This week has seen exciting developments within the Edmonton New Technology Society. After the City of Edmonton IT Open House, the CIO of the City of Edmonton, Chris Moore, invited ENTS to discuss future plans on partnering with the city to advance the city’s open initiatives and further growth within the technical community. The city has also offered to loan us some equipment and resources to provide some interesting projects right out of the gates that everyone could participate in (things including a Microsoft Surface, photos of us playing with it are on http://d.ents.ca/).
Eric, Rob, Chris and Stephen and a Microsoft Surface
Our membership count is up to 45 total members signed on with the Society. From a sustainability standpoint, we’re almost there. The City of Edmonton would like to see us attain more members to ensure our future growth and sustainability. If you haven’t joined yet, now would be a great time! If we can reach our membership target of 60 members in the next two weeks, we can quickly proceed with the lease signing, wall building and begin our partnership with the City of Edmonton. We would like to start the first events later this month or early August and the more members we have signed on, the easier it will be to accomplish our goals. We’ve already requested the lease documents from the landlord of the space we’ve been talking about for weeks.
The City of Edmonton is looking to have ENTS host some exciting events within the Edmonton technical community. More details will be forthcoming as we fill in the details with Chris. (By the way, if you want to see what’s happening with Edmonton’s IT infrastructure, follow Chris on Twitter).
Also this week, Matt talked to Twitter and obtained the username ENTS, instead of ENTSca that we had been using. We’re quite pleased with Twitter’s support on it (the previous user hadn’t used it in over two years and had 3 followers) and we’ll be moving all the communications to the new username tonight. So, please go ahead and follow ENTS on Twitter.
The road ahead is looking very interesting for the Edmonton New Technology Society, with many projects and public interest from non-profits and corporations alike. The best part is the City of Edmonton is committed to supporting us in our core goals of social collaboration and innovation within Edmonton, and we’re very glad to have the support of the city in our endeavours.
If you have any questions about the society, our goals, our projects or want to join, don’t hesitate to contact us through the forums or the website, or you can call the directors at 780-701-9400.
