Posted by Luke Francl
on Thursday, May 08
MinneBar – one of the largest BarCamps in the world – is being held this Saturday at the University of Minnesota.
Several folks from the Rail Spikes/Slantwise/Tumblon orbit will be presenting.
- Jon will be speaking about Consulting for fun and profit based on his experience with Slantwise as well as demoing Tumblon.
- Norm will be sitting on the Design Coding Panel as well as leading a session on CSS frameworks
- Dan Grigsby (Rail Spikes alum) will be sitting on the State of the State: Technology in Minnesota panel and giving a talk called Screw You LAMP. Plus Virtualization.
Me? I’ll be helping run the thing and maybe giving a demo.
There’s 360+ people signed up already. If you’re in the area, you should definitely come. It’s going to be awesome.
Posted by Jon
on Wednesday, November 28
MinneDemo is a quarterly event in the Twin Cities where local startups and technologists demo their products.
Zencoder is distributed video transcoding software, built by Slantwise, that is scalable, reliable, and flexible.
The next MinneDemo event will be held December 6th at O’Gara’s Garage in St. Paul, and I’ll be presenting Zencoder there. This will be the first public showing of Zencoder, and I’m excited to be demoing the system after four months of development.
Whether or not you’re interested in video processing, if you’re reading this blog and you live within a 100 mile radius (or even 270), you should come. MinneDemo and MinneBar are the most worthwhile tech events going on in Minnesota.
MinneDemo works like this.
- Show up at 6:30 for a free beer/wine/soda or two.
- Have another beer/wine/soda.
- Watch five or six software demos, including Zencoder. The demos each last 15 minutes or less, and PowerPoint is not allowed, so you actually see working software, not marketing-speak.
- Continue to meet people, get ideas, land projects, and find partners. We met our attorneys, one business partner, two clients, and several friends at MinneDemo and MinneBar.
The event starts at 6:30pm on Thursday, December 6th (drinks and food), and the demos will start at 7:30pm. The demos will finish around 9pm, but some people will stick around for hours after that.
Many thanks to Dan Grigsby and our own Luke Francl for organizing MinneDemo, and Ben Edwards for starting MinneBar!
