There is live online feed on some of today’s barcamp at Galway.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/edgecastmedia
For info on the barcamp- check
http://barcamp.org/BarCampGalway
http://jaiku.com/channel/barcampireland
wordpress
http://barcampgalway.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/talk-streams-for-barcamp-galway/
Irish Dance Shows:
Flames of the Dance, France March and April
Magic of the Dance, 2008 Jan-Mar Germany & Switzerland
Rhythm of the Dance, 2007 Oct - Dec - Netherlands & France; 2008 Jan to mar Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland
Riverdance, 2008 Jan - Belgium
Spirit of the Dance, NL 2007 Sep to Nov Netherlands
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http://www.europeanirish.com/Music/irishdancing.html
GOOD REVIEWS / REPORTS:
Stephen Downey
http://www.stephendowney.net/blog
SPEAKER NOTES:
Keith Bohanna
http://bohanna.typepad.com/pureplay/2007/04/barcampdublin_s.html
Keith’s link above covers the topics and presentations and tips given
by Darren Barefoot, “Social media marketing, or how I learned to love the mob”.
pricing SAAS tips by Conor Halpin ( LeCayla ) Eoghan McCabe Web Usability 101: A 30-Minute Crash Course
This saves me from writing about these any further.
It seems to be well covered there. Check it out.
Fintan Palmer - Barcamp Dublin report
Kevin (yes it’s) Peyton Brief thoughts on BarCamp Dublin
Gareth Stack Barcamp Dublin has a wiki roundup and interviews
Tom Raftery
http://www.tomrafteryit.net/barcamp-dublin-was-great/
Others - some are previews:
Barcamp Dublin blog
http://www.firstpartners.net/blog/
Joe Drumgoole
Eoin O’Dell:
http://www.cearta.ie/2007/04/and-so-to-barcamp-dublin/
Tom Raftery
http://www.tomrafteryit.net/barcamp-dublin-on-saturday/
From http://www.irishblogs.ie ‘barcamp dublin’
Some more…Barcamp Dublin via Xtended
Links and rss feeds worth adding.
Not being from Dublin, at 9 o’clock on Saturday, I drove by Heustan Train station. I had checked directions and had in my mind how to get from Heuston Station to The Digital Exchange in Crane St Dublin.
There was one main street across from the Station, I go up that hill, turn left at the top, and I should find Crane St there on the right hand side.
As I approached the train station I see that the ‘hill’ is now a tram-line only for the Luas. The Day got better - within minutes Between the jigs and reels and a few Liffey bridges later I found the venue, and parking was handy at the Digital Hub itself- free for the day - a rarity I did not expect.
Barcamp Ireland3, or Barcamp Dublin, was organised and run by Dublin based Joe Drumgoole, Elly Parker, Paul Walsh, Eoghan McCabe and Paul Browne.. There may have been others also helping with everything.
Hard work, months of preparation - and like a wedding - there are large parts of the effort that can only be put in place on the day itself or the evening before.
I hope you all enjoyed the afters… and let your feet up and hair down…
From 9:15 to 10am people found their feet, a cup of coffee, and a quick browse to see where the rooms were - one boardroom like conference room - for smaller group discussions, one room with capacity for a few dozen if required, and then a large auditorium for any large forum or topic crossing business, technology and and web or social networking (blog / video/flickr) stuff really. There were a few.
A Chart-board displayed a timetable per room - split in 1 hr segments. if you wished to talk, you simply put up your post-it booking a timeslot and room.
What this meant is that from 10am to 1pm there was capacity for 9 different Talks. One could attend 3 of these, as at any one time there would also be 2 others taking place.
Praise must go to self-sacrificing Elly ‘Babes’ Parker, who greeted everyone at the door, and was still greeting people as they arrived close to lunch time.
Although I missed Elly’s talk in Waterford in January’s Barcamp http://www.barcampsoutheast.com on Dealing with Death & Divorce in today’s Digital World, I did watch her speak in Cork in September - “Getting Granny Podcasting (or Encouraging Web Usage in Non-Technical People)” http://barcamp.org/BarCampIrelandPresentations Shes’s a great interesting witty speaker - missed in Dublin due to her commitment to self-lessly ensure the day ran smoothly for everyone else.
Paul Browne manned the door & was at the greeting desk for alot of the day as well.
The speakers and topics I attended were:
How to Price SAAS (Software as a Service)- by Conor Halpin ( LeCayla LeCayla Technologies ) - I’ll elaborate on this in a seperate note later. If interested in why Conor got into a straight-jacket during his presentation - and how he got out- then follow-up by reading more on his talk later.
