BarCamp Cork II on November 1st
It has been over two years since the last one, but BarCamp is finally coming back to Cork. It’s soon, very soon, only four weeks away. The venue is the lovely Webworks building in the City Centre, just like the last time.
We have a strong vision for this event and we need your help to make it happen on the day. Please read the first set of posts and give us your feedback. If you think you’ll be attending, please register. As always with BarCamps, it is completely free with the costs being taken care of by our kind sponsors.
If you wish to sponsor or help, please read the “what we need” post.
We have two mottos for BarCampCork II “talking with, not talking at” and “less talking, more doing”.
If you don’t know what a BarCamp/Unconference is or have never attended one, here is a simple description from the main BarCamp site:
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants.
Every attendee of BarCamp is expected to contribute in some way. That doesn’t necessarily mean you have to give a talk. But at the very least, you should take part in lots of the discussions that occur and share the knowledge you have in your area of expertise.
We’d love to see you down in Cork and we encourage anyone based outside of Ireland who reads this blog to consider flying in for the day.
Cross-Country OCC Hookup
Three of the Irish OpenCoffees are on at the same time tomorrow (Limerick, Waterford and Dublin). They are doing some live video hookups along with live blogging/tweeting/jaikuing. Sounds like it’ll be a lot of fun!
All the details over at Brightspark Blog.
Support for companies attending Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco
The Digital Media Forum has secured funding through InterTradeIreland, the Skillnets initiative and Enterprise Ireland to support companies wishing to attend the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco (22nd – 25th April 2008).
This will be a competitive process and successful companies will receive €1,500 towards the cost of attending the conference. Only one attendee per company may be supported.
To register your interest in attending please contact Irene Kavanagh -Â Â irene@digitalmediaforum.net – with a brief profile of your company and your reasons for wishing to attend the conference.
If you have any further queries, you can contact them at 01 4893602.
Cork Blogger Dinner
Alexia Golez is arranging a Blogger Dinner in Cork for Sunday the 2nd March on the weekend of the Blogtalk Conference and WebCamp. You can expect some really interesting visitors (and locals!) to be there. Please let Alexia know if you wish to attend over on her blog.
Next Meetup in National Software Centre on Jan 25th
The next Cork OpenCoffee is on Friday week in the NSC in Mahon. Map here.
Many thanks to Catherine Wall in it@cork for arranging the boardroom in the NSC and to it@cork themselves for kindly sponsoring the coffee.
If you are interested in demoing your product/idea at this session, please shout ASAP! Suggestions for a core theme or topic for the meet-up should be given in the comments here so we can discuss.
Curry 2.0 Service Pack 1
The irrepressible Paul Walsh and Aido “Aido” McMahon from Segala will be paying visits to Cork and Dublin next week. They’d love to meet up for a pint, food and some arguments about Facebook!
It’s Cork from 6pm on Monday 7th and Dublin on the 8th in Jaipur on South Great Georges Street.
Dinner in Cork is Rossini’s at 8pm. All welcome but please RSVP by Saturday lunchtime at the latest to walter AT sxoop DOT com
