So I’ve decided to run another event! I was going through some online reading and working on Ubuntu-ie stuff and the topics came up of open source events and the lack of them here in Ireland. It got me thinking, why wasn’t there any, who would organise them, where would they be, and I pondered some more and then went about seeing how I could organise one.

So let me introduce you to ossbarcamp, it will take place here in Dublin, I’m just in the final process of firming up the venue. You are being given advance notice now, Saturday 28th March 2009 in Dublin. Put that in your diary folks!

For those that are not familiar with a barcamp, from my experience it is a less formal type of a conference, where the participants set the talks and tone of the event. In particular I like the fact that in many cases, before hand people suggest talks they would like to hear about, and this helps people either reseach a given topic or they go off and look into it and then present at the event.

All attendees are encouraged to present or facilitate a session. Everyone is also asked to share information and experiences of the event, both live and after the fact, via public web channels including (but not limited to) blogging, photo sharing, twittering, and IRC

Myself and Jamie will be working on putting more information on the site as soon as we have more details. A place for you to sign up for a talk, register your interest in hearing a topic in the hopes someone reads it, yells yes I know about that and does a talk on it for you and in general your thoughts on an oss themed barcamp.