Pick a time and a place and we could start something up.

If people want to join in, I've asked yesterday evening a couple of contacts if they want to host this kind of events, since all we need is a place. 

and there's also foulab.org, they're the guys doing montreal hacker space. 

I checked out Foulab a while back when they were getting started, I didn't really like the direction they were heading. They all seemed mainly hardware-oriented while I want to muck around with software. I'd like to see something a bit more oriented toward software hacking.

True, 

While I find hardward interesting, the last time I worked on robots/electronics/computer hardware was almost 4 years ago. now 95% of what I do is software (ruby,css,javascript and linux admin stuff) 

if we do this, I'd do only software personally. 

The thing is that foulab have a physical space :-) But we'll see. There's another place, waiting for them what they think about it

Yeah I'd do software too. Software is easy, you just need to a computer.

Foulab does have a personal space, but I think they're charging like $50/month to use it.

a great post here about this http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1380-unconferences

also here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon

http://www.flickr.com/photos/progrium/2126533900/

http://superhappydevhouse.org/

Nice, yeah it'd be cool to have a software shop like this here in Montreal. Do you know a good place to have it?

Hey,

I'm from foulab and I just thought I should mention that we are not only hardware oriented.  We do a lot of software (in fact most of our members are programmers) and would like to also do some digital arts.  We do have a space (foulab.org for details) and we do charge so we can pay rent for the space.  You guys should drop by to meet us (we don't charge for that ;-).   You should come check out our space rob, it's a lot more fun now that the paperwork is out of the way.

Well, I've got good news, there's a new company in town, they've got super cool offices on bvd st-laurent (aournd 4100) and they'd be happy to host this event. for free. plus other things. so it would be there. 

We could hold a 1st meetup in about a month... I've thought about a whole Saturday afternoon (say 6 hours of hacking, from noon). 

Well, I've got good news, there's a new company in town, they've got super cool offices on bvd st-laurent (aournd 4100) and they'd be happy to host this event. for free. plus other things. so it would be there. 

We could hold a 1st meetup in about a month... I've thought about a whole Saturday afternoon (say 6 hours of hacking, from noon). 

@guinness: Cool, I'll have to drop by sometime.

@heri: Sure, keep me posted.

On another note, the Montreal on Rails group which used to just be about presentations is switching over to a hackfest. It's supposed to be only Ruby, though, not sure how that affects things.

They'll be starting with this in about a month, I will keep anybody who is interested informed.