Barcamp SouthEast
The first Barcamp in Cork was really enjoyable - and a great learning and social day. Myself and Tom Corcoran (who manages the WIT Research and Innovation Centre in Waterford) had a discussion recently about the idea of a mini-barcamp for the South East.
Barcamp is a term for a gathering of people - businesses and techies - where the talks are given by the attendees and not by "experts". It facilitates attendees learning from their peers and getting to know more about the various start-ups and established businesses by listening to short talks/presentations and taking part in discussions afterwards. Each of us have valuable skill sets, experiences and learnings that sometimes we take for granted - but that are of interest to others.
Tom can make available the facilities of the WIT centre in Carriganore - a superb building situated on its own campus. There would certainly be attendees from the various businesses and organisations situation in the Centre including the TSSG group who do research work in the communications software sector.
There is a wiki page at https://barcamp.pbwiki.com/Barcamp%20Ireland%20-%20SouthEast
If you are interested in this and would like to attend, help, present please either leave a comment here or go to the page above. There is no current date set - except for early 2007 I guess
keith
I'll be there.
Posted by: walter | November 17, 2006 at 17:37
Nice one :-)
And the challenge for me - to get you to talk about business models instead of the "other stuff"!
keith
Posted by: keith bohanna | November 17, 2006 at 20:34
I'm looking forward to it already, haven't been to the sunny south east in a while now.
Yes Keith, let's ensure Walter talks about the business side of things this time around... any maybe I'll do a presentation on AJAX ;-)
Posted by: James Corbett | November 17, 2006 at 20:44
Count me in!
Posted by: Conor O'Neill | November 18, 2006 at 11:53
Can you pick a tag for us all to use? BarCampIrelandSouthEast ? BarCampIrlSE ?
Oh, and if you want a Backnetwork like the first one, I can put you in touch with Glenn in Madgex.
Posted by: Conor O'Neill | November 18, 2006 at 11:59
yep - gotta do the tag thing - BarCampIrelandSouthEast - it's long but spellable :-)
backnetwork - let us ruminate on that one thanks Conor:-) If it is like BC one then most people will spend most of their time either face to face or scrambling around from session to session.
keith
Posted by: keith bohanna | November 18, 2006 at 12:09
It would be great if it was held in a more central part of Waterford ((ie the city) where people can get to on foot or public transport) such as WIT itself (which has a bar from what I remember :) ).
Posted by: John McCormac | November 19, 2006 at 14:56
Lets make sure we have lifts organised John. I know what you mean about accessibility - however we have the venue already donated and it is well kitted out and looks the job. Having said that I have not been in it yet - looking forward to that tomorrow.
keith
Posted by: keith bohanna | November 19, 2006 at 15:35
Yep Keith,
I remember the hassle of trying to find the place a few years ago - backroads and confusion for half an hour. It is supposed to be a great place now.
Regards...jmcc
Posted by: John McCormac | November 19, 2006 at 17:58