The first Victoria DemoCamp is tomorrow 5.30pm, Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 834 Johnson St. (Juliet Living Demo Space, a.k.a. the OLD peacock billiards place). DemoCamp is basically a hipster geek term for people coming together to give demonstrates (or presentations) (practice) on technology products or services (only needs to be loosely related to tech).
Based on the BarCamp and Open Spaces concepts, the first DemoCamp was held in Toronto and inspires events of the same name in many Canadian cities and other locations around the world. Victoria organizer Mark Lise was inspired by attending DemoCamp Vancouver.
The following demos are currently proposed:
- Why DemoCampVictoria was created (Mark Lise)
- Fortuno (Jesse and Jason)
- Genetify (Andrew)
- BountyUp - Social Commerce (Joshua McKenty and Todd Khozein)
- DailySplice (Rian)
- Flock - the social web browser (Clayton Stark and other Flockers)
- Songbird (Steven Bengtson and Peter Van Hardenberg)
The format usually has the audience (participants) vote on what demos they want to see. What doesn’t get voted in at one event, often gets voted in at the next.
As BabyCamp could start any day within the next month, I hope to make it for the first hour tomorrow night.
Hat’s off to Mark and crew for putting this together. I’m sure it will be an awesome event.
Update: I did make it to the first half of the event, and took some photos. It was an awesome event! Dave Chard and team were incredible hosts! Dave is the founder of the real estate development company Chard Development and behind the Juliet condominiums being developed in downtown Victoria. Urbanist Yule Heibel made the introductions that resulted in this venue, and it seems this relationship will continue to grew and be a great benefit for entrepreneurs and technologists in Victoria– Dave welcomes other opportunities to host similar events!
I had a very interesting conversation with Yule about urbanization of downtown Victoria, got to catch up a little with Boris Mann, and have a little face time with the incredible — and recently relocated to Victoria — Darren Barefoot. I saw some people I haven’t seen in a while and met quite a few wonderful people. The demos were great!
Looking forward to the next one.
- Photo by Brij Charan [↩]
