#1 is in the can
June 7th, 2007[ General ]
Well it’s done. As someone says somewhere, DemoCampGuelph1 is in the can! I’m clearly biased but I’d say it was a success. I met some new folks and had some pints so personally I achieved my only goals. In the end we managed to fit in six demos after a late start:
- Mark Roseman: CourseForum
- Chris Iwanowski, “speaker’s corner” kiosk application we just developed for Guelph Museums.
- Simon Clark
- Holden Karau
- Kevin Thomason, aideRSS, Filtering/managing your RSS feeds – basically, taming the RSS beast
- Colin Smith, Adobe.
Highlights
- Great venue. You can’t go wrong with 1/2 price burgers.
- Great gear. Once Colin showed up and got his pimped out gear out. The downside is we’re hooked on the good stuff now.
- As Holden would say, awesome set of demos.
- Somehow managing to have David Crow not only bring up Apollo but ask Colin from Adobe about it.
Need to work on
- The host, or MC, was a dud.
- Better structure and timing of the demos to ensure everyone gets similar showing.
- Maybe nametags next time? I had bought some but forget to put them out.
- More heckling and casual banter. It was great to have David Crow there to stir the pot and show us how it’s meant to go. We need to keep working on this and get the interactivity up but for first timers I think we did alright. I think part of this is just getting to know each other so we’re as comfortable saying “piss-poor effort” as David.
Thanks once again to everyone who showed up and helped make this work. Now get signed up to our google group and help us start planning #2!