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DemoCampVictoria #3

Mark Lise — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:39:54 +0000

DemoCampVictoria

Hey everyone, that’s right. We got another democampvictoria coming up May 26th, 2009! We’ve got some really interesting demos in the pipe so I’m really looking forward to this one. It’s at the Canadian Pacific Lawn Bowling club.

Barcamp page here: http://bit.ly/67pHX

Facebook event page here: http://bit.ly/12v7YZ

See you all there!

Community Platforms & Community Harmonization

Mark Lise — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:23:20 +0000

This morning I read a post from David Crow on “Community Platforms“. It got me thinking about our local community, that being Victoria and Vancouver. I have always been a supporter of community platforms and open source, but I’d like to see that go further into the real world. Vancouver has quite a buzz w.r.t. technology and so does Victoria, however here in Victoria you have to go searching for it to find it.

There are lots of user groups here in Vic, but there are little silos here and there and there’s no cohesion or merging of the groups happening. This is where I think DemoCampVictoria can help change. Lets see what happens when we try to bring some of those people together to create new relationships, learn about what others are doing and maybe help contribute to the direction of technology development in Victoria.

Now you’re probably wondering at this point why I mentioned Vancouver as a “local” town. It’s only a 30km trip North of Victoria (that can come with a wide selection of hot and cold entrees), and there are so many human-links between the two cities. Why not try to feed these connections? If you think of it as a platform, it only makes sense if you’re living in Victoria to add the “Vancouver plugin” your ecosystem.

DemoCamp

Mark Lise — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:29:11 +0000

So it’s been pretty crazy trying to find a spot downtown – most places have been asking for a lot of $ to rent, flat out “not interested”, or they can’t accommodate enough people (5-10ppl). A lot of businesses seem to concern themselves with things getting stolen/damaged etc. I can see where they’re coming from – yet it’s still frustrating; Victorian businesses should eager to provide venues such as this. It goes towards being more community involved, it’s cheap advertising, it’s being representative of what Victoria is trying to sell itself as – a friendly proactive medium sized town… not to mention, it’s democamp you’re supporting! It makes me want to setup a biz to solely support venues like this!

On the presentation front – lots of interest, a lot of hesitation… there’s nothing to hesitate about people.. it’s new, exciting, and a forum to get some feedback! Remember, even if you’re just in idea phase and can carry on a 3-4 minute conversation about it.. you’re in!

DemoCampVictoria Chapter.

Mark Lise — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:24:55 +0000

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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