This wiki has been set-up to help plan the Barcamp in Waterford on 20th January 2007

Blog: http://barcampsoutheast.wordpress.com/

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What is Barcamp ?

Barcamp is a technology-focused, ad-hoc gathering of passionate folks who want to share, interact and spread the love around what they spend their days and nights toiling away on.

It is an informal gathering of people from technical and business backgrounds, where information and experiences are exchanged. The event is geared towards sharing knowledge and learning from others and there is a policy of encouraging active participation in all discussions.

How Much does it cost ?

Barcamp is free. However, if you plan to attend Barcamp you are strongly encouraged to sign up so we can gauge how many will attend.

When and Where is it on ?

Where - ArcLabs Research and Innovation building in Waterford IT: Research and Innovation Centre Website

Directions - Go to http://www.uk.map24.com/search?q=Carriganore%20Waterford

When - The date is Saturday January 20, '07

Time - CHANGE - 10.00 to 16.45 - we are going to run speakers in 45 minute slots to allow for good discussion and Q&A sessions afterwards. 4 rooms will be available so a 10am start gives us 28 slots and also the possibility to stretch at the end. We will schedule talks to try and avoid simultaneous runs of similiar topics.

Wheelchair accessability ?

The venue is fully accessable for anyone in a wheelchair - with lifts to the first floor and kitted out toilets. If you have any questions or other requirements please let us know.

What Hotels are available in the area?

Cheapest (via several sites) seems to be the TravelLodge (single €59, double €69). Waterford Marina is also reasonably priced at €69. For those that can't bear to be away from an internet connection, the Ramada Viking (€84) might be a better pick (but it's 3km out of the town center). The Ramada is the closest to the event location. Actually, whilst the Ramada quotes €79 per room not including breakfast, you can get a single room there including breakfast for €53 on ebookers.ie

Rates sourced from:

TravelNow.com

ActiveHotels.com

How do I sign up ?

Please send your contact email address to barcampsoutheast at gmail dot com. Thanks.

Let us know what topics you are interested in hearing or talking about by emailing us.

Alternatively, if you are comfortable using Wiki software, you can sign up by editing this page

Sponsors - thank you

This barcamp is being smiled upon by the following entities:

Blacknight Hosting Solutions

Waterford County Development Board 

Purcell Cullen Kennedy, Solicitors

Datapac

Tag

For photos uploaded to flickr / powerpoint uploaded to slideshare etc, use the tag barcampwaterford.

Bar Talk Ideas - What folks want to hear about or talk about.

Barcamp is a conference with a difference.

At Barcamp, anyone can present. In fact, if this is your first time at Barcamp, presenting is actively encouraged. Talks will typically be 15-20 minutes followed by 15 minutes Q&A/Discussion but talks can be as short or as long as you like. You can use Powerpoint slides, or forego slides altogether. Talks can be technical or non-technical.

The Barcamp ethos is about sharing information. There is no overriding theme to the conference. If you would like to talk at Barcamp you can either sign-up beforehand or sign-up on the day.

There will be a whiteboard and post-its. If you want to sign-up on the day, just post the title of your talk on an available time-slot on the whiteboard.

Format: Name, Topic

Talk:

Don't forget to add your name to the attendee list too! Talk Grid - topic summary

• Bernie Goldbach from Podcasting in Ireland, Conn O Muineachain from Edgecast Media Tom Raftery of PodLeaders.com and other Irish podheads will run a series of four 20-minutes talks under the heading of "Podcamp Waterford".
• Walter Higgins : Demystifying Paypal - how to make money while you sleep.
• Tom Raftery : Not sure yet - possibly something on business blogging or Web 2.0 technologies in the Enterprise?.
• James Corbett : How blogging can win you a position on an Advisory Board more detail
• Sabrina Dent : Second Life and Virtual World opportunities (per James)
• Rory Fitzpatrick : Satellite broadband for the roving and the rural
• Conor O'Neill : Something interesting I swear. Will give a title closer to the date.
• Brian Caulfield : Accessing Venture Capital Funding
• Paul Watson: Unconventional Rails. Rails outside of its comfort zone. more detail
• Haydn Shaughnessy : A Discerning Future for Content
• Elly Parker : Dealing with Death & Divorce in today's Digital World more detail
• Paul Walsh : Enabling Trust On The Web
• Aidan Finn : Idiots guide to Ruby on Rails, Django, Turbogears and other assorted newfangled frameworks. more detail
• Ferghal Reidy: Waterford Co. Enterprise Board: "Free office space competition
• TJ McIntyre: "Who owns software? What developers and clients need to know before the lawyers get involved."
• James Cooley Eclipse for Java and other languages. more detail
• Laurence Veale: Better presentations: ten tips (or more) to improve your slide show presentations
• Alan Burke: The Benefits of a CMS for a Club Website / A year with Drupal
• Brian Cleland: OpenIreland & Open Source Software in Ireland
• Damien Mulley: Pissing People Off: Experiences from running a lobby group
• Donncha O Caoimh: WordPress.com - running the biggest wpmu site in the world
• Evert Bopp: The need for an alternative telecoms infrastructure in Ireland
• Jan Blanchard: Starting a Web 2.0 business in Ireland

Hear:

Is there something in particular you would like to hear about at Barcampireland ?

