Cork Open Coffee Friday 22nd January
Cork Open Coffee is back for the new year!
This weeks Open Coffee will be on in the new (and dry) UCC Western Gate building on Western Road. Friday the 22nd at 10am. We will be in Room 231/226 on level 2.
James Little from UCC, a regular at Open Coffee has arranged for a room for us for the morning. Thanks James! Coffee on Friday will be supplied by Mr. Cotton Coffee. James will be giving a brief talk on Innovation Vouchers.
There is room for another if anyone would like to give a talk or get feedback on their product or service.
Last year, the Coffee for the last couple of months supplied by Mr. Cotton was kindly sponsored by Paul Brugger from CityLocal Cork.
If there are any companies out there that would like to sponsor coffee for some of the meetings, please get in touch using the comments below or email us using corkopencoffee .at. gmail.com. In return you’ll get some publicity about your business on this blog and the notification email that goes out to members for each meeting.
Talk to you all on Friday!
Cork Open Coffee Friday 11th at 10am
This weeks Cork Open Coffee is in the Rubicon Centre, CIT Campus Bishopstown on Friday 11th from 10am – 12pm.This the last Cork Open Coffee of 2009.
There will be 2 demos on Friday. John Dennehy will be talking about his great time tracking application at http://www.assemblypoint.com and Paul Brugger will be talking about a new Twitter application called @Localnumber which allows you to search and instantly receive contact phone numbers for businesses types in your area through Twitter.
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.
Hope to see you all there tomorrow and feel free to bring any friends or other interested parties, ALL WELCOME.
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.
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.
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
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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