Open Web Vancouver is an independent publication based in Vancouver: practical writing on health, money and work, home and property, and the web. Articles are written to be useful on their own terms, in plain language, by contributing writers.
What is on the site
- 87 articlesHealthTeeth, treatment and staying well: dental care explained plainly, plus medical visits, senior care, recovery and everyday health.
- 41 articlesMoney & WorkInsurance, law and the working world: claims and coverage, hiring the right lawyer, and how businesses buy the services they run on.
- 34 articlesHome & PropertyKitchens, roofs, fences and the rest of the house: repairs, renovation, upkeep and what it is like to hire the trades.
- 26 articlesTech & WebThe web and the tools behind it: software, hardware, security, online marketing and how businesses show up on the internet.
- 25 articlesLivingPets, travel, food and pastimes: the rest of life, from puppies and road trips to what is in the glass.
The history of this name
This domain has had three lives, and the site is plain about all of them.
It began as the home of the Open Web Vancouver conference, a volunteer-run open source conference held at the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre in 2008 and 2009, presented by the Vancouver PHP Users Association. The conference’s story, its keynotes and the archived record are on the conference page, and the old conference URLs redirect there.
In the mid-2010s the name housed a blog about women in technology. From 2021 the site published general-interest articles while presenting itself as a digital marketing agency. It was not one: it sold nothing and answered no one, and those pages have been removed. What remains is what was always underneath, an archive of articles, now organized into sections and published under the site’s own name.
How the site works
Articles are contributed by their writers and edited for clarity. Some cover a service or a profession in a particular city; the site itself provides no services, sells nothing and takes no bookings. Where an article names a company or links to one, that is the writer’s reference and never a recommendation from the site.
Corrections
If something on the site is wrong or out of date, say so through the contact page. Messages are stored on this site and read by its editors, and corrections are made in place.
