What a weekend. It was intense, fun and time flew by so fast.

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 Ian Graham and theCodeFactoy for generously putting up the space for this to happen.

We had teams in Design, Development, Marking, Business and Legal. Not to mention a couple folks who could really bridge the gab between all the different groups. Overall a real professional crew.

So what did we make? well we’ve called it reBookMe, you can find a splash sign up page at www.reBookMe.com. reBookMe is a solution that aims to turn cancellations into reservations, take that empty chair, room, service, tool what ever it is that just became available through a cancellation (or just plain available) and let interested clients who know about it. Your clients can then shift to an earlier appointment or possibly be enticed by a special off you’ve put forward to fill the opening.

We’re pretty excited about the idea and are continuing to work on it.

If you get the chance to attend one of these weekends I highly recommend it, I had a blast.

I’m not going to release the concept quite yet, expect tidbits of information over the weekend.

Out of the the 35 participants I’ve only ever worked with one participant before, Franc Epton and that was at at DVS Communications back in the early days of interactive media. I feel some reminiscing coming on. I’m excited to work with the rest of the crew, some of whom I’ve wanted to work with for a while; Jay West, Mark Blevis and Marquis Cote just to name a few.

I sense that my major contributions are going to come on the design side but I also figure my experience with a lot of projects will help me play a role in segmenting tasks amongst the participants. I’ll let you know how that goes.

Want to find out more about the Ottawa Web Weekend, check out http://www.ottawaw.com/