PM

Adjourn to dinner for those who want to continue the dialogue.

Web Directions North 08

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:20:31 -0700

Start: 2008/01/28 - 12:00am

End: 2008/02/02 - 12:00am

Start: 2008/01/28 - 12:00am

End: 2008/02/02 - 12:00am

Location: To Be Determined

This is a CSS + JavaScript workshop so save this date on your calendar.
Event Home Page here!

Free the Net Vancouver

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:22:42 -0700

Start: 2007/10/02 - 6:30pm

Location: Bryght Office, 1 Alexander St. (gastown)

Free the Net is having a meeting at the Bryght offices for the Free the Net initiative

Organizational and visioning meeting for participants in the Free the Net Vancouver initiative. Come along to buy a node ($70), bring your expertise from similar projects, or just to find out what's going on and how you can get involved

Launch Party Vancouver

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:08:52 -0700

Start: 2007/09/27 - 5:00pm

End: 2007/09/27 - 8:00pm

Start: 2007/09/27 - 5:00pm

End: 2007/09/27 - 8:00pm

Location: Section 3 Vancouver, Yaletown

Come meet some of the Bryght guys!

Launch Party Vancouver is a lively mixer for the city's brightest entrepreneurs, tech junkies, bloggers, investors and marketers, who are doing it, have done it or want to make their ideas happen here. The goal of the event is to foster a deeper connection among BC's growing community of Internet and new media leaders.

Grab a cocktail, set your iPhone to vibrate and get ready to swap some cards and have some fun with others, who share your interest in technology and new media.

Content Convergence and Integration 2008: Changing the Content Management Landscape

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:19:09 -0700

Start: 2008/03/12 - 9:00am

End: 2008/03/14 - 5:00pm

Start: 2008/03/12 - 9:00am

End: 2008/03/14 - 5:00pm

Location: Sheraton Wall Centre

Bryght will be at Content Convergence and Integration 2008: Changing the Content Management Landscape

We went from content silos to content management silos to enterprise silos. But by necessity, our need to share information is pushing us to collaborate beyond any arbitrary boundaries. What does this mean for our profession? By going to content management systems, are we just catching up with today, or preparing for tomorrow? Will Content 2.0 catch up to Web 2.0? Strategy A is bringing the first content management conference to Vancouver that covers content management from both the Web and XML structured authoring perspectives.

Unwire your block one Meraki at a time

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:29:53 -0700

There's no need to wait for the mythical City of Vancouver WiFi. Build your own WiFi mesh today with a Meraki box imported by Mike West with some help from NetEquality. Bryght in combination with the folks at Outcome3, Nitobi, Donat Group Enterprises, Communicopia, Elastic Entertainment and more daily are "unwiring" our very large extended Gastown block (Alexander to Abbott-ish initially with the goal being everywhere in Gastown eventually) of tech friendly companies. This means that anywhere you are in the mesh you will be able to use WiFi.

Raincity Studios social media maven Dave Olson explains what this means:

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When considering the usage patterns (home users at night, business user by day) there is certainly abundant redundant bandwidth available and yet no reliable way to just get online without trying a bunch of SSIDs, risking cleartext password, hacking through a backdoor or other scheme.

Developing Facebook Apps with Drupal VIDEO - Vancouver Drupalers August 2007

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:00:21 -0700

What if a Drupal developer could easily develop Facebook apps the "Drupal way" without having to learn the "Facebook way"? What if Drupal site admins could easily integrate their Drupal sites into Facebook? Boris has the full scoop about Drupal commodization of Facebook apps as well as the Facebook apps with Drupal presentation at the August 2007 Vancouver League of Drupalers from our friends at Project Opus / Donat Group who are developing a cool social playlist Facebook app that will be out soon.

Want more? Check out the video on viddler below (register with viddler to add your comments and tags in the video timeline below, full high resolution version on blip.tv)

Facebook apps with Drupal

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:39:45 -0700

Last night we gathered at the Bryght office for our monthly Vancouver League of Drupaleers user group meeting. Theoretically I help run the group, but Dale McGladdery does most of the heavy lifting.

This month Dale got the guys from the Donat Group to come over and talk about the set of Facebook API modules that they are building to make it easier to build Facebook apps with Drupal.

All I can say is....wow. James and Ross took us through how they built their Opus Player Facebook app, and we had lots of discussion / beta feedback. They've built something very interesting, and I can't wait to see it hit Facebook.

After mainly looking at the app itself (related but not yet integrated into Project Opus, although those are the future plans -- to mirror the functionality in Facebook on the public Project Opus site as well), we dove right into some code. Not yet available in Drupal CVS (soon!), there is some code posted here.

So what does this mean? Well, the Donat Group team built a great Facebook app, and just happened to implement it using Drupal. Along the way (and, um, at least one rewrite / refactor :P) they built a great set of base tools for interacting with Facebook APIs and generating FBML content. The Drupal framework gets another win for being a great flexible base to build all sorts of functionality on top of.

PhotoWalk and PhotoCamp @ BarCamp Vancouver

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:38:55 -0700

This weekend is BarCamp Vancouver and I'll be heading up a PhotoWalk on Friday night and a PhotoCamp on Saturday.

Here's some shots from last years late night photowalk at BarCamp.

If you're interested in photography, cameras, or just want to take a walk around east Van with us... it would be great to see lots of you out there. Here's the details. Get in touch with me if you have any questions. :)

PhotoWalk
- signup on FaceBook
- meet at WorkSpace
- 11pm, Friday August 17th

PhotoCamp
- signup on the Wiki
- @ Workspace during BarCamp Vancouver
- TBD, Saturday August 18th

Barcamp Vancouver 2007

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:10:06 -0700

Start: 2007/08/17 - 6:00am

End: 2007/08/18 - 6:00am

Start: 2007/08/17 - 6:00am

End: 2007/08/18 - 6:00am

Location:

BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees.

Barcamp Vancouver attendees are encouraged to give a demo, a session, a presentation, or help with one. All attendees are expected to be participants. All presentations are scheduled the day they happen. Prepare in advance, but come early to get a slot on the wall.

Presenters are responsible for making sure that notes/slides/audio/video of their presentations are published on the web for the benefit of all and those who can’t be present.

Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

Achieving Awesome Drupal Design - May 31, 2007 Vancouver League of Drupalers Meeting

Tue, 15 May 2007 11:51:16 -0700

Start: 2007/05/31 - 6:30pm

End: 2007/05/31 - 8:30pm

Start: 2007/05/31 - 6:30pm

End: 2007/05/31 - 8:30pm

Location: Bryght, 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400, Vancouver, BC, V6A 1B2

From the Vancouver Drupal.org group (the place to be for Vancouver related announcements, jobs, meetings, etc.) announcement :

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With spring finally feeling like spring we'll do our bit to beautify the web! I have a feeling there'll be a lot of interest in this one, so don't be late if you want a chair!
Achieving Awesome Drupal Design with Rick Vugteveen.
Rick Vugteveen shares his experience in Drupal design telling us how to make a site look stylish and modern.
Date: Thursday May 31st, 6:30pm
Location: Bryght Offices, 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400 in Gastown. [Map] (Details below).
You're welcome to bring refreshments, especially if you're a company with an expense account :-)
For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.

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