Comments on: DemoCampVictoria01 – Success!

By: Successful first DemoCamp in Victoria « Bootup Labs

Successful first DemoCamp in Victoria « Bootup Labs — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:23:21 +0000

[...] for organizing a succesful first DemoCampVictoria. Lots of excited post coverage of the evening: Mark, Yule, Tris, TechVibes – I think this was a great spring board for future meetups. My favourite [...]

By: Success at DemoCampVictoria01–My thoughts from last night

Success at DemoCampVictoria01–My thoughts from last night — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:32:54 +0000

[...] far Mark and Yule have posted their thoughts about DemoCampVictoria01. I think since I managed to live [...]

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:27:09 +0000

What excited me as well was the range and depth of what people were doing. It was just truly exciting (speaking as the Canadian tech cheerleader). I didn’t get to shoot video, but you can bet I’ll be coming to find people soon!

@Gels — what you’re doing at UVic is great and not just for academia. Lots of businesses will want an in-house solution for this. Think giant law firms who work on big cases.

@Dylan … I had no idea you guys were in Victoria! This is an awesome success story!

By: Dylan Leblanc

Dylan Leblanc — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:29:11 +0000

It was exciting to be a part of DemoCamp Victoria! When we have the next one I can do another presentation on some new ideas I have for SkyscraperPage. A big thanks to everyone who helped put this on!

By: Yule Heibel

Yule Heibel — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:49:30 +0000

Yup, that was great. Even though I didn’t go to the pub with you guys afterward (there was one younger kid home alone, and the older one in tow needed to get home), I was buzzed from all the energy …to the point of waking up after 3 hours of sleep (at 3am) and not getting back into dreamland properly! Oh hey-ho, eh?, but as they say, “you can sleep when you’re dead”!

Kudos to Dave Chard for agreeing to host — and talking Wendy and Jessica into it, too! “Swank” is the right word (and Johnson Street can use it, too!). I guess we really do do things a bit differently here, eh?

By: Mark Lise

Mark Lise — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:40:28 +0000

@Tris – same here, thanks for documenting visually and live blogging the event.

@Gels – being inspired to come up and speak off the cuff is the greatest compliment to DemoCamp. Cheers to that! BTW, edited my post.. thanks for clarifying!

By: gels

gels — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:30:15 +0000

Hi Mark, thanks so much for holding such a spectacular event! Speaking on the spot was definitely a good exercise for the upcoming demos I’m probably going to be dealing with And thanks to everyone who provided some really great feedback on our project! I noticed it was only mentioned as Academic Research, (understandable, I think I listed enough acronyms to induce a coma) so to recap we’re building what’s called a Professional Reading Environment, which will facilitate Academic Research online – we have a blog running on our discovery process if anyone is interested (http://etcl.uvic.ca/whats-new/) and thanks again for the shameless plug op.

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:56:28 +0000

Mark it was great to finally meet you in person. DemoCampVictoria01 was a huge success IMHO. Even my non-geek girlfriend had fun and would come to another (not all, but another).

Good choice of picture too. I like that one a lot.