Montreal Tech Watch

DemoCampCUSEC, a democamp organized last thursday during the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference, gathered a room full of students as well as few others coming from the technology community in Montreal. Attendees came from all over Canada to see applications coded by students in their spare time or as part of a research project.

In many cases, the demos were impressive, with functional applications, working code, and a few feats of software engineering. Of course, they didn’t have lickable user interfaces, they were not market-ready products; but that was not the point. The event celebrated more than anything else how students could get a desktop or an Android app running from a simple idea. A student said for instance he was just looking to represent visually notes taken from the dreaded human sciences classes. Another want to track his time, and came up with a full Windows 7 app, with features as advanced as  the well-known RescueTime.

@skrud was the MC for the evening. He didn’t have an accordion but rapped Ice ice baby

In the spirit of democamp, slides were not authorized, just working code and applications. I don’t think all attendees got the DemoCamp though, as there were little interactions.

All in all, we had a refreshing event with very impressive work from the students. Congrats!