Mark's World » democamp vancouver http://www.digitalspace.ca GNU Not just another ranting blog Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:35:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 DemoCampVictoria Chapter. http://www.digitalspace.ca/2008/02/26/democampvictoria-chapter http://www.digitalspace.ca/2008/02/26/democampvictoria-chapter#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:24:55 +0000 Mark Lise http://www.digitalspace.ca/2008/02/26/democampvictoria-chapter I had this idea to bring people together in my town to spice things up a bit – and I found DemoCampVancouver! A few weeks back I decided to go check these guys out and I was pleasantly surprised! It was very cool and I had blogged about it a while back.

Once I [...]]]> I had this idea to bring people together in my town to spice things up a bit – and I found DemoCampVancouver! A few weeks back I decided to go check these guys out and I was pleasantly surprised! It was very cool and I had blogged about it a while back.

Once I saw how interesting their event was I decided to start a chapter in Victoria. I want to bring people together from all different types of industry to make new relationships, new business ideas, new innovation and new everything! It’s time to showcase what Victoria has with respect to tech.

I need to organize space, times, some presenters.. There is lots to be done – If you have an idea you want to share or just want to check out what’s happening in Victoria, come join the group! I’ve set it up on facebook and barcamp so add your name! I will have dates/spaces and all that to figure out in the next few weeks but I will be updating the wiki and group appropriately. Hope to see you there!

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]]> http://www.digitalspace.ca/2008/02/26/democampvictoria-chapter/feed 0 DemocampVancouver05 http://www.digitalspace.ca/2008/02/08/democampvancouver05 http://www.digitalspace.ca/2008/02/08/democampvancouver05#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:08:53 +0000 Mark Lise http://www.digitalspace.ca/2008/02/08/democampvancouver05 Well, my trip to Vancouver for Democamp05 was pretty good I must say. I arrived at Workspace Headquarters fashionably late and piled into the tiny little elevator with 5 other people to head up to the 4th floor. There was some question as to whether we’d make it since the elevator wasn’t really [...]]]> Well, my trip to Vancouver for Democamp05 was pretty good I must say. I arrived at Workspace Headquarters fashionably late and piled into the tiny little elevator with 5 other people to head up to the 4th floor. There was some question as to whether we’d make it since the elevator wasn’t really indicating to us that the selection made was accepted (bad UX BAD!). Workspace has a wicked coffee bar as soon as you enter – I think I’ll just sit down here thank you very much!

There was a fair amount of people there, unfortunately all seats were taken so I sat on a desk – which wasn’t too bad, at least I could open up the lappy and twit. The 30 second speeches started and then everyone started voting. Twemes, Localiti (Jason Murphy), Pulse, and Scannerfly were voted in for their talks. Every one of these were interesting:

Twemes: Use global tags in your twits for searching. This was written over a weekend – right on!

Localiti: Facebook Jason for details, but it’s to do with bridging the IM/Voice/Email/TXT/etc gaps into a single UI. He’s looking for a CTO and Biz partner.

Pulse: Cool facebook app that informs you about your latest bands.

Scannerfly: Turn your webcam into a barcode scanner!

Sorry, haven’t got the flickr embedding done yet – head here to check out my camera phone pix. Thank you Boris/Megan for organizing!

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