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Recap: DemoCampEdmonton4
Tonight was without a doubt our best DemoCamp ever here in Edmonton. With six fairly solid demos, nearly 150 people in attendance, and no technical glitches in sight, it’ll be hard to top DemoCampEdmonton4 but we’re certainly going to try! It’s just amazing to see the community grow like this – thanks to everyone who came out.
Tonight we had six demos:
- Sean from Orange Door Idealab showed us Surveyor, a mobile tool for conducting surveys using the iPhone or iPod touch.
- Reg showed us Edistorm, a social brainstorming platform.
- Brady showed us ElectionBuddy, a service that helps you run polls and elections via email.
- Aaron came all the way from Regina to show us The History Books, a sort of social networking site.
- Sam showed us PureInbox, an online email management system.
- Grant Skinner showed us a bunch of Flash projects, including Adobe Kuler.
It wasn’t planned at all, but all of the products that were demoed tonight seemed really polished. The interfaces were all slick and professional looking!
I think my “demo of the night” goes to ODIL’s Surveyor. I really like the interface, and the application itself seems pretty solid for something so early-stage. ElectionBuddy and Edistorm also had great demos, and have lots of potential. I think PureInbox could have been a great demo, but unfortunately we didn’t get to see much of the app itself. The History Books was entertaining, but as I said on Twitter, it seemed like something that came out of a few late night domain name purchases. Grant did a wicked presentation, showing us eight different projects that his Flash design firm has been involved with. He was definitely the most captivating presenter.
Tonight was also the first public announcement for Edmonton Code Camp! It’s going to take place on Saturday, November 29th at the MacEwan campus downtown. You can find more information here, and the domain will be http://www.edmontoncodecamp.com (working through some DNS issues currently). We’ll share more details soon.
The venue worked well again this time, and once again I had Free Wifi going (though it could have been a bit more reliable). I live-twittered the demos, which you can find at Twitter Search along with updates from others in attendance.
I think lots of people like DemoCamp just for the networking opportunity afterward, and again we had a full house at The Windsor Pub. Was great to see a bunch of new faces in the crowd too! Thanks to Smibs for sponsoring tonight’s event.
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Categories: Uncategorized | 15 Comments »
October 30th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Great venue. Great presenters. Great to meet with so many geeks (in person).
-Jerry
October 30th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Thanks for coming Jerry!
October 30th, 2008 at 1:31 am
I was very impressed with most of the demos, much better than I was expecting to be honest! And I’m glad it all went off without a (technical) hitch! Thanks for your work on this Mack, and thanks to Cam etc. while I’m at it.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Thanks for demoing Brady, it was great!
October 30th, 2008 at 11:19 am
I agree with you on all counts, great turn-out, demos and I think Surveyor gets the nod as well. Alain Saffel wrote a post on the fusedlogic blog about the fact he thought that these guys were, in his opinion, some of the visionaries we have within the Edmonton tech community. What do you think?
October 30th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
There were certainly a lot of community leaders there last night – DemoCamp is always a great place to meet everyone.
October 30th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Was great to be there in sprit thanks to the hash on Twitter. Thanks Mack for doing that.
I wish I could have been there in person, but it’s too bad that other things came up. *sighs*
Hopefully, when there is the next one, count me in!
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