MinneDemo 2 Recap "Whew!" is all I can say.
It went off great! Dan and I learned from the
first event and found a venue that could accommodate networking and
demos. I was worried that no one would want to watch the demos, but that
was completely unfounded! The demo room was packed, and so was the bar.
We have to give a big thanks to our sponsors, the presenters, and Ted at
the Acadia Cafe for making this event possible.
We had a really diverse crowd of people from all kinds of backgrounds.
Justin Kruger and
Bob Waldron -- who are hard-core
into BarCamp -- even drove up from Milwaukee (and crashed at my place),
and a couple of guys from Souix Falls's Electric
Pulp who were in town showed up.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to see all the demos, but what I did see was
promising (though next time, we're going to have to enforce the no
PowerPoint rule with a cricket bat). The Doomtree Reactive Video utility
was pretty much the awesomest thing I've seen in a long time.
The coolest thing about MinneDemo and MinneBar is the community that they
foster. After three events, faces and names are starting to be familiar.
People I met at MinneBar are friends, and people who came to the first
MinneDemo are part of the tech scene. I think it will just grow from
there. I'll be disappointed if we don't get some startups happening out of
this...
More:
MinneDemo thoughts thread on Google Groups.
Graeme Thickins:
'MinneDemo 2' Was One Hot Ticket!
On Monday night, nearly 200 geeks, coders, and entrepreneurs
descended on the Acadia Cafe for
MinneDemo 2.
Posted at 22:14
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