{"id":966,"date":"2007-02-06T22:43:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T03:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/02\/06\/democamp-12-a-packed-house\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T03:43:48","slug":"democamp-12-a-packed-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/02\/06\/democamp-12-a-packed-house\/","title":{"rendered":"DemoCamp 12 &#8212; a packed house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across <a href=\"http:\/\/saunderslog.com\/2007\/02\/06\/democamp-12-slam-poetry-for-geeks\/\">a post from<\/a> Alec Saunders about Monday night&#8217;s DemoCamp (number 12), and it reminded me that I meant to write about it too. It was at No Regrets in Liberty Village, just down the street from Tucows &#8212; where I went to DemoCamp #3 (I think it was) about a year ago on another frigid February night. The place was packed to the rafters, and despite a balky sound system and some cranky Wi-Fi it was a great show.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" id=\"image967\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/no%20regrets.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"no regrets.jpg\" \/>Alec calls it slam poetry for geeks, and he has a point. He juggled his five BlackBerrys or whatever it was to demo Iotum&#8217;s TalkNow, and did a fine job (as befits one of last year&#8217;s DEMO gods), and Albert Lai told everyone a bit about how Bubbleshare.com got to where it was and why it decided to be acquired by Toronto&#8217;s Kaboose network (and then dropped his laptop on the floor). <a href=\"http:\/\/willpate.org\">Will Pate<\/a> did a demo of Flock, and remained cool as a cucumber even when David Crow&#8217;s Mac froze and had to be rebooted, and even when someone asked why Flock didn&#8217;t just make Firefox extensions instead of creating a whole new browser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vocamus.net\/dave\/\">Dave Humphrey<\/a> talked about how his students have been helping develop the Mozilla open-source browser code, and we had some updates too &#8212; from Scott Brooks and his partner at Conceptshare.com, who risked their lives to drive down from Sudbury, and from my pal Mike McDerment&#8217;s Freshbooks.com (which is hiring), as well as from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/\">Brent Ashley<\/a>, who said that he more or less gave up on his Ajax blog-chat app because he realized that &#8220;no one really gives a shit about being able to chat on a blog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sachachua.com\/notebook\/wiki\/today.php\">Sacha<\/a> wandered around taking pictures of everybody so that they could be collected for a DemoCamp index (and because Sacha is terrible with names and faces), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiantcore.com\/blog\/author\/jgoldman\">Jay<\/a> told everyone to introduce themselves to someone new, <a href=\"http:\/\/accordionguy.blogware.com\/\">Joey<\/a> made some bad jokes about David&#8217;s heart attack last year and handed out dried mango slices all the way from the Phillipines, and a great time was had by all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across a post from Alec Saunders about Monday night&#8217;s DemoCamp (number 12), and it reminded me that I meant to write about it too. It was at No Regrets in Liberty Village, just down the street from Tucows &#8212; where I went to DemoCamp #3 (I think it was) about a year ago on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/02\/06\/democamp-12-a-packed-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DemoCamp 12 &#8212; a packed house&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}