It’s unbelievable how fast time passes – it’s been already five months since we’ve met at the Democamp East/West.

We’d like to remind you that great event and present you some photos made by Robert Janiszewski – photographer and blog’s author. On his blog you can find information for those who are pursuing or intend to pursue their own start-up and many (photo)relations from various barcamp events.

Here you can find all photos from Democamp East/West made by Robert.

Enjoy!

watch poznajpasazera.pl at lookr.tv website

watch filmaster.com at lookr.tv website

During Democamp’s day two every start-up had an opportunity to show itself in front of  the camera. As we informed lookr.tv has recorded presentations and short speeches of start-ups representatives, who talked about their projects, business models, benefits and targets.

First clips are already available. All materials will be published on our website, on lookr.tv and on startups.pl, so it’s an excellent form of promotion.

Enjoy the films:

Democamp East/West is already behind us. The event gathered almost 300 participants, including guests from abroad. Taking into consideration the fact that it was the first effort to organize international barcamp-like event in Poland – that’s an impressive result!

The first day we had the opportunity to see 13 unconference presentations in two parallel sessions. By dint of open agenda everyone had a chance to show their internet-related passions, projects and skills. We hope that the “open agenda” will catch on in the Polish events for good.

Day two was entirely dedicated to start-ups. During the Start-up Competition invited Judges selected the best projects from 11 that were presented. Every start-up team participating in competition had 7 minutes for presentation and 4 minutes of comments, questions and answers time. Judges evaluated every presentation according to business criteria. Jury was represented by Konrad Sierzputowski (Onet.pl), Paweł Chudziński (Team Europe Ventures), Bartek Pucek (Kreativ), Jacek Wysocki (Nugg.ad), Borys Drajczyk (Vivex Investment), Dirk Kayser (BMP), Zbigniew Krzewiński (Speed-Up Group), Marta Dzikiewicz (ARBOinteractive).

Here are the results of Jury’s voting:

1. erasmuse.pl
2. filmaster.com
3. gieldagwiazd.pl
4. listonic.pl
5. ex aequo: mob.pl, iprezenty.pl
6. mololo.pl
7. wrapme.pl
8. liga-kibicow.pl
9. naspolke.pl
10. poznajpasazera.pl

In addition to Judges’ voting we also conducted another voting among all Observers via SMS.

Results of Observers voting:

1. erasmuse.pl 39 votes
2. mob.pl 29 votes
3. wrapme.pl 23 votes

(all the results of Observers voting you can find here).

Winners received many valuable awards including managed server founded by Hostersi, monthly advertising campaigns in Student TV, 500 000, 250 000 and 100 000 views in Bizon Media and various material prizes.

Congratulations to the winners!

Democamp, of course, couldn’t take place without the good will and commitment of many people. That’s why we’d like to thank our sponsors – BMP, Przelewy24, Hostersi, Microsoft BizSpark and Bizon Media. We also thank Beer Fingers and Energia Lecha – companies that have supported us – and all media patrons.

But most of all we’d like to thank all the participants – without them Democamp East/West wouldn’t make sense. We’d be greatful for sharing us all observations and remarks to contribute ideas to improve Democamp, which is likely to become important event in the IT calendar.

Thanks a lot!

Here, here, here and here you can already view photos from the Democamp photos. Enjoy!

Update: take a look at step-by-step summary on ARBOblog!

Few notes ago we began to introduce our sponsors. Now we’d like to present other great companies which decided to support Democamp East/West. Without them this event couldn’t take place, so we are really greatful.

Przelewy24

Przelewy24 is a specialized service for payments transfer between the customer and the seller. It is a product of the Poznan DialCom24 – one of the first companies in Poland using and providing the Internet commercially.

Service provides access to various methods of payment, receives payments from all customers, confirms completion of payments and forwards those payments to seller – all in a safe and easy way.

Opportunities offered by Przelewy24:

• Immediate confirmation of payment
• The largest number of channels for payment and the largest number of potential customers
• No connection charges and monthly charges
• Low commisions
• Safe transactions
• Free support during installation and exploitation

Hostersi

Hostersi were established in August 2007. The company specializes in hosting, web performance optimization, management servers and advice.

The most important campany values are:

• Highest quality – Hostersi improve their knowledge to fulfill all customers expectations. They’re open to changes, choose partners carefully and take decisions flexibly. Company’s solutions base on advanced technologies and equipment with the highest degree of safety.
• Innovation – The company sets itself ambitious targets. It creates innovative technological solutions that meet the needs of hosting customers, and – above all – supports them in developing their long-term development strategy.
• Unique team – Perfect solutions are the result of teamwork, that’s way the company’s advantage is a unique team of experts with wide knowledge and experience.

Community driven after-after party. Meeting in front of Akumulatory dormitory. Contact: +48 697 794 587. everyone’s invited.

How to vote? Send an SMS to +48 661 001 414 (send the number of your chosen start-up ONLY). You can vote only once.

Voting system starts when we say it’s time to vote (it should be after 3rd round of presentations – about 16:00). Please do not try to vote earlier because your votes are going to be cancelled and not counted.

Start-up numbers:

1. erasmuse.pl
2. mob.pl
3. iprezenty.pl
4. filmaster.com
5. naspolke.pl
6. mololo.pl
7. listonic.pl
8. marro.ws
9. poznajpasazera.pl
10. gieldagwiazd.pl
11. liga-kibicow.pl
12. crazymenu.com
13. wrapme.pl
14. obiados.pl*
15. dooyt.com*
16. fach-w-rekach.pl*

* – non-presenting start-ups but having exposition space

As you know DEMOCAMP East/West will start with barcamp-like presentations and discussions.

It’s an outstanding opportunity to show your internet-related passion, projects, skills in front of almost 300 participants.

We pre-booked some presentation slots but there are still a few that you can apply for TOMORROW during the opening ceremony. You have a possibility to choose between preparing a presentation and starting a moderated discussion in yor interest area. Polish is also acceptable if you don’t feel like using english but still want to present.