As many of you know, the first BarCamp in Ireland was held wayyyy back in September 2006 in Cork. It is still remembered as a wonderful day and I met many of the people I now know well for the first time there. Since that event in Webworks there have been further ones in Waterford, Dublin, Galway, Belfast, Kilkenny and Limerick.
Recently it was suggested to me that we have another one in Cork in January. I lobbed the idea out at an OpenCoffee to discover that there was tons of pent-up demand for a BarCamp and that January was too far away.
A further conversation with John Handelaar at the hugely successful and very barcampy OpenCoffeeClub BBQ got me all jizzed up about having one sooner too.
The next BarCamp is PodCamp II in Kilkenny on September 27th so I’d like to propose the next Cork one for the November timeframe. Sufficiently long after PodCamp but not too close to Christmas.
Please use the PollDaddy poll below to indicate levels of interest and, if it is there, I’m sure we can arrange something down here
UPDATE: I can’t see how to edit a poll after it is published but one great suggestion has been made, which is to offer “Any Saturday in November” as an option. If that’s what you’d prefer, just enter it in “Other”
Just got a note from Joe Johnson to tell us that the IETF, the guys who brought you IP, Gopher, FTP and what’s that other one, ah yes HTTP, are meeting in Citywest in Dublin from 27th July to 1st August.
There are over 1000 people registered with but so far only about 20 from Ireland. If you want to hear how the plumbing of the internet is going to evolve, then you need to be there.
We’ve just heard that we’ll have several international heavy hitters in tech finance visiting Ireland in Aug/Sep with a view to meeting with lots of start-ups and hearing about what’s happening here.
The details are still TBD and we’ll keep you posted with progress. This is a fantastic opportunity for web2ireland companies and you’d better start tuning your pitches now!
The Being-Digital conference is on in London on June 10th. They are looking for 30 start-ups to present to a audience of 250 VC’s, entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, CEOs of the internet businesses and Internet media/press.
There will be 7 core discussion themes in the main auditorium - Search, Advertising, Identity, Social, Location, Retail and Content - and a dedicated ‘Demo room’ in which the 30 selected companies will demo their services and products to delegates throughout the day.
Demo Tickets are normally £895 but they are offering them for £500 which includes:
1 stand in the Demo room - this will be a dedicated to you all day
1 x full delegate ticket (for the main auditorium)
1 x demo room ticket (for a second person to attend)
1 x 1 minute pitch to audience of 200+ on the main stage following the speaker/panel session most relevant to your company (eg: social, search, advertising etc.)
Your 1min pitch will be filmed and the video will be on their website, along with your details
Evening networking reception
There is also a competition running for best one minute demo pitch as voted for by delegates on the day - prize includes hardware, software and consultancy time
Whilst £500 may seem like a lot, it looks like reasonable value to me compared to lots of other conferences. It is also highly targetted rather than just being a general “web conf”. And with DEMO costing $18000……
And I’ve just realised that PutPlace are already signed-up!
Those fab people at TechWeb Networks have come up trumps for us again and have given us two free tickets for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston from June 9th to 12th.
Let’s keep this one simple. Either post your Enterprise 2.0 elevator pitch as a comment here or mail it to web2ireland DOT editor AT gmail DOT com. The pitch can be anything from the germ of an idea to an existing revenue generating business. The two best ones get the tickets. The deadline is midnight BST on Friday 16th. We also have a discount code for anyone who still wants to attend but misses out on the free tickets. Feel free to mail us for that code from now on.
Given EI’s love of all things Enterprisey, you should definitely request market research assistance from your DA if you are thinking of going.
OK, I know this is a bit last minute but the lovely Liliana who provided us with all those free Web2Expo tickets just contacted me to tell me about Enterprise 2.0 in Boston in June.
They have something called the Launch Pad program which is designed to give start ups a platform to launch new products and services.
Interested companies are being asked to submit a one minute video pitch. These video pitches are posted to the Launch Pad forum where readers will choose who they want to see live at the event. After a few rounds of voting, the final four get to present in front of a live audience in Boston in June, where the winner will be chosen by the audience. The winner of the Launch Pad gets a free booth on the show floor of the 2009 Enterprise 2.0 Conference.
The catch? The deadline for submissions is today! So get pitching now. All that UStream, Qik and Seesmic practice can now be put to good use
Like Web2Expo, we’ll probably have some freebies and discounts for those who just wish to attend. My guess is that Enterprise Ireland may also lend a hand to those who are going.
3Dcamp, the next in a series of themed Barcamps to hit Ireland, takes place at the University of Limerick on Saturday May 24th 2008. The venue is the Engineering Research Building between 10-6pm. This themed Barcamp will focus on virtual worlds (Second Life, the Metaverse), mirror worlds (Google Earth and Virtual Earth), mapping mashups, GPS, Location Based Services (LBSs), haptics (eg. Wiimote hacks), 3D modelling (Blender, Sketchup) and all things 3D. Essentially the internet beyond the 2D browser.
Registration is now open, as are speaking slots. As is the spirit of Barcamp please consider participating, if not as a speaker then in any way you can. Remember Barcamp is free and open to all. We look forward to seeing you on the day.
I’m very pleased to see that it@cork have arranged for Amazon Web Services Evangelist Mike Culver to talk in Cork on April 1st. There appears to be a distinct uptick in the use of EC2 and S3 here in Ireland and I’m interested to see what’s coming on the roadmap.
The title of his talk is “What’s possible in a post Web 2.0 World?” and will cover Amazon’s cloud and utility computing initiatives with at least one demo. I wonder if Sxoop/Pixenate or other AWS users in the region like to get involved in the session?
The venue is the Kingsley Hotel in Cork from 4 – 6pm on Tuesday April 1st.
The fee is €30 per person for members. If you book a group of 4, you get a 5th place free. Please register on the it@cork site.
18th of July 2008 by Conor O'Neill
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