BarCamp & DemoCamp Calgary

Whoa, the year is gone already…

We all met up at Rare Method last night (thanks to Tom and Jillian for letting us use the space and getting everything organized) for DemoCamp12. It was a packed house and we got through three great Demos.

Mike Tighe and his boyz kicked it off with trainit.ca - funny the crowd had just been talking about the problems with Calgary Transit the day before on twitter. What a great example of seeing a need and building something better than what is currently available. We’re looking forward to getting updates on the project.

Next up was Leif Baradoy with Christmas Future. Great idea, good way to give. While Leif didn’t follow the ten minute format, he certainly kept the crowd engaged. Leif says a year-round website is on the way, so keep an eye out for that! Also: we hear through the grapevine he is an excellent Ultimate player.

Last was a Demo of GWABs.  Walking through the new website, the desktop fighting and some of the training contracts. If you’d like an invite to the Beta - please drop us an email!

 The BarCamp Crew met up after to talk about the plan for 2009. Stay tuned!

*More photos from the evening are available on flickr (tag your picks ‘democampcalgary, democampcalgary12′).

DemoCamp12 has a location! The kind folks at Rare Method are hosting us in their offices:

Suite 500, 1812 4th Street S.W. (map)

As usual, DemoCamp starts at 6:30pm.

The doors lock at 6pm, but we’ll have someone there to let you in.

After, we’ll hit the local pub!

We’re all set for presentations this month.

Here’s who’s lined up:

Christmas Future
Kudos
TrainIt
Gwabs

This is the last DemoCamp of 2008, so come out and catch up with your friends. We’ll see you on November 25th!

The BarCamp Crew

DemoCampers,

We’re giving you some warning this time - this month’s DemoCamp is the last Tuesday of the month, November 25th!

This’ll be the last thing of the year, so come out and hang with the crew before the Christmas season starts. we’re deciding on venue this week, so if you have an opinion, please let us know. If you don’t, then there’s no complaining allowed!

Stay tuned for more of a complete update next week. As always, let us know if you are interested in presenting.

The BarCampCrew

PS Word on the street is that Patrick will be dressing up in his Santa outfit!