Cork Open Coffee Friday the 13th
Hi OCCers,
This weeks Cork Open Coffee is in the Rubicon Centre, CIT Campus Bishopstown on Friday 13th from 10am – 12pm. It will be held downstairs in the lobby area as the Seminar Room is booked.
The demo slot will be taken up by one of our newest regulars, Israel Finnerty. Israel & his partner Dawn Manning will be showcasing their new company FireSale.ie – Ireland’s first Buy, Sell, Haggle & Auction website. The site will be previewed along with a discussion of the FireSale.ie opening event on November 20th in Corks Vision Centre.
Coffee and Delicious nibbles
Thanks to generous sponsorship from CityLocal Cork, there will be great coffee from Mr Cotton Coffee and some delicious freshly baked healthy foods from Delicious.ie available.
Barcamp Cork
The 3rd Cork Barcamp event is coming up on Saturday!! Barcamp is an “unconference\” aimed at stimulating contacts and idea generation amongst entrepreneurs, freelancers and business people. Attendance is free but if you are goi! ng to attend, please register at http://www.barcampcork.com/register/
Parking
There are some construction works going one outside the Rubicon centre this week so parking spaces will be reduced so arrive early or park elsewhere if you can to avoid problems.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Cork Open Coffee Friday the 16th
This weeks Cork Open Coffee is Friday the 16th at 10am, in the Rubicon Centre in Bishopstown in Cork.
If you havent been to the Rubicon Centre before, take a look at their new site which has some pics and a map http://www.rubiconcentre.ie/
This Week, Joe Scanlon will be demoing a new site that he dreamt up and runs called LittleQuiz. LittleQuiz is a great site allowing you to enter competitions every week to win some pretty great stuff! This weeks competition is for a choice of mobile phones, sponsored by Loudervoice.com.
Some great coffee and nibbles will be there on the morning, free to all thanks to sponsorship from Paul Brugger from City Local Cork. The Coffee is from Mr Cotton Coffee and the nibbles are from Denise O Callaghans Delicious gluten free bakery.
If you like Cork Open Coffee, take a look at the Upcoming BarCamp Cork event in November in Cork, its like a day long Open Coffee.
See you all on Friday morning,
Gordon.
New Rubicon Center website
The Rubicon Center which hosts many of our Cork Open Coffee meetings has a grand spanking new website at http://www.rubiconcentre.ie/. Its a great looking site with some great imagery from around the Rubicon building. Cork Open Coffee is in their Useful Links section.
The site contains plenty of information about the range of services offered in the Rubicon. If you’re a start up business take a look at the Enterprise Start programme and the Genesis Enterprise programme.
Keep an eye on the Latest News section of the site for enrolments for these programmes and other goings on in the Rubicon. The Enterprise Start programme is taking enrolments right now.
The Admin section allows us to book the conference room for Friday mornings for Open Coffee demos, we’re booked in for the next few months so we’re well prepared for the next few meetings.
Rubicon Center Conference Room
Cork Open Beer
Cork Open Coffee is going strong each fortnight but there are a few who can’t make it on a Friday morning during work hours.
At the last Open Coffee in Nosh+Coffee it was decided to organise an evening event.
Right now the plan is to meet on Friday the 28th of August somewhere in
Cork.
Are you interested in attended an Open Coffee – evening style? Any
recommendations for a location and a time to kick off?
How about the newly renovated Bodega? Theres plenty of space inside and its
an ideal spot for evening meals, drinks etc.
Cork Open Coffee Friday August 7th
This weeks Cork Open Coffee is back in Nosh + Coffee, on Careys Lane, near Paul Street Shopping Centre.
Friday 7th August 10am – 12pm.
No formal demos, just open networking and idea-sharing as always.
Hope to see you all there tomorrow and feel free to bring any friends or other interested parties
Slides from David Reilly’s talk at Open Coffee
This morning David Reilly from Reilly & Co Solicitors spoke to Corks Open Coffee about Commercial Law.
It was an excellent presentation, David covered a lot of very relevant topics focused on those in commercial software development in a short time.
Davids presentation was called The Creation, Protection and Exploitation of Software – A Practical and Non-Harming Legal Review and covered the following areas:
- Legal background to ownership of software – VCs and The Exit Strategy
- Protection and Infringement of software
- Exploitation of software – how to get it right from the very start
A practical and commercial legal review aimed at software developers and those dealing in IT contracts.
Davids talk was also available online thanks to Shared Visions. Roland Steinmetz set up the room with a camera and speakers allowing the online viewers to participate from their offices, one user joined us from Munich!
Thank you all for attending.
Cork Open Coffee is on Friday July 24th
Hi OCCers,
This weeks Cork Open Coffee is on Friday July 24th in the Rubicon building next to CIT from 10am-12pm.
The Creation, Protection and Exploitation of Software
David Reilly from Reilly & Co. Solicitors will be presenting a talk on The Creation, Protection and Exploitation of Software – A Practical and Non-Harming Legal Review.
Topics will include:
- Legal background to ownership of software – VCs and The Exit Strategy
– Protection and Infringement of software
– Exploitation of software – how to get it right from the very start
This will be a practical and commercial legal review aimed at software developers and those dealing in IT contracts.
Virtual Open Coffee with Shard Visions
Roland Steinmetz from Shard Visions has arranged for a Virtual Open Coffee session this Friday to allow viewers to join in and view Davids talk online. Users can simply watch or interact using their own audio/video setup.
To join in, simply visit http://short.ie/vocc in your browser from 9.30am onwards on Friday.
Attendees will have to accept a download, its currently Win only and the download is 13MB.
Plug in a headset and a webcam before entering. The room is open for testing and login in at any time. Its recommended to login and setup before Friday.
Roland will be in from 9:30am on Friday and can check you audio and video remotely.
Thanks once again to the Rubicon for kindly hosting us.
See you there,
Gordon.
World Class Solutions Sales workshop in Cork
World Class Solutions are holding a workshop in Cork on the 29th July for business owners who want to kick-start their sales.
Participants will learn new sales and marketing techniques. They can also bring their promotional materials and website address and get individual help to improve them.
The workshop will run from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm, Wednesday the 29th of July in the Regus Centre the City Gate in Mahon. (Directions and map to City Gate here)
Places are limited. For more details including a course overview PDF, visit the World Class Solutions website or contact Bridie on 021-4373283
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Cork Open Coffee, July 10th
This weeks Cork Open Coffee will be in Brew Cafe on Paul Street in Cork at 10am.
There are no presentations this time. We are trying out a new location.
See you there!
Heres a map to Paul Street
Slides from The Embedded Entrepreneur
This morning Tom Doherty from Beyond Targets spoke to Corks Open Coffee about a concept called The Embedded Entrepreneur.
Toms talk, directed at Entrepreneurs encouraged those aiming to create a business to put their idea to the test as early as possible. Embed a pre-start entrepreneur in a host customers site for a fixed period of time and only launch a start-up once proof of concept has taken place within a host customer.
It was an excellent presentation and sparked plenty of conversation after the presentation. The slides of the presentation are below, thanks to Tom for sending them on.
Tom also mentioned an initiative he is running in Waterford called ExploreTech where a select number of technical people are brought together to focus on a specific objective. Based on the level of interest he is considering exploring this in Cork.
If you are interested, Contact Tom now as places are limited – Make direct contact with Tom Doherty at tom@beyondtargets.com or phone 0862574332 for an initial ExploreTech Cork meetup
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