Many of us involved in early-stage tech here in Toronto have watched the news of Startup Camp with a lot of interest. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had the “Wouldn’t it be great if there were something like that in Toronto …†conversation, or have read blog posts hoping for the same thing.
So a group of us have now decided to just do it. Our ad hoc organizing committee is made up of Austin Hill, uber-entrepreneur, Stuart MacDonald, Expedia.ca founder and one of my mesh partners, the irrepressible David Crow, the troublemaker responsible for a lot of the energy behind TorCamp and DemoCamp, and yours truly.
Just about everything you’d like to know about Startup Camp Toronto is TBD. Spring seems likely. But for now, we’re blurting out our plans to get the ball rolling, and to spark some creative thinking about what Startup Camp should be like. It’s your event, so get involved! A good start would be to mosey over to the wiki and do a brain dump of all your best ideas about sessions, sponsors, venue, volunteers, or anything else that comes to mind – it is a wiki, after all. Oh yeah, and sign up as an attendee while you’re there so we can get a sense of how much interest there is, will you? That will help with venue and date planning.
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rob,
it’s about time we got a start-up camp of our own!
mark
Hey,. wohoo! Let’s get rolling.
Does it have to wait until the Spring?
Perhaps winter or late winter would have been a better way to put it Jevon. It’s just that by the time Christmas passes it always seems that Spring is pretty much on us!
… and that way, you could pimp it at Mesh07! :)
Sounds like fun! I’m in.
About time! I’m very interested in assisting in the organization of StartupCamp.
Thanks Roy and Randy – watch this space and the wiki for more news, and don’t forget to put your particulars on the wiki as attendee / volunteer. Cheers and thanks
Rob,
This looks like a great start. Count me in!
Sean
Thanks all,
I’m in. Can’t wait to be part of this.
Martin
This will be great. Count us in.
Thanks Martin and Omar. Great response so far – this will be fun!
Rob, I am very excited. I am in for sure. let me know if there is anything we can do to help
Mark
Rob, sounds incredible. I say you keep along the lines of the spring dates, thats when netus.com is set to launch in beta. No self interest at all lol ;)
DC
Hi Rob: I’m keen to come to Startup Camp but have a question. Are you folks any closer to setting the dates for StartupCamp Canada? For those of use trying to make travel plans the proposed dates, June 11 and 12, have to become the for-real dates.
Hi James – alas, not yet. Working on it though, and hope to have more news soon. Wish I could be more specific. :)
So it looks like Startup Camp, she is *not* on, correct?
Just trying to find the time to do it, James – it will happen.
Will it happen on June 11 and 12?
Alas, no. We’re still working on new dates :)
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