Same place as the last couple installments: Intermedia Arts on Lyndale.

More info at the MinneDemo site as it develops.

Update: here’s the original Minnov8 post – video by Gabe Chefitz of 612Authentic.

MinneDemo is back at Intermedia Arts.

As of this writing, all the demo slots are open. But that doesn’t matter, you’ll be there – whoever is demo-ing. So RSVP already.

We’re pleased to announce that Jon Gordon, host of Future Tense, American Public Media’s technology broadcast heard on over 100 stations nationwide, will be joining us.

We’ve tallied up the resources we’ll have to play with, remix, and generally use as building blocks. These include 37 RSS feeds, 33 podcasts, a pair of Flickr streams, 10 discussion groups, 4 Twitter feeds, 11 blogs, a pile of videos, transcription samples and collections of commentaries and other content.

What would you make with MPR’s stuff?

Wow, already 16 people on the presenting list (only 6 slots) and 73 people on the RSVP list.

Bring 2 non-perishable food items for the Second Harvest food bank and you’ve got 3 free drink tickets. Excellent way to end the year.

I know I’m anxious to see what everyone’s been working on over the summer.

As of this writing, the RSVP list is 62, are you on there yet?

“Net-net: anybody who’s anybody in the local developer community was at this schmoozefest.” – Graeme Thickins

Graeme’s write-up is great, just read his.

Me…I barely made it into the presentation room. The place was packed – and I sneaked in just to catch up with Tim Elliot and see part of Mike O’Connor‘s presentation. Rest of the time I spent chatting with people like Graeme, Paul Cantrell, Tom Brice (who gave me a tip on an Applescript problem I was having, thanks), and our local Rails developers (who gave me a tip on dealing w/ sessions and cookies, thanks).

I did meet the guys from Electric Pulp. They drove over from Sioux Fall, SD and we talked about our respective feed-management projects (theirs: FeedRinse, mine: Feedseeder).

Speaking of out-of-state draw, up from Milwaukee came a representative from SocialHelix, they’re aiming to do for calendaring what YouTube did for video. There’s a lot of work to be done in the calendaring space – best of luck to these guys.

Back to MN-based, was also cool to meet Andrew Comfort. He’s raising money for Q-BA-Maze, a real, non-Internet, construction, maze toy.

Overall, the best tech/startup/demo event thus far.

As of this writing, Fetchster‘s Eric Caron is presenting, as is Scott Vlaminck, and imp’s Dan Carroll (for a quick preview listen to First Crack podcast #68 with Dan)

To sign up (to present or not) and more info: MinneDemo.

Good demos, great conversations. Superb way to come back from summer.

Flickr photos thanks to PFHyper including this one exposing the FeedSeeder project I’ve been working on.

I headed home as the crowds dwindled and conversation moved towards the next one. Definitely a good sign – yes more are needed.

BTW – Luke gave me a tip on his new aggregator/calendar for the local tech community: Central Standard Tech. And if you’re reading this from within the CST aggregator, you are 3L33T.

Graeme Thickins has all the juicy details and calls me indefatigable.