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

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

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.

During OSSBarcamp we are going to be running a code competition. As well as the talks going on we thought we’d make it more fun to have participation through the competition and for folks to discuss what is the best solution and though which language.  The idea of the day is to have fun and engage with one another.

How this is going to work

- There will be a series of problems with an input and a desired output. Problem, input and outputs will be made available on the day.
- Solutions can be submitted in most popular languages: C, C++,C#, Java, Ruby, Python, etc (if you are unsure if your language of choice is supported please ask )
- Code will be judged on Correctness, as well as other criteria like good design, . Ideally your code should be unit tested

How to participate

Start early on the day, please turn up for registration at 9:30am for competition details which you will be given to you as you’ll need to register and get a password for the source control.
We will use source control as a way to receive the solutions to the problems ( on tight decisions, we ll use the time of the solution received as a decider)

There will be prizes for the competition which will be announced later on.

Howe Systems are pleased to announce the availability of LPI exams at the forthcoming OSSBarcamp. These will be
offered at a 50% saving of £ 75 (invoiced through LinuxIT, England).

Prior registration is necessary as demand for exams could be high. To register and secure a place contact howesystem as they will be looking after this and do need to know who will be attending.

Howe systems will hold an LPIC-1 Exam Cram for candidates on the day if there is sufficient interest. This will take place prior to the exams and will cost €70.

We have a date, a date you don’t want to miss. Saturday 17th April 2010.  We have a new venue this time, but I would like to take this opportunity to thank DIT and Deirdre Lawless for their help in running the previous events. Without them we’d never have gotten off our feet. Equally without our past sponsors of Echolibre and Open Source Solutions Centre we’d not have gotten ourselves off the ground.

Saturday 17th April event will be held  at the  IBM  offices  located in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. We hope to run this event a bit more laid back then previous events, with more ad hoc talks, more lightening sessions, and people volunteering on the day! Also we shall be running the LPI exams again on the day.

Any ideas on how to help or get involved, suggestions on how to run the day, feel free to EMAIL ME

]]> http://www.ossbarcamp.com/2010/02/16/were-back-and-with-some-news/feed/ 1 http://www.ossbarcamp.com/2009/12/30/ossbarcamp-2010-date/ http://www.ossbarcamp.com/2009/12/30/ossbarcamp-2010-date/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:59:18 +0000 Czajkowski http://www.ossbarcamp.com/?p=458 I do have plans to run another OSSBarcamp in 2010. I need to A) Find a suitable venue – easy access, and good wifi are the criteria. B) A suitable date.

With A) being worked on and I’m looking at Dublin again, for the time being, but also I would like to run one in Northern Ireland and will consider other locations if you can point me in the right direction.

I need your help to help me pick a date, as lets be honest, I’ll be there no matter what. I’ve done up a quick poll that if you could select a suitable date that would as I’d like as many people as possible to come to these events. I’d also like to open the invitation to as many groups to come and take part in the day. If you’ve special requirements let me know and I’ll do my best to accommodate you.

So…… HELP me pick a date

Thanks again to all the speakers for volunteering and doing such a great job. Could you please put up your slides and leave a link in the comments so that we can read what happened in the talks we missed.

Thankyou so much to our sponsors DIT for the great venue and for being so helpful all day long, to Echolibre and the Open Source Solutions Centre as well.

There’s another OSSBarcamp planned for April, but not in Dublin this time. I think a few more are in the works for outside of Dublin as well.

Finally a huge thank you to Laura who coordinated the whole event.

Jaime.

So we’re really getting close now with just over a day until the big event.    Apparenlty there’s room for some cars out the front and more parking if you drive in through the campus to behind the buildings.

There’s going to be wireless so you can bring your fancy phone or laptops along.

You can bring a packed lunch or there’s shops on wexford street, I think there’s a Subway and a Quiznos, maybe some cafes and restaurants.  We have a 45 minute break there.   Please comment if you know any more food places in the area.

ALSO Bring a friend,  someone you’ve always wanted to introduce to free software.  They’ll learn so much and want to get their hands dirty on a keyboard asap.

For dinner we’ll all be over at Solas, where the bbq will be sizzing away some goodies.  There’s a special deal for 3 Euros for the BBQ.  And there’s some drink deals as well, find out more on the night!

SEE YOU THERE!!!

There’s just over a week to go until the OSSBarcamp now!  Can you believe it?   It’s going to be great,  over 80 people have signed up.  If you haven’t done so yourself yet go to the  registration page.     You can come along at any time on the day.   There’s going to be Linux Professional Institute (LPI) exams too which some people are studying for and will complete on the day and an LPI exam cram session before hand.

After the event the bar Solas is booked from 4:30 so stick around and come for a pint and some BBQ food.  More info on Solas.

So I guess I’ll see you there on September Saturday 19th.

Jaime.