BarCamp Edmonton

Just a quick reminder that DemoCamp 9 is this THURSDAY (not Wednesday like they are usually on) November 19th, at the University of Alberta ETLC building room E1-017.  It starts at 6:30 and afterward we are going to head nearby to the RATT for drinks and further socializing.  You can find out more information at www.barcampedmonton.com/democampedmonton9 or on the facebook event page.

It’s shaping up to be a very interesting DemoCamp with a wide range of demos, including 3 from local games companies.  The demo list right now is:
CIE
BookThatBet
Willowglen
CrazedCoders
MotionVoter
Max Gaming

We are looking forward to seeing you there.  Don’t forget to help spread the word and bring a friend.

See you Thursday!

It’s time to demo again.  DemoCamp Edmonton 8 is going to be taking place on September 9th at the University of Alberta, ETLC Room E1-017.  DemoCamp starts at 6:30 and afterward we are going to head nearby to the RATT for drinks and to socialize further.  For more information about DemoCamp check out the What is DemoCamp.  To stay up to date on future DemoCamp events check out the BarCamp Edmonton site and our Facebook Group.

Please help us spread the word about DemoCamp by telling you friends and co-workers and bringing someone who hasn’t been out to DemoCamp before and help us keep the community growing.

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

You can find more information at www.barcamp.org/DemoCampEdmonton4

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

We’ll see you out on the 29th…

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 to DemoCamp Edmonton2.  We had over 80 people there and it was a great time.  For a recap of the event check out Mack’s recap on his blog.

DemoCamp Edmonton 2 has now been scheduled for Tuesday May 20th at 6:30. It will be held at the Billiard Club at 10505 Whyte Ave (google map forthcoming). Check out the DemoCamp wiki for more information, and we’ll post more information here as the date comes closer.
As always please invite your friends or anyone else that you know that might be interested. Please sign up on the wiki (preferred), the facebook page, or fire me off an email (cam.linke@gmail.com). This will help us plan for numbers.
See you there.  Let’s keep this community growing.

We just want to say a quick thank-you to everyone that showed up last night for Edmonton’s very first DemoCamp.  Almost 70 people attended, well beyond our initial estimates of 50 or less.  As well, many people came out afterwards for drinks at The Windsor. One of the main goals of DemoCamp is to build connections in the Edmonton community, and we’re sure many new connections were made last night.

We’d also like to thank all the speakers that came out.  You all did a great job, and we look forward to seeing you again!  Here they are again in the order they presented:

There’s already a great recap of the nights events, as well as content on Flickr and Twitter.

Over the next few weeks we’re going to be collecting feedback and going over this DemoCamp to see what we can do better next time.  If you want to keep up on what’s going on we encourage you to join our mailing list, follow our RSS feed, or join the BarCampEdmonton Facebook group.