The session schedule for PodCamp Toronto 2009 is now open for people to edit and to put their sessions into the time-slot of their choosing.
44 of the more than 50 sessions have been scheduled so far, so if you want to plan your time you can get a pretty good idea of how things will play out.  Needless to say that figuring out a plan with the more than 50 sessions being run over the two day event will be challenging for most.
There are so many interesting sessions being run …

Today Mayor David Miller announced on Twitter:
“Announced Toronto Helps toronto.ca/torontohelps -programmes to help seniors, job seekers, youth, tenants: please RT” – @mayormiller
In these times not only is it especially important for government to have programs in place to help people, but like with anything else online, nobody will ever use it unless the information is easy to find, easy to navigate, and designed in a way to let users accomplish their goals.
Besides Toronto.ca still looking like a website from 1996, Toronto Helps uses a horrible double select box navigation.  The …

Taking a cue from BookCamp London, a group of Canadians have organized an unconference in Toronto to bring together authors, publishers, and technologists to discuss the future of the book.  BookCampTO is a free one day event being held June 6th at the MaRS Centre already has a list of 45 session ideas that people have volunteered to lead, or that people want to hear discussed.
“The future of books, writing, publishing, and the book business in the digital age.”
Some of the 45 session ideas listed for BookCampTO include:

Building community to …

Keeping track of all the cool Toronto events happening was one of the main reason for this blog long ago.  And what do you know?  Other people since then have done a great job of putting together online calendars that you can use to keep track of them.
TOGeekEvents
@TOgeekevents is a twitter account that does a great job of finding all sorts of events happening in Toronto and has a public Google Calendar available that does a great job of bringing all these events in one place.  Not limited to development …

Camps and unconferences are some of the funnest events to attend in Toronto, they’re free to attend and they are always filled with great crowds, great speaker, and good conversations all around.  And it seems that in Toronto there are almost more unconferences than one can keep up with. But I was looking through the BarCamp wiki and I noticed the hugh difference between the number of unconferences being held between Canada and the United States.
If I may…
Canada

Feb 6th, 2009 – CSSSCampSaskatoon – by BarCampSaskatoon, Saskatoon, SK
Feb 11th, 2009 – …