Coffee and Scone Sponsorship
The turnout for yesterday’s OCC was smaller than usual as expected due to the Bank Holiday Weekend. However we did have some superb conversations mainly focused on mobile, mobile services, SMS, Jaiku, Swarmteams and Location Based Services. A very interested side-chat occurred on To-Do list applications and how weak many of them are. Our current tool in LouderVoice (Remember The Milk) is good particularly due to Google integration but still frustrates.
I’m delighted to announce that the Rubicon Centre will be sponsoring the coffee at OCC from now on. A big thank you to Paul Healy for making this happen. A big thank-you also to Mr Cotton who has been providing the high quality product at each session.
However, we do have to take care of scones/nibbles ourselves so I would ask you to email me at corkopencoffee AT gmail DOT com if you are willing to be part of a round-robin system for paying and getting these for each session.
As always, thoughts and suggestions to the email address or as comments here.
Next OCC this Friday in the Rubicon
Our regular meet-up in the Rubicon is on again at 10am this Friday. Despite the Bank Holiday, we thought we would go ahead as usual. A few items which you may wish to discuss:
- The MashupCamp event is coming to Dublin on Nov 10-12th. If you are involved in web development, this could be very interesting for you.
- I have been given several free tickets (worth over €1000 each) to the Web2Expo Event in Berlin from Nov 5th-8th. If you would like one and can definitely attend, let me know by e-mail or on Friday.
- Enterprise Ireland is once again processing “new company cert” applications via the employment grant mechanism. Having this cert is a pre-requisite for getting approved for BES. Contact your EI DA or CEB for more details. Both Aileen Cussen and Martin Corkery would be happy to answer your questions for EI.
- The it@cork awards are on Nov 1st. Well done to Cork OCC regulars Cubic Telecom for making the finals of the Emerging Company Award.
