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    One Last MinneDemo For The Year In Minneapolis

    The vibrant technology community here in Minneapolis has at least one more event left in the waning days of 2012. And to wrap the year, 7 minute demos with no presentations at MinneDemo, a bar camp-esque event focused around demoing new tech. I love the cookouts these guys have, but it’ll probably be too cold and snowing to have dozens of people milling around a keg, so let’s go indoors and watch people demo tech that hopefully works. A little of what they have in store for us (to quote their site): As always, MinneDemo features home-grown tech without the BS. The rules are simple: 7 minutes, real working technology,…

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    BarCampLA 7 on May 2nd

    For more information check out the Google Group. And if you haven’t been to one of these ad hoc types of conferences yet, it’s a very interesting way to spend some time – informative, fun and interactive.

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    BarCamp in LA

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal There’s an open source conference of sorts coming up in LA on November 3rd. It’s called BarCamp. Check it out at: http://barcampla.org/ We start by gathering together in one space and going around the room to introduce ourselves with three tags to describe what we’re passionate about (or want to talk about). There will also be some announcements. After this, people who intend to lead a session will add their session info to an empty schedule grid (may be moved around early on). If you see a session you’re interested in, go to it. After a couple of sessions, you will have a significant…