NOTE: In order to attend you must sign up. There are a limited number of spots available. Due to the venue we only have room for 110 people.
What is BarCamp?
Barcamp is an ad-hoc gathering of people in and interested in the Edmonton tech community. BarCamp is a series of loosely scheduled 20 minute presentations/discussions about whatever the community is interested in.
How it works?
Everyone shows up in the morning and people write their name on a block of time with a topic, idea, whatever, that want to present, discuss, learn, etc. Everyone should have a topic in mind they’d like to lead a discussion on. Each session is only 20 minutes so you don’t have to prepare a big speech or PPT. The sessions should be interactive allowing for the audience to be a part of the discussion. You don’t have to present in order to attend. It’s more that you come expecting to participate and interact with people and presentations at the event. Everyone has great thoughts and ideas and we’re hoping that people will share those with each other.
Every 1/2 hr a new session starts and goes for 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of hallway talk and deciding on your next session.
How much does BarCamp cost?
Nothing. Free. Nadda. BarCamp is a sponsored event. Lunch and drinks will be provided as well.
Who should come?
You! Everyone! No matter what you interest in technology we can almost guarantee there will be something that you will find interesting, or someone that you will find interesting to talk to.
What are people going to be talking about?
We are planning on having three different presentation rooms, as well as a couple of discussion rooms/areas, a “business” room, a “tech” room, and a “misc” room. Ultimately the topics will be whatever the community want them to be.
What should I bring?
Whatever you want. We are arranging wifi so that you will be able to bring your laptops if you like. Also bring whatever other gadgets you want to talk about, show off, etc. Have a new iPhone, Arduino, Lego Mindstorms, whatever: bring it, play with it, show it off. Or bring nothing at all. Whatever you like.
Looking forward to seeing you all there. Our last DemoCamp had 140+ people out and we are looking to grow the community even more. Please help us spread the word by inviting friends, colleagues, or anyone else you think might be interested.
It’s time to Demo… 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 are interested in demoing 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 spread the word and bring a friend.
It’s getting to be around that time again, DemoCamp Edmonton 5 is going to be taking place on January 7th at 6:30 at the University of Alberta ETLC Room E1-003. You can find a campus map for ETLC here. After DemoCamp we are once again heading nearby to the Windsor Pub, join everyone there to socialize further. It’s shaping up to be another great gathering of the tech community and will be a great way to kick off 2009.
As with the last DemoCamp we are asking everyone to help spread the word about the event and keep help keep the community growing. Please pass on the information to anyone that might be interested and bring someone new with you (or two, or three…). If you would like to sign up to attend, present, or would like more information about DemoCamp, check out: BarCamp Edmonton blog, BarCampEdmonton Group, Facebook event page, the event wiki.
We’re looking forward to seeing you all at DemoCamp Edmonton 5. If you have any questions feel free to fire me off an email. Thanks to everyone who has come out and gotten involved this past year. We’ve seen our first 4 DemoCamps, and our first BarCamp as well as the tech community in Edmonton as a whole continue to grow. Let’s keep this community going and make 2009 even better than 2008.
Have a merry Christmas and a great New Years. Get ready for an awesome 2009.
The 4th installment of DemoCamp Edmonton continued on last night at the U of A. Thanks again to everyone who came out and made it a great night. Extra thanks as well to Smibs for sponsoring the evening. This was by far our biggest DemoCamp to date with ~ 150 coming out. We had 6 great demos again: Odil, Edistorm, ElectionBuddy, TheHistoryBooks, PureInbox, and Grant Skinner.
As usual Mack has a great recap of the evening (cross posted on Techvibes) that you can check out. If you made a blog post about DemoCamp please add your link to the comments below.
Enter your email on the right to be alerted as to when the next DemoCamp is going to be, or keep following here. See you at DemoCampEdmonton5…
Just a reminder that DemoCamp Edmonton 4 is going to be tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29th) evening, I hope that you will be able to make it out. DemoCamp is going to take place at 6:30 at the University of Alberta ETLC room E 01 - 017. You can find a campus map for ETLC here . After DemoCamp we are once again heading nearby to the Windsor Pub, join everyone there to socialize further.
Also, prior to to DemoCamp, Digital Alberta is going to be holding a session in which Kelley Marples from Rogers is going to come down talk about the iPhone. If you are interested in checking out that session before DemoCamp it is going to take place at 5:15 in the common’s area the computer science centre at the U of A. You can find a map to the Computer Science Centre here. You can find more information about the Digital Alberta event here (note that the event location listed for it it wrong).
I hope to see you all at DemoCamp. Let me know if you have any questions. Don’t forget to bring a friend
Thanks to everyone who came out to the last DemoCamp Edmonton. It was awesome to get the community together again and check out some of the awesome things that people are up to. As an extra note it was great to see a number of U of A students out at the last event and we are hoping to see more students from both the U of A and some of the colleges in town (NAIT, MacEwan), out at the next one.
On that note…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, demoing or helping, you can find out more information and sign up on the wiki at www.barcamp.org/DemoCampEdmonton4
DemoCamp Edmonton 3 is ready to go. After around 100 people came out exchanged ideas at our recent BarCamp we are looking forward to having the community together again at our third DemoCamp.
DemoCamp Edmonton 3 is slated to take place on September 17 at 6:30PM in the Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex (ETLC), room E1 017, at the University of Alberta. You can find a map of where the building is located on campus here. Parking is located nearby in the Windsor Parking Lot on 116 St and 92 Ave.
The second DemoCamp featured demos from companies such as Zigtag, Aviary, Boreal, and others. Come out and find out what other projects and companies people are working on, and meet some of the other people in the Edmonton tech community. You can find more information at www.barcamp.org/DemoCampEdmonton3
Thanks to everyone who came out and participate in the inaugural BarCamp Edmonton. There were around 100 people who came out and it was great to see the interaction, discussions and connections that took place. It was also awsome seeing both a mix of people from our first two DemoCamps there, as well as some new faces. Overall we were really happy that the Edmonton tech community continues to grow.
Also a big thanks to our two sponsors, TEC Edmonton and Nexopia. With their sponsorship we were able to keep the event free and provide lunch and drinks for those in attendance.
