You just proved you can hack a WordPress site.  What about doing something useful with yourself instead?  Take that obvious talent and do something that might improve the world a little.  There are lots of not-for-profits doing great things to help people who could sure use your help.  Think about it.

You have cost us a little time and and a little bother while increasing the karma coming your way later . . .

Your choice.

(We will work to restore a few missing files if anyone is still looking for something that was here before - please let us know.)

1. Starting next Wednesday, we will begin holding weekly informal brainstorming sessions exploring innovation, startups (both for profit and not-for-profit), alternative energy, problem solving (if you need help with a particular project) and whatever else the attendees decide is most interesting :-)If you like to get on the invitation list please email event[at] innovationtoronto.com. We will start at 5:30 p.m. and end somewhere around 7:30  

Wishing everyone a very Happy 2008!

We would like to thank everyone who participated in our first forays into the wonderful world of startups. It has been a fascinating time and a vertical learning curve

To those who don’t know some of the background, we were not scheduled to initiate any activities until well into the first quarter of 2008. Then along came the great opportunities offered by the first Toronto Startup Weekend and Facebook Weekend Beta to start to get to know the startup and IT community in the GTA. It has been a great way to make new friends and start to shape the next steps for our an important part of our new Innovation Toronto focus.

After much discussion, it has become quite clear that there are some very interesting and timely things we can do to be of help to the community in general and address specific needs of the youth, startup and alternative energy communities specifically.

We would now like to engage those of you who may be interested in learning about and working together on our general plans to also get specific about what we might be able to do together in this brand new year. Is it an event or series of events that you need flexible space for? Is it finding resources and talent for your new project? Are you looking for a new adventure? Is it finding a new way to engage the community and give back?

Whatever your motivation, we would like to invite you to join in evolving our ongoing discussions and projects. Over the next few days we will be posting the outlines of a number of projects that we are most interested in seeing come to fruition. We would also like to hear about what you are working on and where collaboration might be advantageous.

You are invited . . .

Happy 2008