When you launch, launch with a bang: DemoCampVictoria01 Rocked
Last night I live-blogged Victoria’s first DemoCamp and it was a huge success.  The place was packed.  We were in the presentation centre for the new Juliet condos that are going up on Blanchard Street.  The presentation centre is a lovely, lovely venue for event and thanks to Dave Chard, Wendy Pryde, and Jessica Pryde for being amazing hosts.
Mark Lise told me that he expected more than the 48 people there were chairs for and yep, that was true.  It was a packed house.  When this DemoCamp was being planned, Mark had …read more

We’ll be starting shortly here at the Juliet show-demo centre.  Geeks aplenty consuming wine and cheese…
This is, without a doubt, the swankiest location for a DemoCamp…awesome kickoff for Victoria’s first DemoCamp.
It was a great time. My Flickr photoset from Victoria’s first DemoCamp is uploading

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Although Josh thought I had forgotten about DemoCampVictoria in my last post about Canadian tech events I hadn’t but since it’s next week, now is a good time for a little update.
Checking out the wiki I see the following folks are on the docket to present:
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) Source: BarCamp wiki / DemoCampVictoria01

I hadn’t checked out Songbird in a long time, but maybe it’s time to finally give …read more

There are so many great tech events coming up (maybe I need to start doing the Upcoming thing again) that I’m just doing a quick post here with links to a few that I’ve seen recently:

StartupNorth » Blog Archive » StartupCamp Montreal 2 – May 15th, 2008
Drupal Camp Vancouver Set for May | Techvibes Blog
Toronto tech scene in the papers » ThomasPurves.com
DemoCampEdmonton (tonight!)

Of course if you have an event that you’d like me to know about (and therefore tell others about) feel free to drop me a line at tris [at] b5media.com (yep my old tris@ address works again, though …read more

Aidan Henry told me about Victoria’s first DemoCamp before I went to SXSW but told me to keep it under my hat until they had details set.  Since Gels has posted about it, I think it’s fair game now:
Welp, count me in! The event is free to attend, and it sounds like the round up so far is interesting (demo’s from the Flock guys in Vic, and an interesting new social commerce app called BountyUp). There’s one idea that’s missing that I personally think is really cool, called TeamPages; a social app that facilitates athletes, their coaches, and parents in …read more