Our next DemoCampGuelph is on for Sept 30th. Sign up to attend here. If you’d like to demo, apply for a demo spot by contacting me directly. Include a one or two liner pitching why our community needs to see your demo!

Check out demoCampGuelph.com for all our other links. Please spread the word!!

A quick wrapup post on last week’s DemoCampGuelph. Once again thanks to all who attended, demoed, helped organize, promoted, etc. These are community events and only as good as what we all give. Thanks to eBar for hosting us and our event sponsors Communitech, Sun, and our newest sponsor Guelph Chamber of Commerce.

The evening itself went smooth for the most part. Estimates are there were 60 to 80 people in attendance, including a great crowd that stuck around after the event to socialize. There are rumours that some people continued on at The Albion afterwards but I can’t speak to that.

Special thanks for Will Pate for stepping in last minute and saving our butts as our invited speaker. We had a solid list of demo submissions and unfortunately didn’t have room for all. If you didn’t get a spot for this event, please don’t let that stop you from submitting to the next event.

Our demo’s for the evening were:

• Adil and Ticket Trunk: Democratizing the online ticketing industry.
• Cory Fowler with jTweetr: jQuery tool that uses the search api to bring a feed of tweets to a website.
• Andrew Miklas with PagerDuty: aggregates alerts from your monitoring systems and forwards them according to your on-call schedule.
• Ben Vinegar with GuestList: Sell tickets to your event online and expand your audience. Manage your attendees and cashflow with a professional set of tools.
• Jason Hanley with BuyMyStuff:a nice easy way to manage an online garage sale of multiple items.
• somaICE: is a CMS that is SEO’d @ the core platform Level that allows end users the ability to manage their content while giving them comprehensive business management tools and reporting. Sort of like Salesforce.com + BaseCamp + Drupal on roids all in one Box
• Justin Lai with Markiter: an online service aimed at helping small businesses gather market research through instant focus groups.

Thanks to Simon for his major overhaul of the Crowie (pictures anyone??). The Crowie for demo of the night went to Cory and jTweetr, keeping in mind that the prick host forgot to get Justin and Markiter in the voting round.

Thanks again and keep your eye out for the next event, likely late September. Sign up for our google group to stay informed.

Your last reminder that tomorrow, May 13th, is DemoCampGuelph9. If you haven’t signed up to attend already, please do so here. Today is your last day to submit for a demo spot. If you’re interested, submit immediately to myself. Spread the word, tweet, phone, email, mail.

Please make note and remind everyone of the venue change. We are upstairs at the eBar this time around at 41 Quebec St.

DemoCampGuelph9 is coming up on May 13th. Head here and sign up if you’ll be attending. If you’d like to submit for a demo spot then contact me directly asap.

Our invited speaker this time around is Jay Goldman, who will be speaking about TransitCamp — the story and the end results. Jay is a technologist, designer, speaker, author, and generally swell guy. He wrote the Facebook Cookbook, hosts Mr. Mobile on Butterscotch.com, works at Rypple, the world’s most awesome startup, and is a steward of the Toronto DemoCamp Community.

Please note the venue change as we’re at the eBar this time around. As usual, if you’ve been before, please bring someone new along. If you haven’t joined us before then come say hi. Spread the word, talk us up!

This week’s DemoCampGuelph8 was my favourite we’ve held so far. The part I love about hosting this event, it feels like I’m just taking a bunch of friends out for pints, which is a dream for me.

While we are very lucky to be sponsored by Communitech and Sun, these events are not your typical conference affair. They aren’t museums or corporate deals you just show up and walk through while keeping to yourself. These events will only be as great as what the community decides to put into them. Myself and the people who organize these do nothing beyond simple promotion and organization. They live and die on what you all bring to them. What I’m trying to say is you’re all doing a great job because these events are getting better each and everytime so thanks to all who attended, helped organize, demo’d etc.

Now, for those of you who missed out. If you aren’t making it out to these events because demo’s don’t interest you then I’ll let you in on a poorly kept secret. The demo’s are not the point, they’re the gravy. This event is purely about connecting and strengthening our local tech community. That’s done through relationships and everything about how we plan these events is focused on facilitating that. If you aren’t part of that then what are you up to exactly?

What’s Coming?

We’ll pick a date and announce DemoCampGuelph9 in the coming months, likely with a May date. I grabbed us DemoCampGuelph.com to create a simple one stop shop for all info about dcg. If you’re interested in activity around this event, sign up to our google group as well.

I love hearing feedback about these events, so please comment here or contact me directly. Please forward all purely negative comments here or start your own event.

The date is set at March 4th for DemoCampGuelph8. How can you help?

1. Go here and sign up to attend, and show up.
2. Talk us up everywhere you can! More details here if that helps.
3. Think of people you’d like to see demo’ing and suggest it to them. Have them contact me asap with their pitch if they’re interested.