Are Canadians, um, different?

I'm planning FTP's first show in Canada (Toronto, first week of May) and am sitting here wondering if developers “up” there have different interests than those in the US. Offhand, I'm thinking there are more multi-language issues (which is fine, because resource localization in .NET is so darned cool) but is there anything else? Devices? Industrial usage (like RFID tracking tags for mooses)?

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  • I know you know these folks, but maybe don't know they are in Toronto. You should ping Kate Gregory (RD, Toronto & INETA speaker), Eli & Marcie Robillard, Dave Totzke, Joel Semeniuk (not Toronoto,but another Canadian RD) and Craig Flanagan (MS) for a real insiders scoop

  • Great info! I'm doing the MSDN security event in Toronto on Feb 25th with SteveB and plan on knowing those privacy laws very well.



    It's actually really nice chatting with people that really appreciate all the nice ways you can localize your apps in .NET, and globalization with dates, etc.. is great!



    Thanks for the blog entry!

  • Don't forget - "z" is zed and not zee.

  • Not so technical, but equally important things for planning a conference up here...

    -we have a really good sense of humour and appreciate being entertained while educated.

    -development teams are generally smaller up here. Not that we don't have all the same issues as 150 person teams do - but we make do with less.

    -hockey is very important to us and VSLive falls smack dab in the middle of the playoff.s There are likely going to be at least 2 cdn teams still in the playoffs during VSLive and if one of them is Toronto - then evening bof sessions aren't going to be as highly attended during HNIC.

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