We’d like to run a fun competition which a few people can win, we’ll be giving away some great free techie stuff. We’d like if the competition promoted the sponsors too since they helped make Barcamp happen.

Any fun ideas for a competition?

Just click the image to join in.

Click to join in online

Check out Randy’s collection of toys on his blog, since he can’t carry them all on the day, let him know if you’d like to see any of them specifically.

Have you any computer hardware in the attic or garage that you could bring along?

Lady Barcampers – the Girl Geek Dinner is happening the night before Barcamp Cork III.

Table booked for 8 and there’s a bar next door..

Head over to the official Girl Geek Dinner website and leave a comment if you can attend.

We have 3 large rooms booked for the day for concurrent talks with the option of splitting one of the rooms into two medium sized rooms.

There is a tiny little room too, off one of main rooms which might be good for smaller talks or demos.
When the talks have wrapped up for the afternoon we can all wander across the hall to the bar for a couple of drinks and watch the match.

30 bed rooms have been put aside for those wishing to book a room to stay over on the night with rates of €75 – €85 per room. Don’t forget to mention ‘Barcamp’ if you are contacting the Hotel.

Cork International Airport Hotel, Cork Airport, Cork, Ireland
Tel: +353 21 454 9800 or email reception@corkairporthotel.com

The venue is Cork International Airport Hotel.

The Date is Saturday November the 14th 2009. (CorkMeet2009 is running the preceeding few days, 11th to 13th)

Watch this space for updates and the @BarCampCork Twitter account too.

Blacknight have covered the cost of hosting this site for another year, Thank you Blacknight.

Meet the organisers of this years Barcamp:

From left to right, Ciara Feely, Gordon Murray and Ciara Crossan. Talk to either one of us if you’d like to speak at Barcamp or help Sponsor.

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. Thank you all (110+ of you) for coming and making it the best BarCamp yet.
• Damien Mulley, Dan Barry, Kay Wright. This trio made the venue and much more happen. Kay went far far beyond the call of duty all day. Every BarCamp needs a Kay.
• Damien. Again. He makes things happen. Nuff said. 
• All of the sponsors. In these tough times, it is impressive to see local companies supporting events like BarCamp. Behind companies/organisations are people. Those people include Pat Phelan, Michele Neylon, Donncha O’Caoimh, Matt Mullenweg, Dan Barry, Kay Wright, John Henry Donovan and Jack Donaghy
• Pat Phelan. Again. With good reason. Pat not only sponsored lunch, he also gave over his offices for two talks, gave a talk, provided equipment and most of all, provided enormous moral support all day.
• John Henry Donovan. Again. Still the best BarCamp logo ever. And for doing the sign-up system too
• Every person who got the word out and there are lots of you. At least 50% of the faces at BarCamp were new and that was down to you
• Phoebe Bright and Bartosz Ptaszynski for doing all the heavy lifting on the webapp. There are still more lessons to be learned there and hopefully one of them will do a follow-up post here.
• Donogh and Odette did a super job interviewing people. We’ll see the videos in the coming days.

At the more grainy end of things, I’m sure the usual suspects (like me) will also be QIkking, Ustreaming and Flixwagoning on their phones. If you record anything or take any pics, let us know about them so we can link over afterwards.