{"id":587,"date":"2006-04-03T23:57:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T04:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=587"},"modified":"2006-04-04T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T05:05:07","slug":"camp-oh-more-than-just-camp-you-know-youre-soaking-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2006\/04\/03\/camp-oh-more-than-just-camp-you-know-youre-soaking-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp, oh more than just Camp.  You know you&#8217;re soaking in it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartdabek.com\/\">Bart Dabek<\/a> just launched his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.questionville.com\/\">QuestionVille <\/a>app, a rated community question-and-answer site.  It&#8217;s been dug on <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/\">Digg<\/a>, so he&#8217;s getting tons of traffic.  <\/p>\n<p>I first saw Bart&#8217;s site when he demoed it recently in Toronto.  I&#8217;ve attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.pbwiki.com\/TorCampDemoCamp4\">most recent<\/a> Toronto DemoCamp and demonstrated<a href=\"www.blogchat.com\"> BlogChat <\/a>at the <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.pbwiki.com\/TorCampDemoCamp3\">penultimate<\/a> DemoCamp gathering, where people with an idea and an implementation can demonstrate their product and their passion to the local tech crowd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidcrow.ca\/\">David Crow<\/a> is the catalyst behind <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.org\/TorCamp\">TorCamp<\/a> and its sibling DemoCamp, both of which are splendid examples of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unconference\">unconferences<\/a>.   I&#8217;ve managed to run into David a few times over the last week so I can attest that in the Toronto tech entrepreneur sphere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiotheater.com\/cman.html\">he&#8217;s everywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There has been some <a href=\"http:\/\/myownpirateradio.com\/2006\/03\/29\/torcampdemocamp-40-get-your-game-on\/#comment-135\">feedback <\/a> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/davidcrow.ca\/article\/1061\/entrepreneurship-sharing-and-democamp\">discussion <\/a>of late about where to draw the line between the technical and business aspects of these events.  As a nerdy guy I&#8217;m much more interested in the tech aspect, however I&#8217;m not independently wealthy enough that I can&#8217;t understand the usefulness of bringing business into the equation.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s early days yet, so by all means, join in.  Toronto&#8217;s tech and entrepreneurial community has the potential to make a big splash, and we can do it with your help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bart Dabek just launched his QuestionVille app, a rated community question-and-answer site. It&#8217;s been dug on Digg, so he&#8217;s getting tons of traffic. I first saw Bart&#8217;s site when he demoed it recently in Toronto. I&#8217;ve attended the most recent Toronto DemoCamp and demonstrated BlogChat at the penultimate DemoCamp gathering, where people with an idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}