The title means “Let’s go to Demo.ps”
After the second meeting of Demo.ps, I understand now! There are alot of entrepreneurs.
Demo.ps: Palestinian Entrepreneurship Forum for Startups and Technology
Or in Arabic: تجمع المبادرين و الرياديين الفلسطينيين “.
It’s the first gesture of its kind in Palestine, to talk about innovations and startups in general, e-marketing and solutions, technology and much more.
Day after a day, people wants to know more about Demo.ps, the people behind it and the idea itself. In my previous post “what’s demo.ps”, I wrote it in rush, and nothing -almost- was clear. Well, some more information.
The Team
The Idea
From the beginning, the idea came and buzzed while a meeting of the three Guys of the team: Amr, Ayman and Omar. First we thought of a video community for technologist in Nablus. Later, we decide to make it such an event from time to time.
In The Action
We’ve done the first session and the introduction session was in my dad office, with the help of Mohammed Salameh, and attending of 20 invited people including Dr. Baker Abdulhaq. The attendees were encouraging of the idea, they liked it and wanted to know more.
We begun our activity through a facebook page for Demo.ps. We collected more than 100 of fans in couple of days. We made a twitter channel (@demo_ps) also! We’ve gone social! The Demo.ps website is currently in the beta stage, check it out!
For preparing the second meeting, we’ve got help from Dr. Baker Abdulhaq. And it was done on Saturday, Feb, 20 in a computer lab in the university. Yes, it was amazing. We faced the rapid reaction of the attendees that we didn’t expect! Many people would like to talk.
Shots… Say Cheese!
Challenges
In the second meeting, some people bet on us, that the attendees won’t break the 10 people! Well, the attendees were 10 multiply 8. Yes almost 80 people were attended this meeting, and many others said sorry that they couldn’t attend. So, see you next meeting.
Next time, we expect more people, so more space is needed!
Special Thanks
- - Dr. Baker Abdulhaq
- - Inst. Mohammed Salameh
- - Dr. Maher Arafat
- - All attendees of the previous sessions so far.