Grant Event on Monday

Raincity Studios is hosting the Vancouver stop for NewsChallenge -  a project by the Knight Foundation. The event is at the RCS HQ at 1 Alexander St. in Gastown on Monday, October 6th from 7-9PM.

The event features web veteran Susan Mernit who is driving the NewsChallenge project for Knight. Follow knc08 on Twitter to get micro-updates on their tour.

To attend, you must RSVP so check out the NewsChallenge Meetup Facebook event and/or Upcoming listing for NewsChallenge to express your attendance.

Get a Grant

Basically, this is a worldwide campaign to grant $5 Million to digital media experiments and which will innovate journalism. Certainly, Drupal, CMS, RSS (and other acronyms) are all part of the mix of tools which contemporary journalist use to spread their message in an engaging and participatory manner. The press release tells more about the big picture.

Drupal Camp Montreal

In the wake of Drupal Camps in Victoria and LA, BarCamp Vancouver and of course DrupalCon in Hungary, the undaunted Raincity Studios crew is now heading east to La Belle Province for Drupal Camp Montreal.

Raincity Studios' CEO, Robert Scales and Production Director, Francis Pilon are both making the trip to their home province of Quebec to collaborate with Drupalists this coming weekend, Oct. 3rd and 4th.

Bryght en Francias

With a French version of the Bryght Drupal install profile in the works, I suspect they'll have a chance to share with Francophone Drupalists seeking hosting and configuration in their preferred language.

Drupalists Koumbit are hosting the event and have a great plan in mind. They describe themselves as "a non-profit organisation which promotes the use of free & open source software by community groups in Quebec, Canada ..." Sounds very cool.

Koumbit are working closely with our man in Africa, Adrian, on the development of Ægir - the evolution of Hostmaster - the open source Drupal mass deployment project which is at the heart of Bryght Drupal hosting (see Adrian's presentation at DrupalCon).

In a few short weeks, I have taken in BarCamp Vancouver, Drupal Camp LA, Digital Identity World, Drupal Camp Victoria and Drupal Camp Seattle.

Launch Party Vancouver, MobileCampVancouver, National Digital Media Day (and others I'll leave out in the interests of brevity) and now BarCampVancouver2008. September continues to be action packed with events and conferences. BarCamp Vancouver kicks off with a party at WorkSpace (wines sponsored by Farmstead, thanks) this Friday September 26, 2008 and then starts at 9:30 a.m. at Granville Island on Saturday September 27, 2008. Get your creative, tech, hat on and throw your hat in and "dis-coordinate" a session. Newbies, old hands and everybody in between all welcome! Some great session ideas after the jump to whet your appetite but as per the unconference stylee the schedule won't be finalized until the schedule jam Saturday morning at 10 a.m.

National Digital Media Day is tomorrow! Lots of events Canada-wide. I'll highlight some in Vancouver after the jump.