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

Carpool?

If anyone is driving to Cork and wants to carpool please list below Where you are driving from, how many seats you have available and how you can be contacted..

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If you need a lift please list where you need to be picked up and a contact method:

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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. 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. Stephen Downey, Talk, "AJAX, How a 'toilet cleaner' is improving website interaction"
21. Trevor Coyne, Talk, "How we built Mooble.com"
22. Add your Name

Robert Synnott, Talk, "Web programming in Common Lisp; modern problems in a Cold War language."

Hear:

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

1. Fergus Burns, Hear, Microformats
2. James Corbett, Hear, Angel Investor networks and visibility
3. Tom Keane, Hear, opportunities with live.com
4. Graham O'Rourke, Hear, "Mobile Web .. standards convergence of free-for-all?"
5. Mary Gilmartin, Hear, The industry in Ireland,
6. 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. Louis Crowe, http://www.readpal.com
25. John Breslin http://www.johnbreslin.com/
26. Paschal Leloup developers.ie ncte scoilnet
27. Brian Kennedy http://www.discover-mobile.com
28. Eoghan Murray http://www.qatano.com/
29. Julian Ellison Tablane
30. Graham O'Rourke MOR Solutions
31. John Timmons, http://www.stalltheball.com
32. Pawel Nowak, 23words
33. Simon Mc Dermott, Attentio
34. Evert Bopp, wimaxxed wimax-eu
35. Emmet Connolly, blog.thoughtwax.com
36. Mary Gilmartin, Netrunning
37. Georgie Casey, My Blog
38. Paul O Mahony, Siopa Eile
39. Stephen Downey, Passion Development
40. Danny D
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. Ter Lynch, http://linkmap.blogspot.com
54. Keith Clancy
55. Stephen Higgins, Waveson
56. David Copithorne, Waveson
57. Donncha O Caoimh, Automattic Inc.
58. Elly Parker, blog - ellybabes neighbours.ie
59. George Pratt, Just Me
60. Gavin Byrne, NEARfm/Media Co-op
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. Tony Haddon www.frandrastic.net
67. Will Letters from the idiot
68. AJ Mc Kee
69. Laurence Dusoswa
70. Dillon Thomas
71. haydn Shaughnessy http://www.mediangler.com
72. Marcas O'Duinn marcas
73. Jan Blanchard touristr
74. Tom Morris Blog
75. Damien BLake Website
76. Laura Keeley My Flickr Photo Stream
77. Amy Landers
78. Wannita Phanchana My Flickr Photo Stream
79. Stephen Thornton
80. Yee Ling Chan My Flickr Photo Stream
81. Sabrina Dent
82. Simon McGarr Work Website Personal Website
83. Trevor Coyne Mooble.com
84. Katie Conway My Photos
85. Brian Lanigan My Flickr Photos
86. Michelle Horgan
87. Olushola Adeleke
88. Ian O'Donnell
89. Clare Conde
90. G Mullins
91. Robert Harris
92. Peter Coppinger aka Topper CFTopper.com Digital Crew
93. C J Kenneth Tan OptimaNumerics
94. Eugene Heaney
95. Ferruccio Egidio DeCare Systems Ireland
96. Gráinne O' Connell
97. Gordon Murray eWrite
98. Daren Seagrave FAI Finance Corporation
99. Patrick O'Connor Patchcom Services / Synchronicity
100. Gavin Sheridan Public Inquiry Gavin's Blog (Hiatus!)
101. Aileen Cussen Enterprise Ireland
102. Michael Bambury Enterprise Ireland
103. Eamonn O'Flaherty
104. Paul Watson TSSG
105. Brian Caulfield Trinity Venture Capital
106. Seán Griffin Qumas
107. Seamus D'Arcy
108. Rory Condon
109. Craig Powell
110. John Handelaar
111. Stephen Gallagher
112. Cormac Mc Carthy Digital Crew
113. Stephen Crowley UCC Networking Society
114. 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!

-Derek Organ, http://derekorgan.com- Can't make it down in time I'm sorry to say.

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