6:00pm
Demo: AskItOnline.com (Kaitlyn McLachlan, Clear Sky Media, http://www.askitonline.com)

6:15pm
Demo: GigPark (Pema Hegan, Noah Godfrey, http://www.gigpark.com)

6:30pm
Demo: Mono Project .NET Development on a Mac (Geoff Norton, http://www.mono-project.com/)

6:45pm
Demo: PlanetEye (Butch Langlois, http://www.planeteye.com)

7:00pm
Demo: SceneCaster (Alain Chesnais, http://www.scenecaster.com)

7:15pm
20 minute break

7:35pm
Ignite: The Future Is Simple (Geo Perdis, http://mediaworks.ca/)

7:50pm
Social Services Mashup (Clara Severino, UofT, Partnership) 

8:05pm
How to Rock SXSW (Rannie Turingan, http://PhotoJunkie.ca)

8:20pm
The State of Wireless in Canada Sucks (Tom Purves, http://wirelessnorth.ca/)

8:35pm
Leveraging Wide Open (Mike Beltzner, http://www.mozilla.com)

8:40pm
20 minute wrap up and social

9:00pm - 11:00pm
Duke of Westminster (http://westminster.thedukepubs.ca/) will have finger foods for us and is staying open an extra hour so you can get your drink on :)

Date: Monday, February 25th, 2008
Time: 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: Toronto Board of Trade, 1 First Canadian Place, Toronto, ON
Cost: Free (cash bar if you're thirsty)

Dinner will be served, the Demos will be excellent, the Ignites will ignite, and then we'll adjourn to The Duke of Westminster for more food and drinks.

As always, details are available at on the BarCamp's  DemoCampToronto17 page, 'tickets' are at Eventbrite, and those wishing to sign up for a demo or ignite session can do so via the Wufoo DemoCamp form.

We've seen a lot of turnover at recent DemoCamps and we're always happy to welcome new faces into the crowd. Since this is the first DemoCamp of 2008, we're going to change the old "bring a new person" rule around a bit and ask everyone to "bring a new person AND an old friend who hasn't been out in a while". Things have changed a lot since our humble beginnings around the BubbleShare board room table, so let's bring them back and show them what's new!

Lastly, we're always looking for individuals or companies who would like to put up $200 and help make the event possible. If you're interested, please contact me directly and I can give you a rundown of what's involved.

Hope to see everyone there!

SciBarCamp is a gathering of scientists, artists, and technologists for a weekend of talks and discussions. It will take place at Hart House at the University of Toronto on the weekend of March 15-16.

Bringing the academic and entrepreneurial communities together is one of Greg's big passions and this event is a clear move in that direction. Should be a lot of fun! Plus, it's sponsored by our friends at MindTouch who make the awesome DekiWiki, and if past evenings out with AaronF and the crew are any indication, this should be good! Hopefully they'll make it up for the weekend.

There are magazines about business, and then there's the Harvard Business Review. If you're at all involved in doing business in the western world, odds are you've read an article from HBR or even have a subscription. It would not be an exaggeration to say that a whole generation of thought and business leaders have been shaped by the content HBR has published. And so, along with my co-authors Eli Singer and Mark Kuznicki, it is my incredible honour to annouce the publication of our article, titled Sick Transit Gloria, in the Breakthrough Ideas for 2008 section of the February issue of the Harvard Business Review.

Our short piece shares the story of Toronto TransitCamp with a general business audience. We're in great company and I highly recommend you take a few mintues from your busy day to read through some of the articles on the Breakthrough Ideas for 2008 site. We'd also love if you would take an additional moment (we're so needy!) to vote for TransitCamp in the Best Unconference in BlogTO's Best of Independent Toronto Poll.

For those of you who aren't familiar with TransitCamp, our article tells the tale of a community and a public agency coming together in an innovative new way to solve problems together, using technology and social media and the BarCamp unconference toolkit to change their relationship. We're very proud to have helped the Toronto Transit Commission to usher in a new era of collaboration with its customers and community stakeholders! For more information, read the article in Harvard Business Review or check out the HBR page on the TransitCamp wiki for links that provide a comprehensive overview of the background, the design, the experience, the media coverage, the conceptual foundations and the influence of TransitCamp.

