Comments on: Saskatoon’s Fledgling Tech Community

By: Bookmarks about Tech

Bookmarks about Tech — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:15:17 +0000

[...] – bookmarked by 4 members originally found by cfmatre on 2008-12-31 Saskatoon’s Fledgling Tech Community http://brendanking.ca/2008/07/11/saskatoons-fledgling-tech-community/ – bookmarked by 2 members [...]

By: Nevin Van Nest

Nevin Van Nest — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:49:09 +0000

Hey Brendan,

I just read the article in the Star Phoenix. Congrats on the funding!! I am looking forward to watching Vesdasta take off. All the best.

Take care bud,

Nevin

By: What I learned at the VendAsta / MyFrontSteps summer BBQ / Pool Party « The VendAsta Blog

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:56:58 +0000

[...] like what Brendan King wrote on his blog IRT Saskatoon’s Fledgling Tech Community and when you see a group like VendAsta (in the office or by the pool), one realizes it is a pretty [...]

By: Brendan King

Brendan King — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:06:58 +0000

Thanks for the post Jason, sorry to hear that you were not able to proceed. I don’t know how far along you were in your planning, but I would love to talk to you. I am going to be in San Francisco from the 21 to the 26th. If email your contact info from either of the links here at http://www.myfrontsteps.com/about/contact.php I will reply and setup a time to talk.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:22:56 +0000

I was on track to setting up a small development office in town for a Chicago based company. If everything had gone as planned, we probably would have opened up sometime this summer hiring 4-6 developers. Sadly mergers and acquisitions change everything, and that dream went with it.

By: Brendan King

Brendan King — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:13:24 +0000

Wow, I am sorry to hear about your Compusmart experience. When I converted Delron to a Compusmart Saskatoon in 1995 we became the third Compusmart in Canada as part of a national chain. We worked hard to make our customers happy. I am always amazed at how many people I meet who remember me and thank me for the service and personal attention I gave them as a customer. Now that said, I sold my stake in and moved on from Compusmart in early 2000. So while I am not trying to deflect from your criticism I guess I would point out that I probably wasn’t there to help you – if I were I would hope I would have made you happy.

By: A happy Compusmart Customer

A happy Compusmart Customer — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:36:08 +0000

Compusmart was the most unprofessional, useless shop ever. You were incapable of fixing the simplest problems caused by your terrible work in the first place. It’s only fitting that place went under. No IT person in Saskatoon with any intelligence had any respect for that dump, since they all knew any 12-year-old with a screwdriver could fix a system better than the “tech support” at compusmart.

By: Ginger Koolick

Ginger Koolick — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:38:59 +0000

Good one!

I should clarify and probably edit my own post – though my husband won’t hear of us moving, that’s a feeling I strongly share these days. When we moved to Saskatoon from Calgary, I was more than willing and happy to come back to the province I was raised and educated in. It was the right decision for so many reasons.

You are so spot on about the workers here being intelligent and hard working. Every day I am grateful, impressed and proud to be in the company of such down to earth, egoless, awesome and inspired people.

Just to point out BarCamp Saskatoon is driven by Ryan also myself and everyone who attends and participates.