Archive for the ‘DemoCamp’ Category

StartupCamp 2 in Toronto

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Toronto's second StartupCamp will be held at the Carlu on Tuesday, April 29.  I might even be able to make it to this one!

DemoCamp 17: Monday, Feb 25

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

The schedule is up for DemoCamp 17, which is being held at the Toronto Board of Trade on Monday, Feb 25.  Good lineup, fun crowd---look forward to seeing you there.

Congratulations to David Crow

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Now will probably never have a "best tech evangelist" category in their annual rankings for Toronto, but the blogging world does, and this year's winner is DemoCamp's own David Crow.  Congratulations---it's well deserved.

DemoCamp 17

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Monday February 25, at the Toronto Board of Trade --- doors open at 5:00 pm, demos will run 6:00-7:00, presentations 7:30-8:00, then we'll head downstairs to the Duke of Westminster. Signup is open at democamp.eventbrite.com, and you can propose a demo or presentation here. Look forward to seeing ...

How Many Do You Know?

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Via David Crow, a link to TechVibes' Toronto Start-Up Index for December. I know fewer of these companies than I'd expected to; hope to get to meet the rest some time soon. b5media yes ProductWiki not yet AdaptiveBlue yes FreshBooks yes ZipLocal not yet Defensio not yet Groovle not yet ConceptShare yes Sneakerplay yes AideRSS yes OfficeZilla yes Quotiki yes Awareness yes BumpTop yes JobLoft yes Domainer yes FileMobile yes CakeMail not yet Onaswarm yes YowTRIP not yet vLane not yet Cosimo not yet mDialog not yet xkoto not yet Zerofootprint yes myhood.ca yes Octopz not yet Clay Tablet not yet Semacode yes ViaVol not yet Cytoscape yes EasyPost.ca not yet SlashID yes Realosophy not yet Workspace not yet Pursudo yes Ogrant yes FeelingBullish not yet

DemoCamp 16: two w00ts

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Last night's DemoCamp at the Board of Trade went very well. 200+ people in attendance, despite the weather, and some very cool demos and presentations, including two from U of T that got lots of applause: Igor Foox demo'd UTest, a reverse testing oracle that he, Pardis Beikzadeh, and Mike Liu ...

Praise for UTest Demo

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Kushal Munir has nice things to say about last Thursday's UTest demo at IBM's Eclipse DemoCamp.  There are still spots open for DemoCamp 16 (Monday Dec 3 at the Board of Trade building in downtown Toronto) --- hope to see you there.

DemoCamp 16 Signup

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Sign up for DemoCamp 16 on December 3 at the Board of Trade.  We're asking for small donations this time; hope to see lots of you there.

Why It’s Worthwhile

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

I was pretty depressed by the lack of CS department demos at DC15, so David Crow's reminder of how strong a community has formed around 'Camp stuff in just two years was timely (and welcome).  No sign of CS demos for DC16, either, but almost 40 people from outside the ...

Eclipse DemoCamp

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

IBM is organizing an Eclipse-specific DemoCamp up in Markham on Thursday, November 22. You can sign up to attend by adding your name to the wiki [1], and of course they're looking for Eclipse-related demos. This is just one of a series of DemoCamp-like events being held around ...