# Thursday, October 15, 2009
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The Alternative Network Group seems to be getting more exciting all the time. Seb is doing a great job organising beers and workshops. I would like to suggest a third type of event: AltNetDemos.

I seem to have lots of half-baked, prototype ideas in a month. Some of these make it into open source projects, screencasts, blog posts and tweets. However, it would be great to demo some things live to people.I’m imagining 5-10 minutes with a laptop and projector in front of 30+ people. Let’s say we get 5 people per session to demo and follow up with drinks/food. This provides time for discussions about whatever people find interesting (like the start of an AltNetBeers evening). These events can be a great way to generate buzz for new open source projects, bounce ideas around and generally geek out with shiny technology!

So what do reckon?

Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:40:39 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [3]  |  Related posts:

Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:19:45 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Great idea! Try to take screencasts if possible too, so viewers unable to attend can still see them. Sounds like you're talking about group brainstorming, so I think if you're open to ideas from the others, you'll probably get a lot of good feedback, and insight.
Kevin Radcliffe
Friday, October 16, 2009 11:01:03 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
I like the sound of it. Its the half-baked prototype ideas that make writing software fun
Saturday, October 17, 2009 9:47:36 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Screen recording is a great idea!

The name "AltNetShowcase" was suggested by Garry Shutler on twitter http://twitter.com/gshutler/status/4911139841

I should be attending the next AltNetBeers. Hopefully I can get enough people interested there.
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