We’ll be posting a page later today with all of the session topics suggested so far by people. However there is one aspect which we need to make clear. BarCamp is a non-commercial unconference and, as such, straight company or product pitches are not appropriate.
We don’t want to sound negative about this but it’s important. [...]

Will Knott is doing a session on Twitter at BarCamp.

To help with this, he’d really appreciate it if you could fill out a very simple 4 question survey.

Rather than have everyone scatter to the four winds after BarCamp we’ve decided to have a sit-down meal followed by some drinks. I’ve heard many good things about the Eastern Tandoori over the years so I’d like to suggest that. Please let us know in the comments if you’d like to attend. Once we know [...]

Pat Phelan and Alexia Golez are organizing a pre-Barcamp Cork dinner and they would love you to come along. It’s on in Bangkok93 (A Taste Of Thailand) on Friday 31st of October at 8pm.
Numbers are limited to 25 so please leave your name over in his blog comments to confirm you are coming. Budget for [...]

In keeping with our approach of avoiding too much pre-structuring of the day, we are not going to ask people to formally announce session titles etc. However we do want to get some idea of the areas people want to [a] hear about and [b] talk about. If the day works well, those two things [...]

I’m not exaggerating when I say I think it’s the best BarCamp logo I’ve ever seen! John Henry Donovan has done a perfect mash-up of the classic logo with the outline of Cork. Thanks John Henry, looking forward to meeting you in Cork.

The Irish Webmaster Forum is having a social meetup in Cork the night before BarCamp. If you are local or you are coming down on Friday evening, you’ll be guaranteed an interesting and fun night. All details over on the discussion board.

We’re genuinely blown away that Donncha, Toni, Matt and the guys n gals in Automattic are sponsoring BarCamp Cork II. You’ll probably know them better as the people behind Wordpress, Wordpress.com, Wordpress MU and Akismet.
This blog and thousands of other Irish ones, run on the software created by these guys and are protected from spam [...]

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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 [...]