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BetterMTL is for Montrealers to self-organize bottoms-up and speak with one voice.

It is a free open source project which allows you to create events, showing times and information for anybody that wants to attend, add information, publish, or help out.

# Who we ares

We are a group of community organizers of large and small mostly tech events in Montreal.

If you are organizing a tech meetup or are an active participant or volunteer in the startup community, the BetterMTL project will affect how you go about promoting and collaboration with other active groups in Montreal.

# How to get involved

Begin by ★ staring the [bettermtl.github.io](https://github.com/bettermtl/bettermtl.github.io) repo - we really appreciate your vote of confidence! It keeps us motivated to know you care about the success of this project.

Secondly, see how you can [publish](/create) an event.

# The Problem we are solving

Many activities conflict with one another and there are many sources of information — calendars in Facebook, in specialized websites like Eventbrite or Meetup, or independent mailing lists. It's haphazard — much time wasted checking for corrections or comments here and there.

Together we're creating a collaborative city-wide attention management platform for you and me, the people, to post an event, submit corrections, even publish a newsletter at same time, or let anyone else include your event in their newsletter — with a single click.

# The co-opetition
We hope to rally and merge a few groups of organizers-admins-curators to create a more collaborative event space for Montreal, for a better Montreal.

**Independently curated calendars**

1. [Montreal NewTech & Startup Events calendar](http://notman.org/event-space/#mtltech) curated by [<NAME>](https://www.linkedin.com/in/iliasbenjelloun)
1. [Your Meetups](http://www.meetup.com/find/events/?allMeetups=true&radius=50&userFreeform=Montr%C3%A9al%2C+QC&mcId=z278063&mcName=Montr%C3%A9al%2C+Qu%C3%A9bec%2C+CA&eventFilter=mysugg), see *Export to...* link on the right sidebar
1. Search the local [Eventbrite events](https://www.eventbrite.ca/d/canada--montreal/events/?crt=regular&sort=best&view=list), as you register to these, they show up automatically in your [Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/) for example
1. [Your own upcoming Facebook events](https://www.facebook.com/events/upcoming) feed, you can right-click *Upcoming Events* link, see lower-right sidebar, and add your calendar by URL into [Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/)
1. [MTLData Calendar](http://mtldata.com/calendar/) duplicates a lot of technical meetups posted by other groups
1. UPGlobal's (this is the Startup Weekend crowd) [Montreal Startup Digest calendar](https://www.startupdigest.com/digests/montreal) - you need to register to receive the weekly newsletter
1. [Montreal in Technology calendar](http://www.montrealintechnology.com/calendar/)
1. *Add your own favorite events lists here*

If you added all these calendars, great! You almost don't need BetterMTL.

We believe we can fix this mess. :-)

To contribute directly you can fork the repo and send us pull-requests, jump right into the [discussion](gitter.im/bettermtl/general), help prioritize [issues](waffle.io/bettermtl/bettermtl.github.io), and report new bugs
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BetterMTL is for Montrealers to self-organize bottoms-up and speak with one voice.

It is a free open source project which allows you to create events, showing times and information for anybody that wants to attend, add information, publish, or help out.

# Who we ares

We are a group of community organizers of large and small mostly tech events in Montreal.

If you are organizing a tech meetup or are an active participant or volunteer in the startup community, the BetterMTL project will affect how you go about promoting and collaboration with other active groups in Montreal.

# How to get involved

Begin by ★ staring the [bettermtl.github.io](https://github.com/bettermtl/bettermtl.github.io) repo - we really appreciate your vote of confidence! It keeps us motivated to know you care about the success of this project.

Secondly, see how you can [publish](/create) an event.

# The Problem we are solving

Many activities conflict with one another and there are many sources of information — calendars in Facebook, in specialized websites like Eventbrite or Meetup, or independent mailing lists. It's haphazard — much time wasted checking for corrections or comments here and there.

Together we're creating a collaborative city-wide attention management platform for you and me, the people, to post an event, submit corrections, even publish a newsletter at same time, or let anyone else include your event in their newsletter — with a single click.

# The co-opetition
We hope to rally and merge a few groups of organizers-admins-curators to create a more collaborative event space for Montreal, for a better Montreal.

**Independently curated calendars**

1. [Montreal NewTech & Startup Events calendar](http://notman.org/event-space/#mtltech) curated by [<NAME>](https://www.linkedin.com/in/iliasbenjelloun)
1. [Your Meetups](http://www.meetup.com/find/events/?allMeetups=true&radius=50&userFreeform=Montr%C3%A9al%2C+QC&mcId=z278063&mcName=Montr%C3%A9al%2C+Qu%C3%A9bec%2C+CA&eventFilter=mysugg), see *Export to...* link on the right sidebar
1. Search the local [Eventbrite events](https://www.eventbrite.ca/d/canada--montreal/events/?crt=regular&sort=best&view=list), as you register to these, they show up automatically in your [Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/) for example
1. [Your own upcoming Facebook events](https://www.facebook.com/events/upcoming) feed, you can right-click *Upcoming Events* link, see lower-right sidebar, and add your calendar by URL into [Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/)
1. [MTLData Calendar](http://mtldata.com/calendar/) duplicates a lot of technical meetups posted by other groups
1. UPGlobal's (this is the Startup Weekend crowd) [Montreal Startup Digest calendar](https://www.startupdigest.com/digests/montreal) - you need to register to receive the weekly newsletter
1. [Montreal in Technology calendar](http://www.montrealintechnology.com/calendar/)
1. *Add your own favorite events lists here*

If you added all these calendars, great! You almost don't need BetterMTL.

We believe we can fix this mess. :-)

To contribute directly you can fork the repo and send us pull-requests, jump right into the [discussion](gitter.im/bettermtl/general), help prioritize [issues](waffle.io/bettermtl/bettermtl.github.io), and report new bugs

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