Ottawa Web Weekend

Check out this post from the Seattle SW’s blog.

I think there is one key element here: How great is the idea from all the points of view (Dev, Biz, User Experience, etc.)?

I was disappointed by our choice in Toronto because I could hardly see any business model behind it while I think the concept is pretty good from community perspective.

Martin Frönmark, a good friend of mine, will be organizing a weekend in Karlmar (Sweden) on April 4-6 as well. We’ll make it a friendly competition between our 2 weekends. Martin attended Startup Weekend Hamburg in Germany back in September.

He’s organizing the weekend with Johan Roth of Drivhuset. They can be found online at www.startupweekend.se (in Swedish).

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Even tho it’s more than 2 months away, it’s time to start organizing the Weekend. There is lots to do to make it happen: find a venue, advertise/recruit participants, find sponsors and decide what will happen during those 3 days.

If you are interested in helping out to organize it, send me an e-mail (ottawaw [at] gmail [dot] com) and we will meet soon.

If you are interested in participating, enter your name and e-mail address in the box on the right and I’ll keep you posted.

I had the chance to attend Startup Weekend 1 Toronto (SW1 Toronto) last September and I liked the idea so much that I’m looking to organize something similar in Ottawa/Gatineau from April 4 to 6, 2008.

If you’d like to participate or help organize the weekend, drop me a line.

I’ve created Ottawa Weekends as an informal umbrella organization to organize different weekends in the future because I think the concept goes beyond technology or startups. I know that the folks in Toronto are already planning a Mobile one.

Marc