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 ?

All attendees, whether you have signed up already or not, please send your contact email address to barcampireland 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.

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 events 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.

Join the "backnetwork" here Official BarCampIreland backnetwork - a structured way of defining your people network and communicating with other barcampees

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" The Long Tail meets the Deviants Advantage!
2. Conor O'Neill, Talk, "Funding/Outsourcing/Microformats"
3. John Breslin, Talk, "Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities"
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 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. Tom Raftery, Talk, "CIX - Cork's next generation data centre"
12. Joe Drumgoole, Crashed and Burned - War Stories Starting Software Companies in Ireland
13. Mark Twomey, Talk, "Data Retention: Myths, madness, and missed opportunities"
14. Robert Synnott, Talk, "Web programming in Common Lisp; modern problems in a Cold War language."
15. Brian Caulfield, Trinity Venture Capital, Talk, "Understanding and accessing venture capital funding."
16. Evert Bopp. Wimax EU. Talk, "Convergence: WiFi hotzones, location based services, social networking & web based applications".
17. Elly Parker, Talk, "Getting Granny Podcasting (or Encouraging Web Usage in Non-Technical People)"
18. Sabrina Dent, Talk, "Making Money in SecondLife"
19. Simon McGarr, Talk, "Digital Rights Ireland Ltd vs Minister for Justice, Minister for Communications, Garda Commissioner, AG and Ireland: A case study."
20. Gavin Byrne, Talk, "Using WLAN to bring internet training to sheltered housing projects"
21. Stephen Downey, Talk, "AJAX, How a 'toilet cleaner' is improving website interaction"
22. Trevor Coyne, Talk, "How we built Mooble.com"
23. 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
2. Walter Higgins - sounds interesting. Would be interested in attending - not sure I could fit my javascript presentation into pecha kucha format though.

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 tomrafteryit.net
7. Ed Byrne Hosting 365
8. Joe Drumgoole joedrumgoole.com
9. Walter Higgins Sxoop Blog
10. Fergus Burns, Nooked
11. Paul Rooney enook design
12. Conor O'Neill Argolon
13. James Corbett EirePreneur
14. Tom Keane NitroSell
15. Anthony Griffin T+1
16. Eoghan McCabe eoghanmccabe.com
17. Keith Bohanna dbtwang
18. Fintan Costello www.DataClean.com
19. Dermod Moore Bonhomie
20. Bernie Goldbach conjectures
21. Adrian Smith 17od
22. Paul Power http://www.peerside.com
23. Keith Gaughan, http://talideon.com/
24. Derek Organ, http://derekorgan.com
25. Louis Crowe, http://www.readpal.com
26. John Breslin http://www.johnbreslin.com/
27. Paschal Leloup developers.ie ncte scoilnet
28. Brian Kennedy http://www.discover-mobile.com
29. Eoghan Murray http://www.qatano.com/
30. Julian Ellison Tablane
31. Graham O'Rourke MOR Solutions
32. John Timmons, http://www.stalltheball.com
33. Pawel Nowak, 23words
34. Simon Mc Dermott, Attentio
35. Evert Bopp, wimaxxed wimax-eu
36. Emmet Connolly, blog.thoughtwax.com
37. Mary Gilmartin, Netrunning
38. Georgie Casey, My Blog
39. Paul O Mahony, Siopa Eile
40. Stephen Downey, Passion Development
41. Danny D
42. John Henry Donovan http://www.5pieces.com
43. Brian Cleland InterTradeIreland
44. John Whelan Blog: Offportal.com Real-life: alatto
45. Diarmaid Ó Culáin: Crunchypear.com
46. James Cooley James Cooley blogs
47. Chris Chedgey headway
48. Mark Twomey, Blipverts
49. Philip Nathan, vehicle-tracking.blogspot.com
50. Siasy Collins, EuropeanIrish.com
51. Pat Rice
52. Adam Beecher
53. Ruairí Newman
54. Ter Lynch, http://linkmap.blogspot.com
55. Keith Clancy
56. Stephen Higgins, Waveson
57. David Copithorne, Waveson
58. Donncha O Caoimh, Automattic Inc.
59. Elly Parker, blog - ellybabes neighbours.ie
60. George Pratt, Just Me
61. Gavin Byrne, NEARfm/Media Co-op
62. Robert Synnott, Blog
63. Eugene Flynn, 54 Degrees
64. Mark O'Callaghan, IMTF Software
65. Oliver Nash, http://www.cs.ucc.ie/helpdesk
66. Michele Neylon, Blacknight
67. Dave Jeffery, My Journal
68. Tony Haddon www.frandrastic.net
69. Will Letters from the idiot
70. AJ Mc Kee
71. Laurence Dusoswa
72. Dillon Thomas
73. haydn Shaughnessy http://www.mediangler.com
74. Marcas O'Duinn marcas
75. Jan Blanchard touristr
76. Tom Morris Blog
77. Damien BLake Website
78. Laura Keeley My Flickr Photo Stream
79. Amy Landers
80. Wannita Phanchana My Flickr Photo Stream
81. Stephen Thornton
82. Yee Ling Chan My Flickr Photo Stream
83. Sabrina Dent
84. Simon McGarr Work Website Personal Website
85. Trevor Coyne Mooble.com
86. Katie Conway My Photos
87. Brian Lanigan My Flickr Photos
88. Michelle Horgan
89. Olushola Adeleke
90. Ian O'Donnell
91. Clare Conde
92. G Mullins
93. Robert Harris
94. Peter Coppinger aka Topper CFTopper.com Digital Crew
95. C J Kenneth Tan OptimaNumerics
96. Eugene Heaney
97. Ferruccio Egidio DeCare Systems Ireland
98. Gráinne O' Connell
99. Gordon Murray eWrite
100. Daren Seagrave FAI Finance Corporation
101. Patrick O'Connor Patchcom Services / Synchronicity
102. Gavin Sheridan Public Inquiry Gavin's Blog (Hiatus!)
103. Aileen Cussen Enterprise Ireland
104. Michael Bambury Enterprise Ireland
105. Eamonn O'Flaherty
106. Paul Watson TSSG
107. Brian Caulfield Trinity Venture Capital
108. Seán Griffin Qumas
109. Seamus D'Arcy
110. Rory Condon
111. Craig Powell
112. John Handelaar
113. Stephen Gallagher
114. Cormac Mc Carthy Digital Crew
115. Add your Name to the bottom of the list

All attendees, whether you have signed up already or not, please send your contact email address to barcampireland at gmail dot com. Thanks.

Clare Dillon Microsoft

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)

Sean Hanley Unable to make 30th

Kevin Peyton The Health Tech Blog Cannot Attend. Looking forward to the podcasts though!

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