As this finished I managed to catch the last 15 minutes of Eoin O’Dell’s (www.cearta.ie) talk and discussion on the “Law of Blogs; Blogs of Law”. I think when I saw the title initially I believed it would be a guide of what you should and should not do in blogging.
Not exactly…
This was a presentation on the actual Law - Irish & European Law - and how it applies to the web and blogging - basically what you are and are not allowed to do and say on a blog - Read the article later on Eoin’s explanation of how liable you are if you link to another site, Privacy law, copyright, if someone leaves a contemptuous or ‘hate’ comment, or entry, in your blog… etc.
I seemed to catch the main gist of the talk - slides here, and it was fascinating - more later .
Eoin’s familiarity … - I’m trying to figure out how/ where I know him from … UCC maybe… many moons ago - or maybe somewhere else.
Darren Barefoot’s “Social media marketing, or how I learned to love the mob”. In his Canadian accent, his presentation - included some excellent tips and background on the social networking - blogging, video-sharing, photo-sharing… more later… presentation online.
Back in Cork’s Barcamp in September, Eoghan McCabe drew quite an open discussion on ‘the ethics of Search Engine Optimisation’. A very bright guy, even more evidenced by his presentation on Saturday.
In Dublin his presentation on ‘Web Usability 101: A 30-Minute Crash Course’ was like a class on making any website more user friendly, and what a user does and does not want to have to do… if you want to know what any web-user wants - read about Eoghan’s presentation.
A break for lunch at 1 gave a chance to meet with quite a few people including Will Knott , David Behan davidbehan.com/blog , Clare Dillon & Sean Foley of Microsoft, Kevin (can’t remember his surname - was it Peyton?), Peter Staunton , Stephen Downey Passion Development , and John Ward, of Cengal - who had a presentation at 2 about how starting a year ago, gave hints on how to get Enterprise Ireland funding, he learnt many lessons on pitching to the financial sector, especially with any technical product, or software or service - he gave 8 handiy tips for any start-ups pitching anything technical to a financial company. Check later and I’ll include exactly what these tips are.
For my last hour, 3 to 4pm , there was a panel discussion, chaired by one of the Barcamp Dublin’s planners Joe Drumgoole of putplace.com, with Tom Raftery , Karlin Lillington http://www.techno-culture.com/ , Sean O Sullivan of mysay.com / rococo & Darren Barefoot -addressed questions & issues such as :
How to make money from Social Networking / websites
How to Get more Users / Visitors - or whether visitor rate is important at all …
and some tips about these and other topics will be added later.
At 4 o’clock, I bid farewell to Barcamp Dublin, with a wad full of tips and advice, that I know will be beneficial - now it’s time to identify which actions to take and when…
The next barcamp Ireland is in Galway in the Autumn with an educational one in Thurles in June.
And in the meantime, all across Europe, in the next 2 months barcamps are in Frankfurt Germany, Paris France, Bazzano Italy, Turin Italy, Brussels Belgium.
Details:
Barcamp
BarCamp Ireland is an informal gathering of people from technical and business backgrounds and 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.
Check out the barcamp websites (linked throughout this article)- to see what they are about.
I attended the first Barcamp Ireland, held in Cork, back in Septemvber last year.
Some fascinating discussions, presentations and the best part is meeting / networking with others from Technology, Start ups, guys running gaming shops, freelance PR and Webdesign individuals, Venture Capitalists, people who have succeeded or failed in a project, and people speaking on certain new technologies and ideas in the marketplace- Microformats, blogging, Podcasting, search Engine optimisation SEO, AJAX, Ruby, Social networking … and all of these people sharing their own experiences,
First Barcamp Ireland - some presentations available - http://barcamp.org/BarCampIreland
Following from its success, a second Barcamp Ireland was held in Waterford in January 2007. Although I could not attend there are some great presentations available, at the Presentations Page
Barcamp Ireland 3 will be in Dublin on 21st April, and BarcampIreland 4 in Galway in September.
http://barcamp.org/BarCampIreland3 - Dublin 21/04/07
http://barcamp.org/BarCampIreland4 - Galway 8/9/07
Proposed dates
BarcampIreland5 - Cork Dec07/Jan08
BarcampIreland6 - Waterford - April/May 08
There are 2 extra versions of this also - a DrupalCamp Ireland the first held in Galway in January - discussions on community websites.
the second derivative of barcamp is Educamp- Educamp Ireland in Thurles Co.Tipperary on the 7th June - this is a cross between the barcamp and addressing the needs of Primary and Secondary school bodies - levereging the internet in education. Check out the Session Ideas http://barcamp.org/Educamp-Ireland
If you are based in Europe - there have been Barcamps in France, Denmark, UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Austria,
Upcoming barcamps are in Switzerland, Italy - details at any of the links above.
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