Videos from Your Country Your Call at Cork OpenCoffee
Two videos of the Jump crew in action.
Initial talk to everyone:
Sub-group Brain-Storming:
Next Few OpenCoffees
Here are the upcoming Cork OpenCoffee meetups:
- Oct 2nd 2009 – Nosh+Coffee, Carey’s Lane
- Oct 16th 2009 – Rubicon Centre CIT
- Oct 30th 2009 – Nosh+Coffee, Carey’s Lane
Hopefully you can extrapolate further dates and locations from this.
Citylocal Cork Sponsoring Cork OpenCoffee
Since Cork OpenCoffee began in early 2007, we’ve had some intermittent sponsorship of the coffee and scones which has always been appreciated. So we’re delighted that Paul Brugger from Citylocal Cork has agreed to sponsor three of the Rubicon sessions (with the first one just two days ago).
This means no more icky instant coffee and the arrival of the great Mr Cotton coffee instead. By the way, well done to Declan for his appearance on TV3 this week.
Citylocal is great resource for local businesses, so the fit with OpenCoffee is perfect. In addition to the paid business listings, you can advertise your properties, post local events and sell items, all for free.
Thanks Paul!
Friday 21st August – OCC & VOCC
Hi OCCers!
This weeks Cork Open Coffee Club is on in the Rubicon Centre in Bishopstown, near CIT Campus. Please note that parking is limited at the moment due to building works so you may have to park in the CIT overflow car park.
Usual time: 10am – 12pm.
Roland Steinmetz from Shared Visions will be running Virtual Open Coffee (VOCC) again this week after the success of the last session.
If you can’t attend in person, be there virtually! You will have to accept a download and if you want to participate, plug in headset and camera before entering the meeting. This is PC only – no Mac or Linux at the moment unfortunately. Here is the link for the #vocc for Friday: http://www.nefsis.com/join.html?dn=OCC
Roland will talk briefly at the beginning of the session to introd! uce the concept (he has promised us he won’t do sales!) just neutral benefits about savings in time, expenses and high end remote communication.
Speakers:
We are always looking for speakers for our demo slots so if you (or anyone you know) has a new start up business idea and wants to get feedback from like-minded entrepreneurs, please do get in touch. We request that no sales-pitches are done in these sessions, but they are used as a way to brainstorm about your idea/technology and make suggestions. These usually last no more than 15/20 mins presentation and 10/15 mins Q&A.
Looking forward to seeing you all there on Friday. Don’t forget, we are now on twitter so you can follow @CorkOpenCoffee for updates 
Many thanks,
Ciara Crossan
OpenCoffee tomorrow – Friday 17th April
This weeks OCC is “coffee in the city” – we’re going to go back to Nosh and Coffee, on Carey’s Lane, near Paul Street Shopping Centre.
Friday 17th April 10am – 12pm.
No formal demos planned as we are in a coffee shop, but open networking and idea-sharing will abound as always
Hope to see you all there tomorrow and feel free to bring any friends or other interested parties, ALL WELCOME.
Kindest Regards,
Ciara
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Ciara Crossan
Founder
www.weddingdates.ie
Rubicon Center
Bishopstown
Cork
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UCC – your local source of innovation
Cork OCC on Friday March 6th will be held in the Rubicon Centre, Bishopstown and we are delighted to welcome James Little, the External Liaison Officer at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre, part of Computer Science Dept at UCC to present to us on how new businesses & entrepreneurs in the area could benefit from working with their local university.
Companies depend on innovation, yet how do you find this if you are thinking of starting or expanding a company? UCC may have the answer.
The government has been funding many research projects with the
university over the past five years. Most of these have been
established with the objective of a commercial outcome, yet the
Intellectual Property (IP), software and ideas can only be taken so far
within a university environment. It is the role of the University’s
Technology Transfer Office to bring these inventions out into the
commercial market place. This presents a real challenge, linking
entrepreneurs with ready available fully developed IP, which could
provide the seed for a start-up company, the refocus of an existing
company or an additional product to an established one.
James will outline the current mechanism within UCC for accessing and negotiating IP while disclosing one or two examples.
When? Friday 6th March 10am – 12pm
Where? Rubicon Centre, Bishopstown, Cork
OCC in Luigi’s tomorrow 20th February
Tomorrow’s open coffee will be in Luigi Malones, opposite the Opera House in Cork. There is no one scheduled for an official demo but with the Blog Awards being hosted in the Rebel County this weekend we will be delighted to hopefully welcome a few new blogger faces to Open Coffee.
See you all there!
Ciara Crossan
First Open Coffee of 2009 in Cork
Happy New Year to all, hope you are refreshed, revived and full of vigor and enthusiasm for what 2009 has to offer all of us flegling businesses in the Cork area!
The first OCC of 2009 is on this Friday, the 9th January in the Rubicon Centre in CIT at our usual time of 10am-12pm.
We want to have a brainstorming session for ideas for improvements for the group itself or ideas of events/additions that we can implement in 2009. So have a think over the next few days and come armed with fresh ideas!
If anyone would like to take the demo slot, please leave a comment below.
Looking forward to seeing you all there. As always, OCC is OPEN, so if you know of any other businesses or individuals who might be interested in coming along, please forward them this post.
See you Friday!
Ciara
This weeks OCC in the Rubicon
Hello Cork OpenCoffee!
As was announced previously by Conor, myself and Gordon are now sharing the load of coordinating the OCC events. As someone who has benefitted greatly from OpenCoffee in the few months I have been attending, I was delighted to be asked to get more involved and help out a bit more.
The beauty of OpenCoffee is just that, its openness; however I will endeavour to follow the format that Conor has adopted and do a quick round-the-table (we’re talking 30 seconds here guys!) and then open it up to a demo and Q&A and then general networking and sharing of ideas.
The next OCC is on this Friday in the Rubicon Centre in CIT at our usual time of 10am-12. If anyone would like to take the demo slot, please leave a comment. If not, I will take the opportunity to showcase my site weddingdates.ie which launched a month ago and would be delighted to hear all your feedback.
Looking forward to seeing you all there. Also – if you know of any other businesses or individuals who might be interested in coming along, please invite them to come along – the more the merrier!
Many thanks,
Ciara Crossan
