[ April 10, 2008; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Ryerson University student Chris Avenir finally received comfort today after weeks on trial of facing expulsion over conducting a Facebook run studygroup for his Chem class [CBC article]. University officials originally pointed fingers at the online studygroup as cheating (in fact some members had posted answers to exam questions [canada.com]); however, Avenir himself did not [...]

[ April 3, 2008; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] “Just like DemoCampVancouver, this group is all about demoing your innovative idea to people from all areas of business. High tech, art, non-profit, or anything else; it doesn’t matter!” Welp, count me in! The event is free to attend, and it sounds like the round up so far is interesting (demo’s from the Flock guys in [...]

[ February 19, 2008; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Well it’s been too long - but, not long enough to plan world domination. So lets muse over our future plans in a more relaxing atmosphere of beers, and at our old stomping grounds no less. Get together with old friends, make new ones, and bring some ideas along with you. See you then! February 19, Tuesday [...]

[ December 10, 2007; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Derek Featherstone, member of the WaSP committee and usability consultant with FurtherAhead in Ottawa, is paying us a visit this early December to discuss usability and how it effects our design [...] Accessible mapping with Google Maps - an integral speaker for this standards based group! Derek has lectured internationally on the subject of usability and [...]

[ November 19, 2007; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) are holding a Professional Development day featuring Gord Christmas on the topic of Drupal, Open Source, and Content Management Systems in general. “The session will examine how these software applications work and how designers and developers can integrate them into their projects.” For further details, check out the event at [...]

If you’ve ever participated in CSS Naked Day, or love nerding it up with markup and usability, then Dustin is your right hand man. The Better Web Posse is very happy to present this month’s guest speaker: renowned markup guru and User Experience developer with Google, Dustin Diaz. Be prepared for some interesting commentary! Everyone is [...]

Jim Rutherford (www.digitalmediaminute.com) will introduce and discuss the exciting new technology that is the Adobe Flex platform. Topics to be covered include: An overview of the Flex SDK The open source nature of Flex Dispelling the myths of Flex Flex’s inherent support for standards Jim will also build a live Flex application using open source components [...]

If you’re not celebrating the American’s Independence, come and celebrate your own! It’s that time again for another round of not just drinks but good, solid learning here at the Posse. I can’t tell you what’s in store yet, but it will either be Rails or sIFR related - and a possible appearance from the [...]

Hey folks - taking a break from the speaker thing and just having a casual beer togetherness time. So bring your best nerd talk and see us there! Same place, same time: Swans Hotel, Pub area (map) 6:00pm Thursday, May 31st

That’s right, we want to MEET YOU. Special people like yourselves who work in the web industry to just give us 5-10 minutes on what you do and where you do it. Here is who you might be: Project Manager Entrepeneur Technical/Copy Writer R&D/Q&A Web Developer Web Designer Sales/SEO Blogobrity Ze Frank’s twin We provide the laptop and the projector, you present yourself! Easy as [...]