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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

We’ve had a lot of great *Camps in Ireland since the first BarCamp Cork back in 2006. We’ve learned lots, become friends with many people we’ve met there and hopefully shared what knowledge we have.
However one discussion topic that has bubbled up regularly in between the Irish BarCamps has been the very structured format of [...]

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 [...]