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University of Toronto

by davidcrow on March 4, 2010

March 4, 2010 Democamp U of T Presentation
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I missed tonight’s DemoCampUofT sponsored by the cool kids at Web Startup Society. They had a kickass keynote speaker, my friend and startup lawyer, Rob Hyndman.

Sidra Mahmood, “Typography and Design” for WebDevelopers
James Cash, Building a Social Writing Site in Rails
Alexander Synaptic, Online Music Portal
James An, Social [...]

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The Schedule for DCT#25

by davidcrow on January 21, 2010

What is your preferred order for DemoCamp?
Donation Matching
We have raised $2930 ($2330 + $600), that Gurbaksh has generously agreed to match. There are 2 options for making a donation.

Make a donation directly to MSF and publish your receipt tagging #democamphaiti (it’s also really helpful if you send me the link, but this is the easiest [...]

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Donations for Haiti

by davidcrow on January 14, 2010

To help support relief efforts in Haiti, 100% of the DemoCamp donations will be going to Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. Gurbaksh has elevated the challenge to DemoCamp attendees. He will personally match the donations from the DemoCamp crowd (at a minimum, we’ve been talking about him donating a multiple of the DemoCamp number).
Just to make sure [...]

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Silver Anniversary – DCT25

by davidcrow on January 6, 2010

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Apply to present at DemoCamp (make sure you also register to attend)

It’s the 25th DemoCamp special edition in Toronto. We’ve been very lucky to have Yossi Vardi, Gary Vaynerchuk and now Gurbaksh Chahal join us for DemoCamp. Don’t know who “G” is?  Check out the Request for Help for details.
For the Chahal [...]

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Request for Help: Gurbaksh Chahal

by davidcrow on December 22, 2009

I’m hoping to get Gurbaksh Chahal to speak at DemoCamp Toronto # 25 on January 26, 2010  January 27, 2010 (sorry needed to change the date).
Who is Gurbaksh Chahal?

Gurbaksh is a successful entrepreneur having sold Click Agents for $40M and in 2007 BlueLithium for $300M to Yahoo. He has started his third venture, gWallet, which [...]

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5 Blocks Out & Datamartist

by davidcrow on December 22, 2009

Geoffrey Wiseman adds to his documentation of DemoCamp Toronto # 24 with videos of James Standen, Datamartist and Oshoma Momoh, 5 Blocks Out.
James Standen – Datamartist

Datamartist is a piece of Windows software designed to enabled the extraction, transformation and and load (ETL) of data from SQL databases, Access databases, Excel files, and other sources. The [...]

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DataTO – Adam Thody

by davidcrow on December 15, 2009

Geoffrey Wiseman has published Adam Thody’s presentation on DataTO.org at DemoCamp Toronto # 24.

 
It’s great to see Adam and Mark Kuznicki sharing the great work they have been doing for toronto.ca/open to reach out, engage, educate and inspire Toronto software developers about the opportunities that exist in remixing the city data sets in [...]

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Did you miss Gary Vaynerchuk at DemoCamp?

by davidcrow on December 14, 2009

Satoshi Takano (@SatoshiTakano) has posted the complete video of Gary Vaynerchuk’s talk with Saul Colt at DemoCamp Toronto # 24. It was a great conversation about entrepreneurship, wine, and social media.

Gary Vaynerchuk in Toronto @DemoCamp 24 from Satoshi Takano on Vimeo.

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GridCentric at DCT24

by davidcrow on December 11, 2009

Geoffrey Wiseman has posted his recordings of Tim Smith from GridCentric at the DemoCamp Toronto # 24. As Tim says “it’s fork() for the cloud”.

And the Q&A with the audience.

One thing I hope Geoffrey is doing, is clearing the publishing of the videos with each of the participants. I’m think it’s great [...]

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Live Notes from DCT24

by davidcrow on December 4, 2009

I’m cross posting Tom Purves live notes from StartupNorth. Make sure you check out StartupNorth or WirelessNorth.

DemoCamp24 in Toronto is sold out, for those following at home, some live notes:
First up: Gary Vaynerchuk:
Greatest takeaway: big game is patience, way too many ppl give up right before it’s about to happen. If you don’t have the [...]

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Demoing on Dec 3, 2009

by davidcrow on November 24, 2009

Wow there was 17 submissions for the 6 demo slots at DemoCamp Toronto #24 happening on December 3, 2009 which is now sold out. Thanks to everyone that applied. If you didn’t get accepted, you’ll have another chance, DemoCamp Toronto #25 and #26 are happening on January 26, 2010 and March 30, 2010.

GridCentric HCP [...]

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