Okay so I'm a bit behind my other postings on this but...
DemoCamp Edmonton 6 is in the pipeline. DemoCamp Edmonton 6 is going to take place on March 11th at 6:30. It is going to take place in ETLC Room E1-013. If you would like to demo please sign up on the DemoCamp wiki (if you have any trouble let me know and I’ll enter you in). Also if you are interested in attending you can check out the wiki, facebook group, or the blog.
As always please help us spread the word and let people know about DemoCamp.
For those of you who haven't made it out to a PKN or are unfamiliar with what Pecha-Kucha is; the way it works is that presenters have 20 slides, set on 20 second auto advance, to talk about the project that they are working on. This keeps presentations, short and makes speakers get to the point. It's a fantastic format as ideas get boiled down to their basics and if there is presentation that doesn't interest you it'll be over in under 7 minutes.
Thanks to Elicia, Cary and the PKN team for getting this rolling, the first events were great and I'm pumped for this one.
Closing out 2008 it is interesting to look back at what happened through the last 12 months. For the most part I'm happy with 2008 and what was accomplished during the year. BarCamp and DemoCamp Edmonton were both started this year and saw a lot of growth. We went from 65 people in the basement of the Business building at the U of A, to having 100 people at BarCamp, and close to 150 people at our last DemoCamp. Overall it has been great to see the tech community as a whole grow this past year. The crazy thing is that after a year of so many people getting together every week I meet/find out about another company or person doing something cool in tech in Edmonton. I'm really stoked to see the tech community continue to grow in 2009 and learn from and support each other. Mack Male has a great post on many of the awesome tech happenings that took place in 2008 if you are interested in seeing an even bigger run down.
Personally 2008 was a crazy year. I starter the year in the WestLink program working with ThinkTel Communications and as of August began working as the Product Manager at Nexopia. Working with the Nex team the last few months has been great and we're looking forward to what 2009 holds for us.
There are so many people I need to thank for all the work, advice, opportunities, support, etc. this past year that I'm worried if I start to thank some of them I'm going to leave way too many out. You know who you are, THANK YOU very much for everything this last year. I'm pumped to work with everyone again more in 2009.
One of my goals for the year was to blog a lot more, I pretty much failed at that, and hopefully 2009 will see more action on my blog.
It's DemoCamp time again in Edmonton. DemoCamp Edmonton 4 is scheduled to take place on October 29th at 6:30 at the U of A ETLC room E1-017. It will be great to have the community together again and see some more great things that are going on.
As a part of the community building process, we're looking for
people to help spread the word. We'd like to challenge everyone to tell
a few people about Democamp and physically bring at least one new
person to the event. Additionally we're looking for volunteers to help us target
different groups of people in a more organized fashion. If you want to
help us spread the word to schools, media, demoers or service
providers, let us know. We really want to grow a focused team of people
to make democamp Edmonton the best it can be.
If you are interested in attending or demoing or helping, you can find out more
information and sign up on the wiki at www.barcamp.org/DemoCampEdmonton4
If you have any questions feel free to fire me off an email. See you there...
Edmonton Startup Semanti Corp. took their place on stage at Demo 08 in San Diego. Semanti is a Firefox plugin that sits on top of Google allowing users to search based on word's semantic meaning, the results are shown in a box above your google search results and are based on what other sites users have said belong in those categories. Check out their presentation at DEMO 08 (embeded below). Check out www.semantifind.com to sign up for their beta.
Happy Blog Day 2008!!!
Here are 5 blogs that I love to follow and you might find interesting on this
fine, sunny (in Edmonton), blog day.
1.Metacool: Diego Rodriguez blogs about design,
business and innovation.His posts
always end up having something cool and thought provoking in them.One of my favourite posts of his was a recent
one on startegy.
3.Marc Andreessen’s Blog:Founder of Netscape, Opsware, and recently
Ning.Marc is currently taking a break
from blogging, but always writes great posts on entrepreneurship, start-ups,
and life in general.
5.Joel on Software: Joel Spolsky blogs about
coding, creating a great work environment, productivity, and all sorts of
things relating to creating great software.
I hope that you find a blog on here that you haven’t heard
of before.I would love to hear what
blogs you find interesting.
