Closing Out 2008

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.

Comments

[Mack D. Male]

Looking forward to more posts from you Cam! Happy New Year!