As authors, we want to be clear that while our names may appear in the byline of this article, these ideas and the event itself were created and inspired by a group of local community participants and peers and global thought leaders who both helped and inspired us. We would like to acknowledge those contributions and inspirations here:

Our friends who helped make TransitCamp happen: Robert Ouellette, ReadingToronto; Tim Shore, BlogTO; David Topping, Torontoist; Matt Blackett, Spacing; Adam Giambrone; David Crow; Bryce Johnson; Joey Devilla; Madhava Enros; Michael Glenn; Misha Glouberman; Julia Breckenreid; Ryan Feeley; Kieran Huggins; Andrew Moore; Kevin Bracken & Lori Kuffner, Newmindspace; Rannie Turingan, photojunkie; Patrick Dinnen

Friends and inspirations: Alec Saunders, Iotum; Amber MacArthur; Alex Lowy; Andrew Baron, Dembot; Anthony Williams; Arieh Singer; Audrey Carr, Between Us; Austin Hill, Billions with Zero Knowledge; Ben McConnel and Jackie Huba, Church of the Customer Blog; Bianca Goldman, A Wee Bit Skint; Bonnie, Ernie & Rachel, GreatCycling; Brian Oberkirch, Like it Matters; Cambrian House; Chris & Jessie, Istoica; Chris Anderson, The Long Tail; Chris Messina, FactoryCity; Colin Henderson, The Bankwatch; Colin Smillie; Cory Doctrow, Craphound; David Eaves; David Gray, Communication Nation; David Pritchard; David Weinberger, Everything Is Miscellaneous; Doc Searls; Don Tapscott; Elspeth Roundtree; Eric Goldman, Napoleon's Gambit; Ev Williams, Evhead; Greg Wilson, The Third Bit; Guy Kawasaki, How to Change the World; Howard Rheingold; Hugh MacLeod, gapingvoid; Iris Glaser, Tailor Communications Design; Jason Kottke; James Bow, Transit Toronto; James Cherkoff, Modern Marketing; Jeannette Hanna & Jeff Howe, crowdsourcing; Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine; Jeremiah Owyang; Jesse Hirsh; Jevon MacDonald, socialwrite.com; Mike Beltzner; Joe Clark; John Battelle, Searchblog; John Moore, Brand Autopsy; Johnnie Moore; Joseph Thornley, Pro PR; Karen Quinn Fung; Kate Trgovac, My Name is Kate; Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users; Kelly Seagram; Kenyatta Cheese, Braintag; Lawrence Lessig; Lee Goldman; Lee Odden; Leila Boujane, Idee, Inc.; Lloyd Alter, treehugger; Maggie Fox, Social Media Group; Mark Dowds, Mark Evans, A Canadian Take on the Web; Mark Raheja; Mark Surman, commonspace; Martin Cleaver; Matt Mason; Matt Mullenweg, Photo Matt; Matthew Dewall, Maybe Sorta Kinda; Matthew Ingram; Michael Anton Dila, Torch is Wicked; Michael Lenczner; Michael O'Connor Clarke; Michael Geist; Michael Seaton, The Client Side Blog; Michelle Perras, Shot From the Hip; Mitch Joel, Six Pixels of Separation; Nicholas Carr, Rough Type; Nikki Goldman; Om Malik, GigaOm; Peter Francey; Phil Hood;Richard Florida; Riccardo Cambiassi; Rob Hyndman; Robert Scoble, Scobleizer; Ryan Coleman Found in Translation; Saul Colt, The Smartest Man in the World; Scott Beale, Laughing Squid; Sean Howard, Craphammer; Sean P. Aune; Sean Wise; Seth Godin; Shel Israel, Global Neighbourhoods; Steve Munro; Steve Rubel, Micropersuasions; Stowe Boyd, /message; Stuart MacDonald; Sulemaan Ahmed; Tara Hunt, HorsePigCow; Michael Arrington and Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch; Thomas Purves; Tim O'Reilly; Todd Defren, PR Squared; Tom Davenport, Make IT Matter; Tom Williams, the $5 philanthropist; Tom Peters; Will Pate; Yochai Benkler

The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.

The fruits of their labour is already visible in things like the compliance reports for various email clients (Apple Mail [Excellent], Gmail [Poor], Outlook 2007 [Poor], and Windows Live Hotmail [Average] to name a few), and in their development of an email Acid Test to compliment The Web Standards Project web version. Standards make the world better for everyone, so if you work with email, read it, or send it (which should cover just about everyone who reads this blog), you should stop by their site and lend a hand.

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My talk went well (The Anatomy of a Facebook Application notes, courtesy of Jordan Christensen). I got a chance to chat with our favourite Citytv reporter, Amber MacArthur, as well as our new friend Eli Glasner, National Arts Reporter for the CBC Radio News. He generously provided us with an MP3 of the interview, which is included below for your listening pleasure:

© CBC Radio News

Update from Allen Gelberg, Director of the Collaboration Centre at MaRS and the man who generously donated last night's space for FacebookCampToronto:

FYI overall attendees were 453. That is 400 in the Auditorium and 53 in CR-3 where we were simulcasting into.

