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April 27th, 2006

Toronto Tech Community Home

We need our own website.

So far our main hub has been barcamp.org, which we should continue to use for those events to be part of that global community, but we need something Toronto-specific to encompass all that’s going on here.

This sort of stuff:

I think a wiki & blog combination would be best–we could get a half-dozen really active people to run the blog.

There’s an opportunity for the mesh gentlemen to lead the community and become the rally-point not just through their big yearly conference.

Trevor Stafford could also fill this role with his forth-coming Red Canary.

Most likely though, I bet David Crow will be the one to give us all a permanent home.

A question in my mind is whether the net should be cast wide enough to include Ottawa–they’ve got some great things going on up there. (Iotum & Shopify, I’m looking at you!) I’m glad I made the trip to BarCampOttawa. Did you know Eclipse started in Ottawa?

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I see a somewhat larger issue that I cannot see being addressed in bringing talent and technolgy together. How do we encourage, educate,finace startups? Mark Kuznicki in his comments touched on it. We have the politicians talking about what they see for Toronto in setting it’s competitive edge, but the issue is bigger than political, unfortunately I seldom find that politicians are the answer to very much.However while politicians were involved, MaRS is a good example of trying to pull together academia, health sciences and hi-tech, bio meds, etc, although somewhat beauracratic in my opnion.
Why are we not looking a models that appear to have worked well for structure and then the develop strategy to execute. Most of us have seen recent articles of the Kitchener/ Waterloo corridor as an example of successfully responding to major economic shift.
Communitech, started in 1997 with an aim to lead the promotion and recognition of Waterloo region as a Tier 1 tech cluster in North America. They are well on their way of achieving that.Do we have anything in the GTA that is comparable?
I am certainly willing to step up to the plate to help create.

Posted at 10:28 am on April 29, 2006 by David

Thanks for the mention. We are very, very close. In fact if I could get a hold of Sean Wise for my article on advisory capital I’d be that much closer.

I’ll email you tomorrow John…and show you and David the test site. Actually your post has just given me an idea that I’ll run by you and/or David tomorrow.

There is a desperate need for all sorts of information on all sorts of levels - tactical/strategy, community, and national. As you’ll see I am making this call as well.

T

Posted at 10:27 pm on May 2, 2006 by Trevor Stafford
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