Join other developers, designers, technologies junkies, and entrepreneurs for Big Sky Dev Con on June 11th 2016 at The Commons in Bozeman.

• The conference is designed for software developers, web designers, and business leaders in the technology industry.
• Attendees from all over the State of Montana.
• Last year’s conference covered many subjects including creating a tech startup in Montana, web frameworks, mentoring, financing, and much more. We had 165 attendees.
• Montana Programmers was established in November 2008 with just four members and has grown steadily to nearly 1200 members and 490 sessions.

More details and the Friday night BBQ are on meetup.

Freedombox was kickstarted quite a while ago, as a result of a challenge by Eben Moglen at Columbia Law. The challenge was to the tech community to build an actual device that cheaply connected to the Internet and provided all the useful services in a way that respected the owners’ privacy, had no backdoors, and kept control of the users’ data. This was doable, but not easily. Over the past few years, the project has creeped along, beset by the usual opensource problems and personalities, … and a forest fire.

I had quit watching the project a couple years ago, but happened to check for any current activity while bored with listening to vague worries on the news that somewhere someone might be talking amongst themselves without proper surveillance. And Lo, oddly coincidental with the events of the past week,
it lives!

I slapped an image onto a RaspberryPi2 and started playing with it. There are several applications I would be happy to explore if anyone is interested.

The demo is live, and thus pretty convincing. The implications (in the end comments) are substantial.

Enjoy! Comments welcome.

 

We hosted a LAN Party playing C&C Generals, had a lot of fun with a turnout of 7.  Hope to
make this a regular thing!

 

There is a growing trend within the coworking trend to take a “vacation” at a coworking hub in a great location.  MT Space has a ways to go before we are in that market, but it isn’t a bad notion for a longer term goal.

Here is a blog article about a coworkation in Bali.

We have procured legal aid to get legit.  We will be meeting Fridays at 4pm moving forward for constructive input!

Yesterday we secured our first dedicated home!  Stay tuned for details and desk space availability.

Welcome to MT Space!  We are building a modern incubator for business and community, stay tuned!