I knew after last year’s success that BarcampBelfast09 would be even better. It isn’t for another 7 weeks, yet 134 have registered to attend with 25 speaking. If I remember correctly 100 of those registered after the first 2 or 3 days, by using only twitter to promote so far. With the rising number of [...]

In the spirit of the unconference (it is such a great word, and confuses everyone who hasn’t heard it before) I offered a free photo session at Barcamp Cork and, as mentioned at the time, I have chosen to upload these to an album on Pix.ie, the Irish photo-sharing website. I ask that if you [...]

I guess it’s only to be expected that in a city with two buildings that begin with ‘Web’ the taxi driver is going to end up taking you to the one that is twice as far as the one you want to go to. I was taken to Webprint rather than Webworks, which I could [...]

My first experience of an unconference was BarcampBelfast in June followed by CreativecampBelfast in September. Each one has been fun, informative. For those unaware, an unconference is a “participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. The term “unconference” has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one [...]

“Most definitely NOT fail” – Davymac First, a huge thank you and congratulations to Andy who very successfully pulled of the organisation of Barcamp on Saturday. Though it wasn’t without miniature disasters and minor fallbacks, which Andy has raised. Having said that, problems were minor and overcome with the help of understanding participants and attendees, [...]

What is Barcamp? BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. Interested? Belfast Barcamp is being held tomorrow, Saturday 21st June at Queens University Belfast, Peter Froggatt Centre, from 9am-5pm. To [...]