We need you to get the word out to everyone in the software/technology space in Toronto as we would love to see everyone before the year end. The number of tickets for the party is limited so getting your ticket is a must – ’cause begging ain’t gonna to get you in the door.

When: Tuesday Monday December 16 15, 2008 starting at 19:00

Where: The ModClub

Who: Geeks! and everyone else.

You are all welcome to join us. All proceeds from the party will go to supporting the Toronto Daily Food Bank. More details to come your way in the very near future but don’t let that stop you from getting your ticket(s) now.

Schedule
15:00 Doors open
16:00 to 17:00 Demos
17:30 to 18:30 Ignite Presentations
19:00 DC15 moves to the pub (Details to be provided later)

Location and Directions
Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON

Demos

Pete Forde, Unspace Interactive, Jester
Jester is a JavaScript implementation of REST, modeled after Ruby on Rails’ ActiveResource. You can use it to read, create, and save your application’s data in your browser-side code. Considering recent advances with cross-domain JSON requests, Jester is positioned to be the glue to developing a new class of client-side database driven websites.

Radu Negulescu, Aceora Software
Java ME productization issues using a currency exchange calculator that downloads exchange rates. Appreciation of the 20-some issues that need to be solved to bring even the simplest mobile phone software to the market: installation using jad, configuration without config files, user authorization requirements, conversion of keys to digits, Java ME vs .NET tradeoff, etc. See Radu’s demo and hear what he has learned in the process.

Liang Song, OMESH Networks
The demo shows a prototype of opportunistic wireless mesh networks, which shows 1) the drop-and-play of mesh stations that can vastly save network planning/deployment costs; 2) better performance to support voice and video services.

Shachin Ghelanil, Ogrant, Social Media for Financial Aid
Shachin will be showing Ogrant’s new interactive online grant service. Ogrant allows students to apply for school grants and scholarships using videos and images instead of essays, transcripts and reference letters. Essentially, a student interactive application can be reivewed and voted on by peers and ranked based on creativity, talent and intellectual ability. Shachin will share what they learned while developing a platform to transform an outdated industry (financial aid) and how their plans evolved as their development progressed.

Will Pate, Conceptshare
A sneak preview of ConceptShare version 2. The entire web management interface has been re-engineered from the ground up introducing a simple, clean UI.
This will be Conceptshare’s second appearance at DemoCamp and it will be great to see how far they have come since last year.

Ignite Presentations:
Rick Segal, JLA Ventures – Raising Money from the Suits and other talking Checkbooks. This promises to be entertaining! A VC crash course.
Greg Judelman, Bruce Mau Design – Meet Bruce Mau Design
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense – Emotions as Test Oracles
Andy Walker, Little Geeks – Give a computer. Reboot a child’s life.
John MacRitchie, Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) – Shortcut to finding OCE funding

Thanks everyone for submitting an ignite presentation or demo! This is awesome and I still can’t get over the fact that 300 people registered for DC15!

Paul’s glamour shot is gracing the pages of StartupNorth. The man loves his hardware! No really. He does. I will have to write up a little blog post about the Idée cluster. But in the meantime, drop by and read Jevon’s MacDonald piece. Vive Idée! and thank you Jevon – yes, we are up to some great things… that we will share soon soon.

DemoCamp 15 will be hosted by the University of Toronto on October 29. It will run from 4-7 instead of 6-9.

When:    Monday, September 17, 2007 5:30-9:00pm (presentation will start at 6:15pm)
Where:    Toronto Board of Trade, 1 First Canadian Place, Toronto

If you are registered and not able to attend the event, please drop a line to David Crow (David (at) davidcrow.ca) so that they can open the spot to someone on the waiting list.

Demo Schedule

• Zoomii presented by Chris Thiessen. This is an Amazon affiliate bookstore that’s like a real bookstore seen through google maps. It’s still in private beta. You could sign up to try it this evening.
• Cytoscape by Gary Bader, Cytoscape is open source Java software for visualizing and analyzing networks, including biological networks.
• AideRSS presented by Kevin Thomason. AideRSS filtering service, tools and widgets for blogs.
• ePresence by Peter Wolf. This is the software toolkit for real  time web conferencing developed at the University of Toronto.
• shiftMode by Brydon Gillis. An enabling framework for .NET.

Ignite Presentations
An ignite presentation is a 5 minute presentation with 20 slides x 15 seconds per slide where the presenter does not have control over the slide show.

• Ron Dembo from Zerofootprint
• Greg Wilson, with Beautiful Code
• Mike Fletcher, One Laptop Per Child
• Andy Walker, Little Geeks
• Roy Pereira, Refresh Partners, about FaceBookCampToronto
• and perhaps someone from StartupWeekend Toronto

Sponsored by:

• Toronto Board of Trade
• Ontario Centres of Excellence
• Microsoft Canada
• Brent Ashley
• CIPS
• RedFlagDeals.com
• Idee, Inc.
• OpenNETCF

Last minute planning for Photocamp in Toronto. It is exciting to see the number of participants and explore their photography. We are pumped for the first Toronto Photocamp! If you are interested in joining us this is your last chance so go ahead and register.

An itWorldCanada article by Kathleen Lau.

The above is not Sutha Kamal!

You must be kidding right? Sutha: I would kill to see the look on your face when you read this post. Take a picture please! Read it in front of a mirror and take a picture. I am going home folded in hafl in laughter. Baby spice!

Sweet!

Photo (c) Rannie Turingan

David has survived his first 10 days at Microsoft and his mac is still working!