Web 2 Ireland

In a previous post Conor wrote about applying for Seedcamp.  From the poll it seems a good number of people would like a little help filling out the application form (including myself) and some are available to lend a hand from their own experience of applying last year.

A room has been arranged in Oriel House Hotel in Ballincollig, Cork for Thursday August 7th starting at around 9am.

It will be quite informal, the aim it to get practical advise from each other on answering some of the questions on the form to highlight your business or idea as best as possible.

I’ll have print outs of the questions with me on the day. Anyone who’d like the them before hand, heres a link to the the Seedcamp application PDF.

Some further information about the Oriel house location over on my own blog.

See you there!

Conall O’Morain from the Sunday Business Show on TodayFM left a comment on the Argolon blog to let me know about their edition this Sunday. It’s all about “Starting Your Own Business”. As Conall said:

We will have advice from Enterprise Ireland, the CEBs and one of the country's wisest business advisers with us as well.

If you are thinking about the leap, maybe this will be the trigger to do something about it? 10.30am this Sunday and streamed live here.

Whilst today is possibly not the best day ever to discuss cloud computing/storage, given the S3 problems last night, we’re doing another call on interest in attending a session on this in the near future.

Both the Amazon sessions in Dublin and Cork were very strongly attended so the interest seems to be there in general. However there are also a wide range of offerings out there from IBM, Salesforce and of course Google. Salesforce had their recent conference here which covered the Force.com Platform as a service and I’ve been talking to the IBM guys in Ireland who have their cloud computing centre in Mulhuddart.

I know many people were excited when the Google App Engine was announced. For some reason there seems to be a very strong Python dev community here with lots of startups using Django too, so the fit is quite strong.

So two questions for you this morning. First, if there was a full day session covering the cloud by one of these vendors, would you be interested in attending and what would you like to hear about (biz, tech, mix, heavy API drilldown)? Secondly, let us know in the comments what you are up to in this area.

As many of you know, the first BarCamp in Ireland was held wayyyy back in September 2006 in Cork. It is still remembered as a wonderful day and I met many of the people I now know well for the first time there. Since that event in Webworks there have been further ones in Waterford, Dublin, Galway, Belfast, Kilkenny and Limerick.

Recently it was suggested to me that we have another one in Cork in January. I lobbed the idea out at an OpenCoffee to discover that there was tons of pent-up demand for a BarCamp and that January was too far away.

A further conversation with John Handelaar at the hugely successful and very barcampy OpenCoffeeClub BBQ got me all jizzed up about having one sooner too.

The next BarCamp is PodCamp II in Kilkenny on September 27th so I’d like to propose the next Cork one for the November timeframe. Sufficiently long after PodCamp but not too close to Christmas.

Please use the PollDaddy poll below to indicate levels of interest and, if it is there, I’m sure we can arrange something down here

UPDATE: I can’t see how to edit a poll after it is published but one great suggestion has been made, which is to offer “Any Saturday in November” as an option. If that’s what you’d prefer, just enter it in “Other”

Just got a note from Joe Johnson to tell us that the IETF, the guys who brought you IP, Gopher, FTP and what’s that other one, ah yes HTTP, are meeting in Citywest in Dublin from 27th July to 1st August.

There are over 1000 people registered with but so far only about 20 from Ireland.  If you want to hear how the plumbing of the internet is going to evolve, then you need to be there.

We’ve just heard that we’ll have several international heavy hitters in tech finance visiting Ireland in Aug/Sep with a view to meeting with lots of start-ups and hearing about what’s happening here.

The details are still TBD and we’ll keep you posted with progress. This is a fantastic opportunity for  web2ireland companies and you’d better start tuning your pitches now!