iWeb Communities: Blog

Last week was quite busy for developers and techies. All sorts of events have been hosted under the aegis of the Montreal Open Source Week. Also known as MonDev, this week was intended to be a celebration of open source technologies and the communities that revolve around them.

iWeb was really proud to partner with one of the coolest events of the week: Make Web Not War (MWNW).

MWNW 2010 was held on May 27 and is one of the first conferences on the topic of interoperability and cross-platform development in Canada. The conference, which focused on the latest techniques and technologies available to the web community, was sponsored jointly by Microsoft and open source communities across Canada, including PHPQuebec.

iWeb, along with Microsoft, was there to present bounties to three promising projects developed in PHP and we are pleased to introduce them to you:

Evan Prodromou for Status.net:

StatusNet is an open source microblogging platform that helps you to connect and share in real time while using your own domain name. Evan is the founder of StatusNet and the creator of the StatusNet software. He is the CEO and lead developer at StatusNet, Inc., a company that provides integration and support services for this platform to brands and organizations.

Marc Laporte for Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware:

Tiki Wiki is a Content Management System (CMS) and Groupware application that can be used to create all sorts of websites, portals, intranets and extranets. Marc is an administrator and developer of the TikiWiki project since 2003. He is the founder of AvanTech.net, a company that specializes in the integration of TikiWiki CMS/Groupware based solutions.

Marc-Andre Lanciault for ImpressCMS:

ImpressCMS is a community-developed content management system that can be used to easily create and maintain dynamic, flexible websites. Marc-Andre is the lead developer of ImpressCMS and founder of INBOX International, a company that offers integration services of Open Source Web technologies to enterprises.

iWeb is proud to support local Open Source projects and truly believes in the strengths of interoperability for all types of applications.

The three projects were submitted to the Windows Web App Gallery so that they are widely available to IIS users. Look out for the apps to be featured on the Web Platform Installer soon. If you would like to submit an app please contact Arun at phponwin[at]microsoft.com or follow @phponwindows on Twitter. For more information about Microsoft and its involvement with Open Source technologies, swing by the Port25.ca Blog. Thanks again to all the developers at StatusNet, ImpressCMS and TikiWiki that worked on the bounties!

Front (left to right): Marc Laporte from TikiWiki and Evan Prodromou from Status.net. Back (left to right): Stéphane Jose from iWeb, Gladstone Grant from Microsoft and Marc-André Lanciault from ImpressCMS