DemoCamp Montreal: An Open Question To The Montreal DemoCamp Community.
On Friday I was a spectator at the DemoCampMontreal4 meetup where my brother presented url_pipe, a project I find fascinating in many respects. There were some really interesting presentations and rather than explain in this post what those were I’ll direct you to a post on Montreal Tech Watch that does so much synospis of the night than I have the energy to do.
I forsee a problem with future DemoCamps and I’d like to throw out a question to the Montreal community who enjoys the event. I’d like to see DemoCamp continue to be the great event that it is but I’m scared that we’ll start seeing companies present products and services at the event rather than good software demos.
On the main DemoCamp site there is a quote that I think explains a lot about the spirit that makes the unconference so interesting:
It’s not about you and it’s not about your company - it’s about the DEMO
I think presenting great software is what DemoCamp should continue to be about. My question to us all is wether or not we should be clearer about what we expect at future DemoCamps?
on August 19th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Hi gary,
There were already “sales pitches” in Democamp2 - a guy that presented his software as if he had a bunch of corporate types in front of him.
Now, I think the principle of using the wiki as the basis of organization (first come, first served) cant be changed. What can be done however is more active hosts. As soon as someone starts to use slides, powerpoints and begins a sales pitch, the host should stop the demoer. also the hosts should engage more the crowd.