Long time no blog. Well, a long time for me -- it's been more than a week, which is pretty unusual. To be fair, I've been blogging on my Wikitravel Extra blog, since we were spending our week in Puerto Rico.

We had a great time while we were there. Our last few days we spent in Luquillo, a colonial town turned beach resort northwest of Fajardo. It has a great beach and some of the best food shacks in PR, so we managed to really enjoy ourselves. We also took some time hiking in El Yunque National Forest, the only tropical rainforest in the US national forest system. (I've actually visited the temperate rainforest, the Quinault, in the Olympic National Forest).

Probably my big regret is not getting to Culebra, which according to Biella and other sources is perhaps the highpoint of Puerto Rico. We just didn't manage it, but there's something to be said for saving good things for the next visit.

tags: wikitravel travel puerto rico get-together07

Visit from my parents

My mom and dad came for a week-long visit last night (less than 24 hours after we landed on the plane from San Juan. They're going to visit our new house and spend some time with Amita June. They're going to get to see some of the nicest weather in Montreal. The early spring is really the greatest time to be here.

tags: amitajune mom dad montreal parents visit

BarCampMontreal2

We're coming up fast on BarCampMontreal2, the second BarCamp in the Montreal area. We've had two DemoCamps this year, which have been great for getting people interested in the *Camp idea. I think BarCampMontreal2 is going to be a real hoot.

The event is going to happen Saturday, April 28th (that's 8 Floréal to you and me) from 9:30AM until the early evening. I'll be presenting and so will Maj. The list of registrants (BarCampMontreal2Registrants) reads like a Who's Who of the Montreal tech scene, including some more Debian and Ubuntu people this time around. Good deal!

This will be the first BarCampMontreal at the SAT, on 1195 blvd. St.-Laurent just south of St. Catherine. The venue is huge, has great A-V equipment, and is definitely funky. Hopefully the bar will be open at some point.

tags: barcamp barcampmontreal barcampmontreal2 sat event

Speaking of Camps

I've been working pretty hard on our RecentChangesCamp event here in Montreal, RoCoCoCamp. It will be a 3-day event, 18-20 May 2007, hosted by the international wiki community but open to all people interested in creativity, collaboration, and building communities.

Our list of RoCoCoCamp participants is getting quite long, and it looks like our RoCoCoCamp sponsors are going to help us cover the costs of the event. We've still got some people on our RoCoCoCamp invitation list who haven't gotten an invite; I've got some work to do there.

I'm excited, though, that so many people are going to be there. We're going to have the project leads for the most important PHP wiki packages -- MediaWiki, PmWiki, PHPwiki and TikiWiki. It'd be great if something came out of that! And Earle Martin of OpenGuides will be there. We're trying to work out an RDF interchange format for our wikis, so I hope to work on that issue, too.

Hopefully we'll find the sponsorship to make up our budget shortfall -- there are some Open Source developers and students that we'd like to give travel microgrants to. But I'm optimistic that more companies like Google, Atlassian, AboutUs, SolSeed Movement, Keiki, Wikia, and wikiHow will come through for us over the next few weeks.

All in all I think it's going to be a really cool camp.

tags: recentchangescamp rocococamp rocococamp07

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