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.

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!

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.
rubicon_center_screenshot

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.

conference room

Rubicon Center Conference Room

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

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.