Web 2 Ireland

The details of the it@cork event have been announced. It is on April 20th in The Cork International Airport Hotel from 2-5pm and is titled “Moving to the Cloud – How businesses are scaling IT and saving money simultaneously”.

There is a superb speaker line-up as follows:

• Pol Mac Aonghusa, CTO Emerging Technology Incubation Center, IBM on “Emerging Technology in the Cloud! Real Life Examples”
• Kevin Noonan, Independent Developer on “Castles in the Cloud: Developing with Google App Engine”
• Jon Mountjoy, Salesforce.com on “Cloud Computing in Practice: Fast Application Development and Delivery on Force.com”
• AJ McKee, Rush Hour Analytics on “Knocking on Heavens Door – The Business Reality of Doing Business in the Cloud”
• Simone Brunozzi, AWS Evangelist on “Amazon Web Services”

The cost is €60 for non-members and free for members.

The crew in Sligo are kicking off an OpenCoffee and it’s about time! That area is a real hub of business and web activity so it should be very popular.

The first one is on April 2nd in the Clarion Hotel in Sligo Town at 11am. All info over on the blog.

Best of luck to the organisers, we look forward to hearing lots more about it.

Seedcamp is holding an event in London on 20th April aimed at Irish and UK start-ups, called Mini Seedcamp London. It will be bringing together 20 of the best seed stage web tech startups with experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and developers from all over Europe to participate in a day of intense mentoring, panel discussions and presentations.

Applications are open now and the closing date is midnight on April 6th. All the details, including how to enter, can be found here.

You don’t have one for ages and then three come along together We’ve just had API Wars and Facebook Garage. it@cork will soon be announcing a Cloud Event for April 20th and in between the two, the combined forces of Python Ireland and Ruby Ireland are having their event.

It will take place on Wednesday, March 11th, in /The Vaults/ in Dublin at 7pm. Event details here.

The lineup is:

• Cloudware for Python and Ruby (This talk will focus on the offerings from Google and Amazon.) – Kevin Noonan
• Developing LongURLPlease.com on Google App Engine – Darragh Curran
• Converting a Python library (XLWT) to Ruby (Surpass) – Ana Nelson
• Lightning Talks (If they have time)

They don’t have sponsorship yet and would appreciate it for the food.

Lots more posts coming about Thursdays events. Suffice to say it blew away everyone’s expectations. 150+ people spent the afternoon learning and networking. Thanks again to all the speakers. Here is RTE’s coverage of it (full news episode on RTE site here):

FOWA Dublin has sold out but Ryan Carson and the gang have decided to squeeze in another 20 people.

This is going to be a stonkingly-good day and one not to miss. Head on over to the site and book your seat if you haven’t already.

To enable everyone to track what’s happening at API Wars and Facebook Garage, we recommend using the “web2ire” tag on any platform that supports them including hashtags (#web2ire) on Twitter.

This means you can track the conversation on Twitter in real-time here, blogposts on Technorati, pictures on Flickr and even more pictures on Pix.ie.

The sign-ups for both API Wars and Facebook Garage have really exceeded anything we expected. Looking like 100+ will show up for both. There might be a babycham or two afterwards. Did I mention that the Garage is sponsored by Intel? The first Garage ever that they have sponsored. Nice eh? 

But it turns out that many of you are being far too coy. Events like these, which at heart are Unconferences or Unevents, rely on those attending to be more than passive listeners.

That’s why we’re putting the call out. If you want to talk on any topic relevant to either session, let us know. You don’t need slides, heck you don’t need notes, just have something interesting to say. Got an app with an API? Wanna tell people about it? Let us know. Got an app that mashes-up a bunch of APIs? Let us know. Integrated Facebook Connect or built an FB App? Let us know.

web2ireland DOT editor AT gmail DOT com

Operators are standing by, come on down.

As a primer for our Facebook Garage, we are also running a session on APIs right before it in the Digital Exchange on March 5th.

This is the first Web2Ireland API Wars and Opportunities event. Many entrepreneurs and startups are building their business on the “shoulder of giants” by using their APIs and this mini-event/workshop is an opportunity for the Web2Ireland community to meet and discuss

• using APIs for business development
• building mashups/widgets/etc
• apps on mobile platforms – iPhone, Android, nokia, etc
• using enterprise 2.0 platforms – force.com, IBM, etc
• developer infrastructure – Amazon, Google App Engine

If you are attending in any capacity, please sign-up here.

By signing up for Web2Ireland API Wars you are automatically included in attendee list for Developer Garage – check here for more information on Facebook Garage

And then some social drinks for all involved….

Facebook in Ireland is exploding in popularity; 400k+ users at last count. But it’s not just the number of punters that is growing, so too is the development community.

We are genuinely excited therefore to announce Ireland’s first Facebook Developer Garage, brought to you by Web2Ireland on march 5th in the Digital Exchange in Dublin.

The Garages are just like they sound a place to explore, get gritty, tinker, experiment, and test out ideas for Facebook Platform.  We also want to use it as an opportunity for the Irish FB developer community to network and learn from each other. See the London site to get an idea of what they are all about.

If you are interested in presenting what you are working on in Facebook or giving a demo, just email web2ireland.editor@gmail.com

Please RSVP on Facebook if you are attending in any capacity. This is a completely free event and we are very appreciative of the support being provided by Facebook themselves.

We will have some further very exciting news about the Garage in the next two weeks.

And if that’s not enough for you, Web2Ireland is also hosting a mini-workshop on API Wars and Opportunities before the Garage. See the next blog post!