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.

For future BarCamp's in Ireland please go here for discussion

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 ?

1. Jury's Inn (Room rate is 125 per night)
2. Isaac's Hotel
3. Cork hotel search
4. Other Accomadation suggestions welcome.

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 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:

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 "Discovering Ruby", Hear/Talk "Web Standards from an Irish point of view".
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. Robert Synnott, Talk, "Web programming in Common Lisp; modern problems in a Cold War language."
14. Brian Caulfield, Trinity Venture Capital, Talk, "Understanding and accessing venture capital funding."
15. Evert Bopp. Wimax EU. Talk, "Convergence: WiFi hotzones, location based services, social networking & web based applications".
16. 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?"
6. Mary Gilmartin, Hear, The industry in Ireland,
7. Emmet Connolly, Pecha Kucha session (in which each speaker presents 20 slides for 20 seconds each)? Would people be interested in presenting at/attending this? Please respond below.

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. Tom Raftery
2. Damien Mulley (Damien AT mulley.net) (Cork based)
3. Conor O'Neill(Cork based)
4. Walter Higgins(Cork based)
5. 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. Paul O Mahony Siopa Eile
17. Christian van den Bosch
18. Dillon Thomas
19. Add your Name above this line

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. Keith Bohanna dbtwang
15. Fintan Costello www.DataClean.com
16. Dermod Moore Bonhomie
17. Bernie Goldbach conjectures
18. Adrian Smith 17od
19. Paul Power http://www.peerside.com
20. Keith Gaughan, http://talideon.com/
21. Derek Organ, http://derekorgan.com
22. Louis Crowe, http://www.readpal.com
23. John Breslin http://www.johnbreslin.com/
24. Paschal Leloup developers.ie ncte scoilnet
25. Brian Kennedy http://www.discover-mobile.com
26. Eoghan Murray http://www.qatano.com/
27. Julian Ellison Tablane
28. Graham O'Rourke MOR Solutions
29. John Timmons, http://www.stalltheball.com
30. Pawel Nowak, 23words
31. Simon Mc Dermott, Attentio
32. Evert Bopp, wimaxxed wimax-eu
33. Emmet Connolly, blog.thoughtwax.com
34. Mary Gilmartin, Netrunning
35. Georgie Casey, My Blog
36. Paul O Mahony, Siopa Eile
37. Stephen Downey, Passion Development
38. Danny D
39. Pat Phelan http://blog.roam4free.ie/
40. John Henry Donovan http://www.5pieces.com
41. Brian Cleland InterTradeIreland
42. John Whelan Blog: Offportal.com Real-life: alatto
43. Diarmaid Ó Culáin: Crunchypear.com
44. James Cooley James Cooley blogs
45. Chris Chedgey headway
46. Mark Twomey, Blipverts
47. Philip Nathan, vehicle-tracking.blogspot.com
48. Siasy Collins, EuropeanIrish.com
49. Pat Rice
50. Adam Beecher
51. Ruairí Newman
52. Ter Lynch, [http://linkmap.blogspot.com]
53. Keith Clancy
54. Stephen Higgins, Waveson
55. David Copithorne, Waveson
56. Donncha O Caoimh, Automattic Inc.
57. Elly Parker, blog - ellybabes neighbours.ie
58. George Pratt, Just Me
59. Gavin Byrne, NEARfm/Media Co-op
60. Robert Synnott, Blog
61. Eugene Flynn, 54 Degrees
62. Mark O'Callaghan, IMTF Software
63. Oliver Nash,[http://www.cs.ucc.ie/helpdesk]
64. Michele Neylon, Blacknight
65. Dave Jeffery, My Journal
66. Sean Hanley
67. Tony Haddon
68. Will Letters from the idiot
69. AJ Mc Kee
70. Laurence Dusoswa
71. Dillon Thomas
72. haydn Shaughnessy [http://www.mediangler.com]
73. Marcas O'Duinn marcas
74. Add your Name above this line

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

Des Field Corbett GC Consulting Unable to make 30th

Sponsors

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

Badges

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If anyone wants to sponsor name badges for the event, I'll sort them out. Contact eoghan AT eoghanmccabe DOT com.

BeerCamp

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