This Monday I went to the first DemoCamp in Ottawa at the Clocktower Pub. About a month ago, I snuck my way into the organizing group via Axionic and I try to represent the "developer" perspective.

DemoCamp is probably best defined on the wiki. The short-short version? Four fairly informal demos and networking. Anybody is welcome to sign up on the wiki to do a demo as long as they think it can stand up to the audience. In that way, DemoCamp's demo quality is "self-policed" for lack of a better word.

This Monday's DemoCamp turned out very well for a first go -- and we've already done an organizing "post mortem" to make the next one better.

What camp events are coming up? DemoCamp Ottawa 2 is on November 20th and the big event BarCamp Ottawa 2 will be on December 2nd. We're also organizing CaseCamp Ottawa 1 to discuss marketing cases, taking place on November 6th. Then we'll have another round of Camp events in 2007...

We have a page on the wiki for all of the Ottawa "Camp" events and I snagged a URL to make it easy to remember: http://www.ottawacamps.ca