Comments on: To business model or not to business model

By: pdinnen

pdinnen — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:43:06 +0000

Randy
Yes, I wasn’t very clear in my post, but that’s the impression I got from your demo. I’m a big fan of just for the hell of it hacking and someone else’s business model sidestepping, and was arguing that whatever changes happen with DemoCamp we should be careful to encourage demos like yours.

By: Randy Glenn

Randy Glenn — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:26:24 +0000

Just to be clear, what I meant was that I had no business model - that this is something I do for fun. The company selling the cameras certainly has a business model (which I conveniently sidestep), and I’m sure others could commercialize this work, but I have no commercial interest myself.

By: debhart

debhart — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:10:41 +0000

I think it is important to maintain an open place for anyone to say “hey, check this out”. The DemoCamp criterion is stringent: it must be working code (no powerpoint, wireframes, demoware). Beyond that, it’s open to serendipity. If DemoCamp decides to go another direction, I suspect that this informal “place” will just change address… we’re hooked now.
deb

By: David Crow

David Crow — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:10:39 +0000

Patrick, I would too. I’d love to see Lego MindstormsNXT. I’d love to see the telescope hackers that look for and track military satelittes. It is the sharing of ideas that is important, those might be technology, business or other. I personally like the mix of topics.

By: My Own Pirate Radio » Tech Entrepreneurship in Canada

My Own Pirate Radio » Tech Entrepreneurship in Canada — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:46:06 +0000

[…] Having read many of the follow-up comments, I see two definite themes emerging. (1) A desire to add an entrepreneurial education / business feedback element to DemoCamp, or to create a related forum that offers same. (2) A desire to keep doing the good stuff that DemoCamp already does. Patrick Dinnen says, “…there is room for both hacking for hackingâ€™s sake and a more focused, business directed approach to development. In fact Iâ€™d argue that neither can thrive without the other.” I’m down with that - let’s try for both. […]

By: Remarkk! » iSummit Wrap-up

Remarkk! » iSummit Wrap-up — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:03:17 +0000

[…] I would like to point all iSummit attendees to pay attention to the emergent community and agile innovation approaches coming out of the web development community in Toronto and elsewhere. DemoCamp is one spinoff of the BarCamp unconference phenomenon, which began in Toronto with TorCamp. It is a nascent community of software innovators, programmers, geeks, entrepreneurs and other interested parties that is completely self-organized way that follows agile principles. DemoCamps have been happening more or less monthly and attendance has been growing at an exponential rate. The future of DemoCamp is being discussed right now: here, here, here and here. […]