Archive for the ‘Event’ Category

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January 11th, 2011

Dr. Sketchy’s 2010

Over the couse of 2010 I’ve attended a few Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School evenings at the Mercury Lounge. I always have a lot of fun both drawing and talking with the other artists. If you love drawing and haven’t checked this out I suggest you do, here is a link to the Ottawa group [...]

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October 5th, 2009

DemoCampOttawa 12

After a healthy break DemoCamp is back in Ottawa for installment 12. This is one of my favorite events and always inspires. Date: October 19th 2009 6pm to 9pm Location: Clocktower Brew Pub (downstairs), 575 Bank St (http://bank.clocktower.ca) To sign up for the event please register at http://democampottawa12.eventbrite.com For Event information and Demo sign up [...]

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November 21st, 2008

A list of tech events in Ottawa

Last updated: Sept 29, 2009 I moved back to Ottawa from Halifax in the summer of 2005 and I was instantly captivated by how vibrant Ottawa’s grass roots tech community is. While living in Halifax I was always on the lookout out for the new media design and tech scene but it just wasn’t there [...]

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May 28th, 2008

CodeFactory Open House

The CodeFactory is Ottawa’s coolest, newest and quite possibly the first (I think) co-working space. Right on.

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May 24th, 2008

DemoCampOttawa 9

The next installment of DemoCampOttawa is almost upon us. DemoCampOttawa 9 is on Monday, May 26th 2008 from 7pm to 9pm at The Velvet Room located at 62 1/2 York Street, in the market. If you haven’t already signed you can do so in the wiki page. If your not familiar with the DemoCamp format [...]

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May 19th, 2008

Getting Prepared for Mesh

I’m really looking forward to spending a few days in Toronto to take part in the Mesh Conference. In fact I’m going for the full experience MeshU, Mesh Conference and Third Tuesday. For all of this I really need to mentally prepare myself for the crowds, discussions and networking. I’m a pretty shy guy and [...]

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May 12th, 2008

Ottawa Web Weekend is done, what’s next.

It amazes me that a group of over thirty people can get together for the first time, triage through 20+ concepts, decide on one (that alone is amazing), rally behind it, refine it and get down to business. And a the end of two days plus an evening have accomplished so much and had so much fun in the process. Thank you Marc-Andre Plouffe for putting this together and also a big thank you to and theCodeFactoy for generously putting up the space for this to happen.

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May 10th, 2008

Ottawa Web Weekend Kickoff

The Ottawa Web Weekend is sold out, 35 participants, wow! . It was awesome to get together at the Code Factory and meet the other 34 participants and decide on the concept we will create over the course of the weekend. I expect that we’re going to have a lot of fun over the course [...]