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. 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.
Bart has made the code-drop from Saturday available. He’ll do another drop later this week with a better landing page etc.
It requires:
- Python 2.5
- Django 1.0
- sqlite3
- pysqlite3
Right now you can either access the http://localhost:8000/events/ or the http://localhost:8000/admin/ pages to play around.
login: admin
pass: barcamp
Code archive file: green.zip
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.
There is no parking in the Webworks building. However the City Hall Cark Park is facing the front door right across Eglinton Street. It’s a bit pricey but no worse than any of the others from what I can see. Cheapest option is to park in the Railway Station carpark for €6 per day. It’s maybe a 10-15 min walk.
Push-pin B below is at entrance to both Webworks and the City Hall Car Park. Push-pin A is where the big railway carpark is located.
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.
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.
30 Oct, 2008
Posted by: adventsparky In: Logistics
After a bit of tooing and froing, we’ve decided to have no official place for food after BarCamp, it’s just too awkward to arrange for that many people. There are tons of good places to eat in the city centre and I’m sure groups of you can organise yourselves.
However, the final destination of the evening will be The Bierhaus on Pope’s Quay. The route is as follows:
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