{"id":232,"date":"2006-02-22T23:36:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T04:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2006\/02\/22\/democamp-in-toronto-was-a-blast\/"},"modified":"2006-02-22T23:36:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T04:36:03","slug":"democamp-in-toronto-was-a-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/02\/22\/democamp-in-toronto-was-a-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"DemoCamp in Toronto was a blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before too much time has gone by, I wanted to write something about <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.pbwiki.com\/TorCampDemoCamp3\">DemoCamp Toronto<\/a>, which was held on Monday in the offices of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucows.com\">Tucows<\/a>, a domain registrar and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogware.com\">blog software<\/a> provider run by my friend Elliot Noss. Organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/davidcrow.ca\">David Crow<\/a>, it was a fun event attended by about 100 people as far as I could tell. There were six presentations (including one from Blogware), each of which lasted about 20 minutes with a demo and questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/\">Brent Ashley<\/a> presented a chat application for blogs that he developed a while ago called (what else) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogchat.com\">BlogChat<\/a>, a group from the University of Toronto presented a wiki-style software development tool called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.third-bit.com\/drproject\/drproject-dev\">Dr. Project<\/a>, OpenBlue presented an <a href=\"http:\/\/69.72.168.204\/\">online shopping platform<\/a> for jewellers, and Geoff Whittington demonstrated a local job\/social networking site called <a href=\"http:\/\/thelocalguru.com\/\">Local Guru<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But for me the standout of the night was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuvvo.com\/\">Nuvvo<\/a>, an online learning platform developed by John Philip Green, his wife Malgosia and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuvvo.com\/about\">small team<\/a>. Nuvvo provides everything you need to start offering an online course in something &#8211; such as <a href=\"http:\/\/newagehippie.learnhub.net\/do\/request-enrollment?course=79a0018d-d5fa-45ac-85b0-9d4613bbc82e\">&#8220;Hindustanic music<\/a> for the Western listener.&#8221; You can create a course in minutes, send and receive messages, upload files and Nuvvo provides an online payment system as well. There is a free tier, and then for-pay tiers will be coming soon with extra features.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I had a great time watching the presentations and listening to the questions along with my friends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robhyndman.com\">Rob Hyndman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelmcderment.com\">Mike McDerment<\/a>, and enjoyed the discussions over beers afterwards as well. Nice job, David.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before too much time has gone by, I wanted to write something about DemoCamp Toronto, which was held on Monday in the offices of Tucows, a domain registrar and blog software provider run by my friend Elliot Noss. 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