This post should have been written last weekend so apologies for the slowness.
There are a bunch of people to thank for the success of BarCamp. It genuinely couldn’t have happened without them.

YOU! BarCamp is about everyone contributing in some way. The speakers did an awesome job and everyone else asked, discussed, argued and queried brilliantly. [...]

Several members of an obscure Californian cult with a svengali known only as Black Turtleneck left some of their magic charms behind at BarCamp yesterday. If they are yours, just email me directly on conor AT loudervoice DOT com.

Clodagh Kelly is going surfing on Sunday morning. Chat to her at BarCamp if you are interested in taking part. It looks like it’ll be at Garrettstown.

Cork based TV and Video production company StormVids will be scooting and shooting throughout the day.
Look out for their vids a few days later, all set to embed in your blogs and put on Facebook. I had a great chat with them last week and it’ll be fantastic to see some high-quality footage of BarCamp.
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Phil O’Kane has kindly offered to do a photo session for those attending on Saturday. Damien has some thoughts.

After the feedback we’ve received on the “Build a Webapp in a Day” proposal along with some discussions last Friday, we’ve decided to re-position things slightly.
The idea now is that the webapp will be the tangible output from a very extended training session in the Django web framework given by Bartosz Ptaszynski. The plan therefore is [...]

This was sent to all major press outlets this afternoon:
For Immediate Release

Cork, October 28th 2008
BarCamp Social and Technology conference returns to Cork on Nov 1st
The Barcamp conference is a free, open and informal conference where the attendees and the speakers are one and the same and, as a group, they choose the topics [...]

A few of us have been bouncing around the idea of building a web application in one day for the past few months. BarCamp seems like the ideal opportunity to try this. From the sign-up comments, it looks like plenty of people are interested in taking part. Unlike the impromptu style of the rest of [...]

Bartosz Ptaszynski will be running a tutorial session on the Python Web Framework Django. It is aimed at anyone who wants to get a feel for what these frameworks are all about and how they can help you. One group in particular who might benefit are web designers who want some insight into the development [...]

We’ve collected all the session/talk ideas received so far and put them on their own page. A lot of people have indicated during sign-up that they want to talk but haven’t given a topic yet. We’ll update the page as we receive the details from them.
We’ll have separate more detailed posts on a couple of [...]