Koumbit's Corner

Koumbit has just moved into a new office on June 15th. Please click here to see our new address and location.

Our new office space is a loft in Parc-Extension (a multi-ethnic neighbourhood of Montreal, next to the Outremont rail yards). To get there, walk six minutes towards the South from Parc metro (blue line) or the 80 bus terminal (if you come from Downtown). By car, take Parc Avenue or Rockland Drive and turn on Beaumont Avenue. On the pictures above, you can see Koumbit's working members enjoying the newly installed wi-fi connexion, as well as the very first sysadmin meeting to be held on the new premises.

The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Foundation's new website has won a Bronze award in the Public Service category from the Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading international interactive media awards. The seventh annual competition received over 1000 entries from 20 countries around the world.

A website built in partnership with Koumbit

The Drupal-powered website was developed by Montreal's Design Postimage with the help of Koumbit. Launched in December 2007, it includes a wide assortment of features—events calendar, forums, live chat, photo and video galleries, downloadable audio clips, online donations, etc.—that encourage increased user interaction and participation, and allow for communication to be targeted at specific groups: donors, volunteers, staff and the general public.

http://www.muhcfoundation.com/en/node/2768

The assembly will be held at Centre St-Pierre, 1212 Panet St. in Montreal, room 203 on Sunday, october 21st. The schedule of the day is listed in our Wiki and the remainder of this article.

Omar Bickell, one of the founding members of Koumbit, has been interviewed by Michel Dumais on the show "Citoyen numérique" (digital citizen) on CIBL 101.5 FM, August 23rd at 13h. Listen to the interview (ogg) to know more about the motivations of Koumbit workers, our use of Free Software and its impact on our clients, Drupal and about the workshop which will be held during the Quebec social forum.

The Montreal-based international development NGO Alternatives has chosen Koumbit to provide 10 days of training for its "Furetez dans le monde" (Browse the World) interns.

This internship has been developed in collaboration with the NetCorps Canada International program, and aims at helping emerging countries develop their ICT capacities, while furthering the skills of 19 to 30 year old Canadian youths.

Your eyes didn't fool you : Koumbit has just completed the migration of its web site to the new and improved Drupal 5 platform. Among the most important improvements were :

At a recent meeting Koumbit decided to sponsor a gathering of Montreal based Drupal developers and users to take place on March 23rd at 1:30 PM at the Intertainment Café - 1425 René-Lévesque West. Registration is optional.

While we have yet to even decide on a final name for the voting.gnuvernment.org project, Koumbit.org recently decided to invest $1000 towards getting it off the ground. Clearly this is just a drop in the bucket for a project with such a wide scope, but it is a good beginning.