MinneDemo Holiday Edition

It's time for another MinneDemo! MinneDemo is the Minneapolis/St.Paul version of DemoCamp, where we showcase the most kick-ass software in town and have a few beers together.

This time around, we've arranged to have the Acadia Cafe, located on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis' "Eat Street" district, close their doors to the public and make both their stage/theater and the cafe/pub space available exclusively for MinneDemo attendees on the evening of Monday, December 11th.

The Acadia can accommodate a larger audience, provides us with separate spaces for presentations and networking, offers a nice menu and a really diverse set of beers all in a non-corporate setting. The place has soul, and lets us address the valid gripe last time 'round about not being able to hear the presenters over the chatter.

Demo Schedule

We will have seven 15-minute demos. Sign up below if you're interested and, of course, there's no fee or any BS associated with presenting. Also, email dan at unpossible dot com and look at recursion dot org so we know how to reach you. This is really important so that we can confirm that you're still in when we get closer to the event.

Schedule:

1. Data_Pix (Jeff Beddow) -- Data_Pix is a self-descriptive data presentation method that allows visual interactive browsing of large complex datasets.
2. Fetchster (Eric Caron) -- Fetchster is a locally-owned, nation-wide job board that spiders company websites for job openings (eliminating the middle man, such as CareerBuilder)
3. imp (Dan Carroll) -- Through imp, users can legally discover, acquire and share songs, movies and more -- all of which is recommended to them by sources they trust.
4. Doomtree Reactive Video Utility (Paul Wenzel & Justin Heideman) -- In real time, we manipulate motion graphics, video footage, and imagery for on-stage performance. Using Quartz Composer and Max/MSP, it is not Web 2.0.
5. Mike O'Connor -- I was going to talk about the Corp.com 3rd-level domain registry. Now I want to talk about the design puzzle posed by Bar.com and other "geo" oriented domains like it.
6. Co-Pilot (Eric Grumdahl) -- Co-Pilot helps housing and human service agencies end homelessness in Minnesota, by streamlining information management, simplifying accountability and providing feedback to policy-makers, funders and programs.

Have a project in the pipeline that you'd you'd like to present at the next MinneDemo, sign up below:

1. Dan Grigsby's hush hush project
2. Jumpnode (Jumpnode)
3. Adaptive Avenue (Adaptive Avenue)
4. Your name here?

Getting there

Acadia Cafe is located just south of downtown Minneapolis, at the corner of Nicollet Avenue South and West Franklin Avenue. The address is 1931 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55403.

Metro Transit Bus Routes:

• From North or South on Nicollet: Take the 18 or 17
• From East or West on Franklin: Take the 2

Parking is available at the Lorring Nicollet community center - Plymouth Church lot just North of the Acadia on Nicollet. Street parking is also available.

Free drinks for the first 75 people

Acadia's known for their diverse range of specialty beers, so we've hit up some sponsors to spring for drink tickets for the first 75 people.

Our sponsors:

1. ipHouse - ipHouse specializes in Internet Plumbing, done by Internet Professionals
2. Mosquito Mole Multiworks - Consulting, Hosting and Product Development
3. Kinetic Data - Builds applications and tools for internal IT organizations to deliver business service management
4. Road Sign Math - driving + math = fun
5. New Counsel - New Counsel is a law firm dedicated to assisting technology based start-ups

Attendees

(Please click the "Edit Page" button at the bottom to add your name to this list/RSVP)

