It was a great day and there were some really interesting talks and discussions that took place. It’s great to see that many enthusiasts here in Ireland in one place taking part in the day.

We had two streams going on all day and for most of the day we had a round table discussion going on at all times followed by lightning talks which lead to new ideas being show cased and introducing new projects that are being set up.

Our first time running a programming competition was a great success and a lot of fun for those who took part in the event. The prizes were sponsored by Canonical and Vishal Vasta who gave 2 tickets for PyCon Ireland. Thank you to all those who took part.

A big thank you to IBM for hosting the day as it was a great location and without them there would have been no barcamp. Thanks also to Blacknight Solutions for sponsoring the refreshments after the event.

Any of the speakers who want to share their slides just let me know and I’ll add them to THIS post.
Finally, we hope to run a 2 day OSSBarcamp in September on the 25 &26 so keep the date free
Photos of the day

Just a final reminder now with a few days left to go

VENUE:

IBM

24-32

Pembroke Road

Ballsbridge Dublin4

If you would like to participate at the Programming competition please arrive at 9:30 to get the information needed.

Talks start at 10am – we have two streams full, however we have a free room where people can just sign up and do talks if they want – in keeping with a barcamp theme.

POST EVENT NIBBLES

Landsdowne Hotel – which is directly across the road from IBM so you can’t get lost.

Walking to venue from Heuston Station

Driving from Heuston Station to venue

Alternatively take the dart to Landsdowne dart station

With this being the third OSSBarcamp and in it’s second year there are a lot more hands needed and also being offered. I thought it wise to introduce you to the team behind the event.

Andrea Magnorsky- Many of you know her from Alt.net and Girl Geek dinners, she’s going to be looking after the programming competition on the day.

Tom Salmon- Is involved in the Ubuntu-ie LoCo organising events and will be looking after the wifi for the event as well as the lightning talks.

Rory McCann- Is the point of contact /Team Leader for the Ubuntu-ie LoCo and shall be running the new BOF sessions during the day.

Patrick O’Connor – Involved in Halo labs and Synchronicity he’s handing the Marketing and press releases of the event.

I can’t do it without the help of these folks as it’s gotten bigger and better so Thanks to them for coming on board.

We also have two new sponsors this year. Our new location is being kindly sponsored by IBM here in Ireland and it’s great to see companies who promote Open Source getting behind such an event.

Blacknight Solutions are coming on board also sponsoring the after party at the Landsdowne Hotel Bar. So don’t run away after the great day and come to the party afterwards for some light refreshments.

As with previous OSSBarcamps we’re sticking with the same format of having a timetabled event.  A blank timetable has been added and everyone is welcome to add a talk to it. Add your named and talk to a time that suits you.  You can either log in by using OpenID or if you have a problem mail me and I can add it for you. We have two streams at present and we hope to fill these, if uptake is more we may consider adding a 3rd stream.

Housekeeping

Talk are 40 minutes in length with a 5 minute break in between. How ever way you want to break your talk up is up to you.

There are 8 slots available for the lightning talks, these are 15 minutes long and with a 5 minute break to set up and change over.

BOFS – Birds of Feather sessions are something new this time we thought we  thought we’d introduce. A BOF session is one hour long and we’d love to see user groups ‘book’ a session. At present we’re contact user groups to see if they’d be interested in this, if you are pop in to #ossbarcamp on irc.freenode.net , send us a message on twitter or leave a comment on here.