6:00	Social/Mingling
6:30	Introduction by Colin, Roy & Andrew
6:40	Best Practices around Product Design and Viral Marketing (Meagan Marks, Facebook.com)
7:30	Anatomy of a Facebook Application (Jay Goldman, Radiant Core)
7:50	FBML Overview (Sunil Boodram, Trapeze Media)
8:10	FQL Overview (Craig Saila)
8:30	Updating the Facebook Profile (Colin Smillie, Refresh Partners)
8:50	Demo: .Net Sample Application (Ricardo Covo)
9:00	Demo: Carpool by Zimride (Rajat Suri)
9:10	Demo: My Aquarium by Greg Thomson
9:20	Wrap-up & drinks

If you're reading this after the fact, welcome to Radiant Core! Don't forget to check out our Careers section for some great positions, including Facebook app development :)

DemoCampToronto14
Monday, September 17, 2007 6:00 pm ET - 9:00 pm ET
Toronto Board of Trade

We're trying a new venue out this time, with the generous support of the BoT (who are subsidizing their regular rental fee for the room). We're also trying out a new format, featuring 6 demos (5 minutes for demo/5 minutes for questions), followed by 6 Ignite! style presentations. If you'd like to demo or do a presentation, contact the esteemed David Crow, keeper of the DemoCamp flame. See you there!

Before the official festivities kick off on Monday morning with an address from Mayor Miller, join us for BarCamp TTW, running on Saturday, May 26th, in the U of T - Bissel Building at 140 St. George Street. Sign up on the wiki, throw on your best Participatory Culture hat, and come be part of Toronto's fourth BarCamp!

How to Change the World

Sunday, April 15th, Moscone Center, Room 2002
David and I will be doing a 5-minute, 20 slide, Ignite extravaganza on the use of *Camps for positive change. Look for a profile of TransitCamp as a case study on the power of Open outside of the tech community. We're scheduled to talk in the first block, which kicks off at 7pm. Be there or be []!

The *Camp phenomena has been successfully applied to a variety of technology events. This is the story about moving beyond technology, into public policy. And the impact open, creative communities can have on changing the experience of being a citizen, the face of a city and it's transit system.

Update: our talk went really well, although something got a bit messed up with the slides and images placed in the deck got replaced with images from that machine. We got a lot of laughs from the crowd and many congratulations after, and placed 4th out of 8 speakers, with 9% of the vote. Thanks to everyone who voted for us!

Web2Open

Tuesday April 17th and Wednesday April 28th, Moscone Center
It's an absolute pleasure to join our good friends Chris and Tara to attend Web2Open!

The Web 2.Open was conceived with FooCamp/BarCamp in mind. This open event blends some pre-scheduled content with an open grid where the attendees fill in the sessions they either want to discuss or present themselves. It is the perfect space to provide the community at large with a place to connect with other attendees, learn more about elements of Web 2.0, and share one’s knowledge and experiences.

We're not sure yet if we'll lead a session, but we definitely plan to be there and to help out wherever we're needed.

How to Make 27 Million People Hate You: Lessons from Firefox 2

Wednesday, April 18th, 4:30pm, Moscone Center Room 2018
We'll be up on stage again, this time talking about our experiences designing the official theme for Firefox 2 and about the changing role of designers.

Radiant Core enjoyed the terrifyingly good fortune of working closely with the Mozilla team to design the official theme for Firefox 2. Designing for a group of users larger than the population of Canada is hard! Learn about the challenges of cross-culture/language/platform application development, and why passionate users are both a blessing and a curse. Plus, we'll share the big secret about great design!

Find us on Twitter

If you're coming to the Expo, find us for a drink or dinner! You can follow our adventures on Twitter, where we'll be sure to post the where's and why for's. See you there!

Thanks again for your help in soliciting and compiling the submissions on the blogs concerning the TTC website redesign.

I presented the results to the TTC e-systems committee last week. To the credit of TTC staff, many of the suggestions had already been anticipated in the original RFP. However, some were not, and thanks in part to the consultation, it became clear during the discussion that the project should be reconsidered. The bloggers' suggestions were very helpful in this determination.

The committee recommended withdrawing, re-writing and re-issuing the RFP to reflect what I think is a more ambitious and exciting project. This decision might add a little extra time--maybe a few months--but we think it will result in a better website, so it's worth doing.

I'll keep you posted on developments. In the meantime, of course, I am still very happy to receive comments and suggestions.

Thanks again for all your help,

Adam Giambrone
Toronto City Councillor
Ward 18 Davenport
Chair, Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)