• James C talking about business applications of the various Google Earth/Sketchup tools and mashes (Keith B)
• Tom Raftery - CIX update (Tom C.)
• Tom Raftery - Emerging trends in business blogging (Tom C.)
• Donncha O Caoimh - Wordpress MU and Wordpress.com (Tom A)
• Tom Raftery - What Tom told Microsoft.
• Joe Drumgoole, Conor O'Neill, Keith Bohanna, Alan O'Rourke and Walter Higgins in a panel discussion on "Building a Web Services company". (James Corbett) (Happy to contribute to this, said Joe Drumgoole)
• Alan Burke - Something about OpenID
• Anyone fancy leading a talk along the lines of "Encouraging Safe Web Usage in Children"??

Pecha Kucha:

Iin which each speaker presents 20 slides for 20 seconds each. Would people be interested in presenting at/attending this? Please respond below. (James Corbett stealing Emmett Connolly's idea. See Wired article about it.)

• James Corbett (still thinking about topic)

Planner

Keith Bohanna http://keith.bohanna.com

Tom Corcoran tcorcoran@wit.ie

Volunteer

Mary Fearon mfearon@wit.ie

Attendees

If you are attending Barcampireland, please add your name to the list.

format: name, blog link

1. Laurence Veale [iQ Content]
2. Walter Higgins http://sxoop.wordpress.com/
3. James Corbett http://www.EirePreneur.com
4. Conor O'Neill LouderVoice
5. Michele Neylon Blacknight / Pensieri
6. Bernie Goldbach Blog
7. Ken McGuire work / Creative Imagination
8. James Cooley work / blog
9. Tom Raftery Tom Raftery I.T.
10. Aidan Finn http://aidanf.net
11. John Butler work / blog
12. Aidan Coonan www.eventireland.com
13. Will Letters from the idiot
14. Dennis Deery http://www.irose.com
15. Tom Atkins http://minktoast.net
16. Paul Watson pwatson@tssg.org
17. James Mernin jmernin@tssg.org
18. Brian Caulfield brian@tvc.com
19. Conn O Muineachain Edgecast Media
20. Haydn Shaughnessy Media Angler
21. Paul Walsh work / Search Thresher
22. Elly Parker ellybabes
23. John Ronan John's Blog
24. Brian fives brian.fives@enterprise-ireland.com
25. Stephen Downey Passion Development
26. Sabrina Dent Linden Lifestyles
27. Rory Fitzpatrick Mediasat
28. Richard Delevan sicNotes / Representing Dead Tree Media
29. Chris Gallagher cgallagher@tssg.org
30. Ferghal Reidy freidy@cablesurf.net
31. TJ McIntyre
32. Brian Cleland OpenIreland
33. Paul Power Peerside
34. Tom Doherty Lecterna Management Ltd (e-delegate Marketing)
35. Alan Burke CompuSquad Ltd Athenry AC
36. Martin Whelan Deise Design
37. Justin MacCarthy [http://www.maccarthy.org]
38. Donncha O Caoimh
39. Zeta Dooly zdooly@tssg.org
40. Siasy Collins European Irish/ blog
41. Ray Griffin rgriffin@wit.ie
42. Keith Gaughan; Talideon.com
43. Kim Leahy kim@kimleahy.net
44. Cathal O' Riordan coriordan@tssg.org
45. Colm Dunphy cdunphy@wit.ie / |blog
46. Niall Doherty himself@ndoherty.com
47. Brian White blog
48. David Murphy notblog
49. Kieran Gleeson notblog
50. Paul McAvinchey Yaboya
51. Andrew McAvinchey
52. Cormac Moylan Blog
53. Martin Murphy
54. Chris Chedgey http://chris.headwaysoftware.com
55. Barry Downes bdownes@wit.ie
56. Damien Mulley
57. Joe Drumgoole
58. Timm Preetz
59. Evert Bopp Wimax-EU
60. Jan Blanchard
61. John Handelaar
62. George Pratt
63. Miguel Ponce de Leon MiguelPdL's Blog 
64. Eoghan McCabe
65. John McCormac 

Barcamp Dinner - Saturday evening in Waterford

If you are attending the Barcamp Dinner, please add your name to the list. Venue will be confirmed once numbers are closer to final

1. Conor O'Neill
2. Damien Mulley
3. Elly Parker
4. James Corbett
5. Keith Bohanna
6. Tom Corcoran
7. George Pratt
8. Paul Watson
9. Michele Neylon

Need a Lift? Post here!

I plan to drive down from Galway on Saturday morning, so I can offer one place, in my small van.

Alternatively, if somebody is travelling down in a larger vehicle and can offer me a lift, I'd happily accept.

Alan: alanburke@fastmail.fm