1. Dan Grigsby (Co-organizer)
2. Luke Francl (Co-organizer)
3. Eddie Malekebu Webs911.com
4. Central Standard Tech
5. Scott Vlaminck
6. BenEdwards refactr
7. Peter Fleck PF Hyper
8. Jeff Pester Text Capital
9. Dan Carroll imp
10. Robert Metcalf Flyspy
11. Eric Caron Fetchster
12. Norm Orstad Slantwise Design
13. Ron Lancaster license 2 code WidgetWeb
14. Jamie Thingelstad, Road Sign Math & Dow Jones
15. Harold Slawik New Counsel
16. John Sundberg Kinetic Data
17. Matt Thompson vita.mn Snarkmarket
18. Dan Weinand Slantwise Design
19. Paul Wenzel, Co-Op Media Carmichael Lynch
20. Bob Hastings
21. Derrick Shields Adscape Internet Marketing
22. Dylan Petersson WWW Design & Development
23. Robert Foster SotanLIFE
24. Morgan Catlin Valtira
25. Jeff Beddow
26. Chris Barber CB1, INC.
27. Justin Heideman, Walker Art Center & Co-Op Media
28. John Murphy, Dow Jones
29. Ira Mitchell freemind
30. James Swanson freemind
31. Nick Santrizos Dow Jones
32. Jason Wankerl
33. John Roberts New Counsel www.newcounsel.com
34. Les Lim CTEP
35. Garrick Van Buren Working Pathways MNteractive.com
36. Courtney Lind EatonGolden
37. Kate Pabst EatonGolden
38. Todd Emmel Slantwise Design
39. Jon Dahl Slantwise Design
40. Andy Kvamme Slantwise Design
41. Tim Elliott Winecast
42. Brian 'Bex' Huff
43. Eric Grumdahl, Hearth Connection
44. Chris Gwinn, Four51
45. David Saber, Saber Associates
46. Irfan Khan, Jumpnode Systems
47. Drew Geraets, Running Design
48. Jason Baker, VISI
49. Adam Gedde
50. Timothy Wee Thomson West
51. Jim PIchler, Digital River
52. Michael John
53. David Opsahl
54. Pam Ludford U of M
55. John Ladwig MN State Colleges and Universities
56. Bjorn Stansvik, MentorMate, Inc.
57. Jonathan Waldoch, MentorMate, Inc.
58. Chris Sandberg, Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP
59. Tom vonKuster, Amex
60. Eric Lampland, Lookout Point Communications
61. Graeme Thickins, Tech~Surf~Blog
62. Nate Schutta, ntschutta.com
63. Aaron Fulkerson (?) OpenGarden.org, MindTouch
64. Rick Kuula Solutia Consulting
65. Tom Kieffer
66. David Farmer U of M
67. Nate Yourchuck
68. Ralph Jenson
69. Justin Peck
70. Sheldon Mains (maybe, probably late)
71. Matt Zumwalt MediaShelf, LLC
72. Kharmen Roman Dow Jones
73. Cecily Sommers The Push Institute
74. Ron Fresquez The Open Source Technology Alliance
75. Ashley Fresquez The Open Source Technology Alliance
76. Ben Moore, Curbly.com
77. Mark Fredrickson, Advantage Labs
78. Benjamin Ortega, University of Minnesota Population Center
79. Cuong Tran, PragmaQuest
80. Brandy Carrier, New Horizons Computer Learning Center
81. James Ludlow, DiscgolfTV.com
82. Steve Stevenson, Dow Jones
83. Randy Vescelius
84. Stephen Heuer, Arux Software int42.org
85. Jonathan Lord, Dr. Wingnut
86. Paul Cantrell, assorted nonsense
87. Mike Calvo Citronella
88. Brian Westrich McWest Corp.
89. Levi Yourchuck Levi Yourchuck
90. Ben Wallace, Link Positive, Inc.
91. Neil Mix, Pandora
92. Brent Gustafson, Walker Art Center
93. Annette Gustafson, page10
94. Josh Byrne, Adayana
95. Dustin Bruzenak
96. Pusit Sompong, MPR
97. Dan Stone
98. Steve Peterson, Acorn Bay Software
99. Mary Jo Delise, ION Communications
100. Aaron Mentele, Feed Rinse Electric Pulp
101. Michael Lehmkuhl, Feed Rinse Electric Pulp
102. David Hedrick Skarjune MN MySQL User Group
103. Adria Richards, BlueTurtle Hosting
104. Deb Alexander, U of M
105. Scott Ballantyne
106. Lucas Fleetham
107. Steve Hanson, Cruiskeen Consulting LLC
108. Mark Sastry
109. Jacob Hookom, McKesson Medical-Surgical
110. Todd Mcgrath, supergloo
111. Andy Atkinson
112. Adam Sellke
113. Matt Bauer, Mosquito Mole Multiworks
114. Bill Boulger, Indie Tickets
115. Rudrava Roy, Invisible Computing
116. Adam McBroom
117. Shashi P
118. Tanya Yourchuck
119. Craig Peterson
120. Craig Chamberlin
121. Amit Dedhia
122. Lars Leafblad, HHH Institute of Public Affairs, U of MN
123. Matthew Genelin Fast Computer Service Co.
124. John Kuster http://www.oscmn.com
125. Cody Hanson, University of Minnesota Libraries
126. Matthew Dornquast, Code 42 Software
127. Carson Kipfer, Third North Creative
128. Greg Blasko, Third North Creative
129. Mindy Krasselt
130. Mark Maclennan
131. Dan McElroy
132. Tom Healy, Jump Technologies
133. John Tinsley, BenchmarkQA
134. Eric Peterson, Invisible Computing
135. Tom Brice
136. John Riske, Swarmcast
137. Stacey Taylor, Solution Design Group
138. Ryan Melena, OnClick Inc.
139. Andrew Comfort, Q-BA-MAZE
140. Abe Levine
141. Matt Deimel
142. Greg Dalen
143. Christopher Everett
144. Patrick Rhone patrickrhone.com
145. Bob Waldron myDigitechnician
146. Justin Kruger Fireseed
147. Tim Salo Salo IT Solutions, Inc.
148. Carla Fredrick, page10
149. Derek Peterson, BOLD Crossing/agency
150. Rick Graner
151. Danna Mokamba, page10
152. Tim Bramer, Arcstone
153. Chad Fennell, Health Science Libraries - U of M
154. Michael Bingham, Mezzanine
155. Ken Nelson
156. Jesse O'Neill-Oine refactr
157. Kent Tangen Dow Jones
158. Mahi Palanisami
159. Roxanne Johnson
160. Tom Whipple
161. Bob Kusnetz
162. Bill Brown Aspen Informatics
163. Courtney Cole
164. Tom Grabowski LogLogic
165. Tesla Aldrich
166. Jo Soo
167. Mark Hurlburt Sierra Bravo
168. Kyle Drake Sierra Bravo
169. Steve Brown
170. Johnny Hatch VISI
171. Gary Elfert VISI
172. Daniel Westacott University of minnesota
173. Warren Jacobson
174. Jason Lake
175. Lorry Lee Strother
176. Ben Tesch
177. Erik Haugo Mill Path
178. Justin Hendrickson Sierra Bravo
179. Eric Hands, eHands, Inc.
180. Brooke Nielsen TakoTech
181. Chris Tersteeg Dow Jones
182. Brian Kruse
183. Casey Helbling Clear Consulting, Nearbie
184. James Matheson Humphrey Institute, UofM
185. Harlan Iverson
186. David Quimby, Adaptive Avenue
187. Alex Blyakhman, WhereToLive.com
188. Asim Baig CATS Applicant Tracking System Cognizo Technologies

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