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.

How do I sign up ?

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.

When and Where is it on ?

Ireland's first Barcamp will take place in Cork on Saturday September 30th in the Webworks building on Eglinton Street near Cork's City Hall.

Registration starts at 9:15 am and the first talk kicks off at 10:00 am.

Damien Mulley, Conor O'Neill and Walter Higgins will look after the organising from the Cork side.

How do I stay up to date with news about the event ?

Please keep an eye on the Official BarCampIreland Blog and subscribe to its RSS feed to get all the latest news.

How do I get there ?

Train timetable (Dublin - Cork - Dublin) 30th September

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 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:

1. Keith Bohanna - Talk, "Finding Your Niche: The story of dbTwang" with a couple of references to other niche businesses I have been involved in.
2. Conor O'Neill, Talk, "Funding/Outsourcing/Microformats"
3. John Breslin, Talk, "Semantic Social Software", Semantic Web/Blogs/Wikis/Forums
4. Julian Ellison, Talk, "Turning Dreams into Delusions" or "A twelve step guide to feckin up a really good opportunity -- lessons from 8 years of my last almost very successful start-up"
5. Walter Higgins, Talk, "Javascript Mindbombs: making a little javascript and a little CSS go a long way"
6. Alan O'Rourke, Talk, "User v Business: Finding a balance in a user interface with Toddle.ie"
7. Bernie Goldbach, Talk, "On Dropping EUR 35,000 for a Failed Start-up"
8. James Corbett, Talk, "OPML and the power of distributed directories"
9. Mary Gilmartin, Hear/Talk Ruby, Hear The industry in Ireland, Hear/Talk Standards.
10. Tom Raftery, Talk, "Web 2.0 - analysis of a blogstorm"
11. Joe Drumgoole, Crashed and Burned - War Stories Starting Software Companies in Ireland
12. Mark Twomey, Talk, "Data Retention: Myths, madness, and missed opportunities"
13. Add your Name

Hear:

Is there something in particular you would like to hear about at Barcampireland ? - Make it known here...

1. Fergus Burns, Hear, Microformats
2. Paul Watson, Backends in the Cloud, Amazon S3 and Amazon SQS with Rails
3. James Corbett, Hear, Angel Investor networks and visibility
4. Tom Keane, Hear, opportunities with live.com
5. Graham O'Rourke, Hear, "Mobile Web .. standards convergence of free-for-all?"

Paul Browne, Hear or Talk, Anything to do with Web 2.0 being applied to the Enterprise.

Kae Verens (webworks.ie,kae.verens.com) - Hear, Amazing ajaxy projects people have been working on. In particular, I'd like to see what ajax enhancements people have applied to in-house CMSes and other management tools. just realised the 30th is my son's 3rd birthday!

John Ward, Hear about other tech startups and their experiences in Ireland, Talk about using Ruby on Rails for development. Unable to make 30th.

Planners, Volunteers and Attendees

Planner

1. Fergus Burns (fergus.burns AT nooked.com)
2. Tom Raftery
3. Damien Mulley (Damien AT mulley.net) (Cork based)
4. Conor O'Neill(Cork based)
5. Walter Higgins(Cork based)
6. Add your Name

Jonathan Hill (Infacta) out of the country

Volunteer

1. Tom Raftery (tomrafteryit.net)
2. Paul Watson (paul@paulmwatson.com)
3. Alan O'Rourke [http://spoiltchild.com]
4. Derek Organ 1time
5. James Corbett EirePreneur
6. Conor O'Neill Argolon
7. Walter Higgins PXN8
8. Piaras Kelly
9. Clare Dillon Microsoft
10. Keith Bohanna www.dbtwangblog.com
11. Julian Ellison Tablane
12. Graham O'Rourke MOR Solutions
13. Eoghan McCabe eoghanmccabe.com
14. Bernard Tyers RunningWithBulls I am away til the 15th of Sept, but am interested to help out with whatever is needed. I will hopefully make it there.
15. Joe Drumgoole joedrumgoole.com
16. Add your Name

Paul Browne FirstPartners.net Unable to make the 30th , but have fun!

Attendees

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

format: name, blog link

1. Tom Raftery
2. EdByrne
3. Joe Drumgoole
4. Walter Higgins
5. Fergus Burns, http://blog.nooked.com
6. Paul Rooney http://www.enookdesign.com
7. Conor O'Neill Argolon
8. James Corbett EirePreneur
9. Clare Dillon Microsoft
10. Tom Keane NitroSell
11. Kevin Peyton The Health Tech Blog
12. Anthony Griffin T+1
13. Eoghan McCabe eoghanmccabe.com
14. Des Field Corbett GC Consulting
15. Keith Bohanna dbtwang
16. Fintan Costello www.DataClean.com
17. Dermod Moore Bonhomie
18. Bernie Goldbach conjectures
19. Adrian Smith 17od
20. Paul Power http://www.peerside.com
21. Keith Gaughan, http://talideon.com/
22. Derek Organ, http://derekorgan.com
23. Louis Crowe, http://www.readpal.com
24. John Breslin http://www.johnbreslin.com/
25. Paschal Leloup developers.ie ncte scoilnet
26. Brian Kennedy http://www.discover-mobile.com
27. Eoghan Murray http://www.qatano.com/
28. Julian Ellison Tablane
29. Graham O'Rourke MOR Solutions
30. John Timmons, http://www.stalltheball.com
31. Pawel Nowak, 23words
32. Simon Mc Dermott, Attentio
33. Evert Bopp, wimaxxed wimax-eu
34. Emmet Connolly, blog.thoughtwax.com
35. Mary Gilmartin, Netrunning
36. Georgie Casey, My Blog
37. Paul O Mahony, Siopa Eile
38. Stephen Downey, Passion Development
39. DD
40. Pat Phelan http://blog.roam4free.ie/
41. John Henry Donovan http://www.5pieces.com
42. Brian Cleland InterTradeIreland
43. John Whelan Blog: Offportal.com Real-life: alatto
44. Diarmaid Ó Culáin: Crunchypear.com
45. James Cooley James Cooley blogs
46. Chris Chedgey headway
47. Mark Twomey, Blipverts
48. Philip Nathan, vehicle-tracking.blogspot.com
49. Siasy Collins, EuropeanIrish.com
50. Pat Rice
51. Adam Beecher
52. Ruairí Newman
53. Add your Name

John Ward Cengal Unable to make 30th

Jonathan Hill, [http://www.infacta.com/pub]

Kae Verens webworks.ie blog my main project at the moment can't make it - son's 3rd birthday

Paul Browne FirstPartners.net

Rowan Nairn eurekaman Damn, out of the country again

Sponsors

1. Webworks
2. Qumas
3. Roam4Free.ie
4. Heineken
5. Bubble Brothers
6. I would like to Sponsor Barcamp...

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Anyone fancy a wee tipple afterwards? ~~~~adam