OSSBARCAMP – 28th March 2009
Posted in events on 11/20/2008 04:11 pm by Laura CzajkowskiSo I’ve decided to run another event! I was going through some online reading and working on Ubuntu-ie stuff and the topics came up of open source events and the lack of them here in Ireland. It got me thinking, why wasn’t there any, who would organise them, where would they be, and I pondered some more and then went about seeing how I could organise one.
So let me introduce you to ossbarcamp, it will take place here in Dublin, I’m just in the final process of firming up the venue. You are being given advance notice now, Saturday 28th March 2009 in Dublin. Put that in your diary folks!
For those that are not familiar with a barcamp, from my experience it is a less formal type of a conference, where the participants set the talks and tone of the event. In particular I like the fact that in many cases, before hand people suggest talks they would like to hear about, and this helps people either reseach a given topic or they go off and look into it and then present at the event.
All attendees are encouraged to present or facilitate a session. Everyone is also asked to share information and experiences of the event, both live and after the fact, via public web channels including (but not limited to) blogging, photo sharing, twittering, and IRC
Myself and Jamie will be working on putting more information on the site as soon as we have more details. A place for you to sign up for a talk, register your interest in hearing a topic in the hopes someone reads it, yells yes I know about that and does a talk on it for you and in general your thoughts on an oss themed barcamp.
If you have any other thoughts, leave a comment, follow us on twitter, or drop me a email
11/20/2008 at 4:17 pm
Very very glad to see this coming up! We’ll be glad to help and be present with echolibre. Count me in as a speaker right away
11/20/2008 at 4:51 pm
Lets make it happen, I would love to see something like this in Ireland and take shape year by year.
Well done to Laura & Jamie!
11/21/2008 at 12:35 pm
Great news Laura.
Date’s marked in my calendar. Looking forward to this event.
Laura & Jamie, keep up the good work!
11/24/2008 at 5:55 pm
Greet stuff…plenty of notice to get the ball rolling..
12/10/2008 at 12:54 pm
Hi Laura,
Thanks for taking this on!
I don’t mean to be negative–I love BarCamps–but it’s a pity there’s a clash with /Scotland on Rails/. I know it’s across the water, but I’d like to attend that event too.
(I know that organising events is difficult and there will always be clashes.)
I found this post via Declan McGrath’s blog–after meeting him last night at “Ruby Ireland”.
I met you months ago at “TechLudd”.
Ciao,
Kevin.
12/10/2008 at 2:59 pm
Kevin, yes it is unfortunately, but there is never going to be a date that is going to please everyone. The most one can hope for is that both events run well and are active. Keep an eye on ossbarcamp.com and spead the word
03/08/2009 at 9:49 pm
How about a session on how to define an OPEN SOURCE Policy? or Best practice in Governing Open Source? Or Commercial models for Open Source? IPMLOGIC can provide expertise in all these areas and are more than happy to host an info session at the conference.