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. €115 p/night in Isaac's hotel here
5. Other Accomodation 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:

Don't forget to add your name to the attendee list too!

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. Elly Parker, Talk, "Getting Granny Podcasting (or Encouraging Web Usage in Non-Technical People)"
17. Sabrina Dent, Talk, "Making Money in SecondLife"
18. Simon McGarr, Talk, "Digital Rights Ireland Ltd vs Minister for Justice, Minister for Communications, Garda Commissioner, AG and Ireland: A case study."
19. Gavin Byrne, Talk, "Using WLAN to bring internet training to sheltered housing projects"
20. 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.

Pecha Kucha Session

1. Keith Bohanna http://keith.bohanna.com - sounds good - allows a skim through the chosen topic and then straight to Q&A where the stuff relevant to the audience can be dug into. Nice one Emmet - put me down to speak at that

Planners, Volunteers and Attendees

Planners and Volunteers, don't forget to add your name to the attendee list too!

• All attendees, please send your contact email address to barcampireland at gmail dot com

• All attendees, please send your contact email address to barcampireland at gmail dot com

1. Alan O'Rourke Spoiltchild Design
2. Piaras Kelly Piaras Kelly PR
3. Bernard Tyers RunningWithBulls
4. Christian van den Bosch
5. Damien Mulley mulley.net
6. Tom Raftery
7. EdByrne
8. Joe Drumgoole
9. Walter Higgins
10. Fergus Burns, http://blog.nooked.com
11. Kenneth Tan OptimaNumerics
12. Paul Rooney http://www.enookdesign.com
13. Conor O'Neill Argolon
14. James Corbett EirePreneur
15. Clare Dillon Microsoft
16. Tom Keane NitroSell
17. Kevin Peyton The Health Tech Blog
18. Anthony Griffin T+1
19. Eoghan McCabe eoghanmccabe.com
20. Keith Bohanna dbtwang
21. Fintan Costello www.DataClean.com
22. Dermod Moore Bonhomie
23. Bernie Goldbach conjectures
24. Adrian Smith 17od
25. Paul Power http://www.peerside.com
26. Keith Gaughan, http://talideon.com/
27. Derek Organ, http://derekorgan.com
28. Louis Crowe, http://www.readpal.com
29. John Breslin http://www.johnbreslin.com/
30. Paschal Leloup developers.ie ncte scoilnet
31. Brian Kennedy http://www.discover-mobile.com
32. Eoghan Murray http://www.qatano.com/
33. Julian Ellison Tablane
34. Graham O'Rourke MOR Solutions
35. John Timmons, http://www.stalltheball.com
36. Pawel Nowak, 23words
37. Simon Mc Dermott, Attentio
38. Evert Bopp, wimaxxed wimax-eu
39. Emmet Connolly, blog.thoughtwax.com
40. Mary Gilmartin, Netrunning
41. Georgie Casey, My Blog
42. Paul O Mahony, Siopa Eile
43. Stephen Downey, Passion Development
44. Danny D
45. John Henry Donovan http://www.5pieces.com
46. Brian Cleland InterTradeIreland
47. John Whelan Blog: Offportal.com Real-life: alatto
48. Diarmaid Ó Culáin: Crunchypear.com
49. James Cooley James Cooley blogs
50. Chris Chedgey headway
51. Mark Twomey, Blipverts
52. Philip Nathan, vehicle-tracking.blogspot.com
53. Siasy Collins, EuropeanIrish.com
54. Pat Rice
55. Adam Beecher
56. Ruairí Newman
57. Ter Lynch, http://linkmap.blogspot.com
58. Keith Clancy
59. Stephen Higgins, Waveson
60. David Copithorne, Waveson
61. Donncha O Caoimh, Automattic Inc.
62. Elly Parker, blog - ellybabes neighbours.ie
63. George Pratt, Just Me
64. Gavin Byrne, NEARfm/Media Co-op
65. Robert Synnott, Blog
66. Eugene Flynn, 54 Degrees
67. Mark O'Callaghan, IMTF Software
68. Oliver Nash, http://www.cs.ucc.ie/helpdesk
69. Michele Neylon, Blacknight
70. Dave Jeffery, My Journal
71. Sean Hanley
72. Tony Haddon www.frandrastic.net
73. Will Letters from the idiot
74. AJ Mc Kee
75. Laurence Dusoswa
76. Dillon Thomas
77. haydn Shaughnessy http://www.mediangler.com
78. Marcas O'Duinn marcas
79. Jan Blanchard touristr
80. Tom Morris Blog
81. Damien BLake Website
82. Laura Keeley My Flickr Photo Stream
83. Amy Landers
84. Wannita Phanchana My Flickr Photo Stream
85. Stephen Thornton
86. Yee Ling Chan My Flickr Photo Stream
87. Sabrina Dent
88. Simon McGarr Work Website Personal Website
89. Trevor Coyne Mooble.com
90. Katie Conway My Photos
91. Brian Lanigan My Flickr Photos
92. Michelle Horgan
93. Olushola Adeleke
94. Ian O'Donnell
95. Clare Conde
96. Peter Coppinger aka Topper CFTopper.com Digital Crew
97. C J Kenneth Tan Optima Numerics
98. Add your Name to the list

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

-Pat Phelan http://blog.roam4free.ie/- (have to travel to USA so wont make it)

Sponsors

1. Webworks
2. Howard Holdings
3. Qumas
4. Roam4Free.ie
5. Heineken
6. Bubble Brothers
7. Trinity Venture Capital
8. Hosting365
9. Sigmar Recruitment
10. Madgex
11. Blacknight Solutions
12. C&C Group
13. I would like to Sponsor Barcamp...

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BeerCamp

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