The 13th DemoCamp — the regular show-and-tell gathering for Toronto and area’s developers, businesspeople and creatives — takes place tomorrow at No Regrets Restaurant and Lounge (42 Mowat, not far from the corner of King and Dufferin). The presentations start at 6:30 p.m. and run until about 8:30 p.m., after which the social part of the evening begins.
Here’s the lineup for this DemoCamp:
David Crow has a message for presenters, and I concur:
These presentations should not be sales demos.
Demonstrators should read Value to the Audience.
I am also going to ask that every presenter create a blog post or page on the wiki that is linked from their sign up that answers the following questions:
- Have you attended a previous DemoCamp?
- Who are you? Previous experience, what makes you qualified for us to listen to, etc.
- What does your product do?
- What hard problem, interesting insight, or cool feature will you be demonstrating?
- What are you hoping to get out of presenting?
- What does the community gain by hearing you present?
Basically, we need to improve the quality. I’m thinking of following the Ignite Seattle model of having all presenters submit a PowerPoint presentation. The point is not necessarily to use PowerPoint at DemoCamp, but to make the slides (and we’d limit the number, say 8 slides) available before the talk to the community.
For goodness sake, you have the attention of people in this community for 5 minutes. Make it count. And if I have to sit through a demonstration of a tag cloud or web login form, so help me…
See you there!
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how come this isnt posted on the torcamp mailing list?
I was under the impression that it was.