BarCampWaterloo take two: good times had by all
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on December 06, 2006 at 04:49 AM
The second BarCampWaterloo was held last night in the Accelerator Centre on the north campus of the University of Waterloo (officially the Research and Technology Park). It is a perfect location for a BarCamp – loads of space designed for networking geeks and lots of free parking close by which is rare in Waterloo near the campus. We had around 20 people in attendance with six presentations followed by some beer and wings at the pub.
Most of those in attendance were at the last one with a couple new folks showing up. About half were students, a few from small companies located in the Accelerator Centre, and some other folks from around the area. For me, the most interesting one was by Kurtis McBride from Miovision. He and a few other UW Alumni have a company that creates image processing software that would enable you to track the number of people in a store accurately using existing surveillance cameras. He had a demo of counting cars in real time on a stretch of highway from an existing web cam feed. It was pretty cool.
About 12 of the attendees went to the Duke afterwards for some beer and wings. It was a good time even though I have a presentation today at WatITis and probably should not have stayed out too late ;) Stay tuned for the next BarCampWaterloo in the end of January or early February. It has been decided by those in attendance to do a weekend BarCamp and an evening DemoCamp once a term…