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Kids at BarCamp

conor — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:07:10 +0000

We have at least one person coming on November 1st who will have a child in tow. We want to facilitate this in a way that works best for everyone. Would love to get some ideas here. Obviously babies are no problem at all and older ones can take care of themselves but how best to deal with other ages? I’m happy to bring game consoles etc and put them somewhere they can hang out. Thoughts?

Registration Form is now live

conor — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:42:59 +0000

Add your details, tell us how you are going to make BarCamp Cork II the best event you’ve ever attended and let us know what we can do to make it even better over the next 4 weeks.

What we need

conor — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:30:07 +0000

We’re aiming for BarCamp-lite this time around. A minimum of fuss and bother around irrelevant contextual stuff and a maximum focus on making a kick-ass day that will be remembered. Having said that, we do need help with a bunch of things. If you can help with these in any way, please contact us at barcampcork AT gmail DOT com:

Contributors – See the Manifesto post. A sign-up form will go up this week so you can register your interest in attending and giving some indication of how you would like to contribute on the day.
General Sponsorship – The bulk of this is for refreshments and lunch but also things like flipcharts and equipment hire if we don’t manage to beg/borrow/steal it. All sponsors will be gratefully acknowledged here and on the day.
Specific Sponsors. So far we have:
- EI/Howard Holdings providing the venue/wifi
- Blacknight hosting the blog
- We will also have some equipment/tool sponsors for the practical sessions
- Possibly other web-related sponsors for the webapp development
- Hotel/B&B sponsors providing discount rates to attendees would be appreciated
Name badges – what do you all think? Overkill? Handwritten ones on the day sufficient?
Projectors – Preferably 3+
Audio – Mics and loudspeakers. This is very necessary if we decide to use the open coffee area again. Cordless mics would be even better so they can be handed around.
A logo – Anyone up for doing the BarCamp Cork II logo based on the standard approach?
Developers/Designers – We’ll do a post on the “build a webapp in a day” idea very soon. If you want to take part in this, we definitely want you involved well ahead of time
What really obvious things are we forgetting?
Coverage – We only have four weeks so we need to get the message out locally, nationally and Europe-wide too. Hopefully we’ll get some people over from the UK like we did the first time around. Blog it, tweet it, email it, write about it in the newspaper. Do it.

BarCamp Cork II is confirmed

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:25:56 +0000

We have a date: November 1st 2008

We have a venue: Webworks, Eglinton Street, Cork

We have a blog.

We have 4 weeks.

For the next few days, we’ll post some thoughts on some of the things we’d like to achieve with this BarCamp. The focus is on trying new ideas and trying to put the Un back in Unconference.

The venue/wireless is being kindly provided by EI/IDA/Howard Holdings. The blog is kindly hosted by Blacknight Solutions.