We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us.
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Egypt's January revolution was not caused by tech but tech played a role, as a cursory glance at ReadWriteWeb's stories on the country show. Internally and externally, geeks came to the fore. Now that the country has rid itself of its former rulers, there is still a lot of work to do.
On May 14, a group of 75 Silicon Valley technologists, computer science students and others met at Stanford for a Cloud to Street hackathon designed to create tools Egyptian activists have requested.
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We've mentioned the library at the monastery of St. Gall before, in our article "Check the Original Sources: Digital Manuscripts Online." If you're interested in the middle ages or in the digitization of our history, you'll come across Switzerland's St. Gall. Its library is so extraordinary it has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
St. Gall isn't resting on its admittedly substantial and ancient laurels. It has now helped to create an entire website devoted to a very important subset of its manuscripts, the St. Gall Monastery Plan website is devoted to "the earliest preserved and most extraordinary visualization of a building complex produced in the Middle Ages."
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