BarCamp & DemoCamp Calgary

Last night we had a great showing over at CriticalMass for our eleventh edition of DCC. We had an ample supply of Halloween candy and beer (thanks Deloitte and CriticalMass!).

We had three presentations last night..

John Bristowe: IE8

Ashley Dunfield: Lifesocket

(no photo!)
And in between I (David) presented a thought piece on User Experience

You can checkout some more photos from the evening on flickr, and if you had the chance to take some snaps make sure to tag them (democampcalgary, democampcalgary11) so everyone can find’em.

Lastly, as there’s more and more of an initiative to get people talking on twitter (#yyc reprezeeeent) why not share our IDs in the comments. To get things started if you want to follow some of the organizers of DemoCamp Calgary, there’s Sarah (@superblue), John (@jbristowe), and myself (@d4v) (will Patrick get on twitter, only time will tell). :)

Till next time!

Due to a wee bit of disorganization, we’ve had to change venues at the last minute for the upcoming DemoCamp this Thursday.

Luckily our friends over at CriticalMass have offered to host us at the last minute. Thus DemoCamp 11’s home will be there:

402 11 Avenue SE (MAP)

Lastly, the Calgary UX group will continue to meet up as well, however at a The Vicious Circle which is about 10 minute walk from CriticalMass.

So in summary:

Calgary UX Meetup
5:30pm
Where:
The Vicious Circle
1011-1st St. SW
(MAP)

DemoCamp Calgary 11
6:30pm
Where:
CriticalMass
402 11 Avenue SE
(MAP)

Sorry about all the last minute confusion, but we hope to see you there!
To make up for it, we’ll make sure there’s some beer lying around at Critical Mass for you to consume.

El’Barcamp’Democamp-crew

Whoa, the month is quickly sneaking by on us…

We’ve got DemoCamp scheduled for October 23rd. That’s a week and a day away…

We still have room for Demos and any extra time will be filled up by talk of User Experience.

The UX Group will be holding a get together before DemoCamp, so what better time to spread the UX love?

As always, DemoCamp will start at 630pm. We were hoping to find a new venue for this one, but it is looking like it will still be Melrose Cafe and Bar - 7th St and 17th Ave SW.

See you soon,
The BarCamp Crew

DemoCampCalgary10 was a success!

Graham Neumann, Kent Hawkins, Marcus Riedner and Matt Dorey all presented some pretty cool stuff.

It was also National Digital Media Day, so we kicked the evening off with a mixer hosted by Digital Alberta. Good times were had by all and it was fun seeing so many new, but familiar faces in the crowd.

We’ll be looking for a new space for DemoCampCalgary11 in October. if anyone has suggestions, please let us know!

Here’s the who-did-what-when from the original post:

DemoCampBanff1 also happened this week (Monday) out at the Cybera Summit. The Banff Centre is a beautiful location, the weather was amazing and yet people still stayed to participate! We had great demos by Dave Bodnarchuk, Reg Cheramy, Sean Healy and his partner Tys, Darren Stroeder, Peter urban and Marcus Riedner (that guy is everywhere!).

We hope to see you out next month,

The BarCampCrew