Communauto joins us as PodCamp Montreal sponsor for the first year, and we’re thrilled to have them. Founded in 1994, Communauto is one of the oldest and most important car sharing services in North America. More than 20 000 people in Quebec have already joined Communauto.

Communauto provides its members with exclusive access to its vehicles. By becoming a Communauto subscriber, you gain access to a fleet of cars that you can reserve at low cost for a half-hour, an hour, a day or longer, according to your needs. Located in the heart of your neighbourhood, the cars are available without delay, 24/7.

Communauto pays all the costs related to the normal operation of the service: vehicle purchasing, financing, registration, insurance, repairs and maintenance, as well as all administrative costs… and even gas!

Communauto in on Twitter @communauto and its iPhone application is currently in beta. Communauto 2.0, at your service!

Photo courtesy of Marko Kulik

Bottom : Jean-François Blais, Julien Smith, Michelle Sullivan, Sylvain Grand’Maison
Top : Laurent LaSalle, Hugh McGuire, Bob Goyetche
Absent : Laurent Maisonnave, Mitch Joel and Harold Boeck

We were also very lucky to be supported by volunteers, including students from Harold’s University of Sherbrooke class, Ile sans fil who provided the wifi, Christian Aubry and Manuel Angelini who, along with Laurent Maisonnave, were behind the camera for our live streaming, and Marko Kulik and Eva Blue, who were our official photographers.

Finally, thanks to all of you for making this inaugural event a big success. See you next year!

First of all, Marko Kulik was in charge of taking pictures of the organising comittee for PR. You will have the chance to see part of his work on another blogpost that will be published later today.

We also had the collaboration of Eva Blue which work and efforts constitute the core of all pictures of the event published on Flickr (at least, for the moment). You can look at her slideshow here :

Finally, if you took pictures at the event and want to share them, you should definitively join the PodCamp Montreal group on Flickr, or simply tag them as pcmtl.

iPhone and iTouch users will be pleased to learn that this website has now a layout dedicated for these devices. Please keep in mind that it is not fully integrated yet, so expect changes in the current of the week.

Express your love with our new badges! Now featured at the bottom of our site, these versions allows people that can’t be with us in September to show their support without using a false statement.

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That makes a maximum of 36 sessions.

Are sessions an hour long?

No, we plan 30 minutes for the speaker’s presentation, 15 minutes of Q&A and 15 minutes to move between sessions. Each session begins on the hour.