Coming soon: 3D Barcamp.

Another kick-ass event is coming to Limerick soon: 3D Barcamp!
It's an event organised by James Corbett, Gabriela Avram and Bernie Goldbach (the godfather of Irish interactive media).
Quote from the site:
3Dcamp will held in the Engineering Research Building at the University of Limerick on May 24th between 10-6pm. This themed Barcamp will focus on virtual worlds (Second Life, the Metaverse), mirror worlds (Google Earth and Virtual Earth), mapping mashups, GPS, Location based Services (LBSs), haptics (eg. Wiimote hacks), 3D modelling (Blender, Sketchup) and all things 3D. Essentially the internet beyond the 2D browser.

Everybody is welcome, from users to developers, interaction designers, sociologists, artists and business people.

I can strongly recommend that you register here and make sure that you get there in time!

More about Barcamp..

My activities during Barcamp have just been extended; besides my talk about "The need for an alternative telecoms infrastructure in Ireland" I will now also sit on a panel discussing "Finding money for your start-up".
Just so that people can have a bit of an idea of what the content of both is I will give a short outline below:

"The need for an alternative telecoms infrastructure in Ireland"
Rather than giving a big long talk spouting just my opinion on the deplorable state of broadband availability I hope to start a bit of an interactive discussion. I will give a short description of what I consider lies at the root of this problem and why I think that an alternative telecoms infra-structure is the only solution to this problem. After that I would very much have a open discussion on the subject. What I do not want is a session of Eircom, Comreg & governemnt bashing. There has been enough of this for the last few years and it does not lead to a solution to the problem.

"Finding money for your start-up"
This is a panel discussion so, apart from giving a quick outline on what's involved in starting to raise funds by going through a SEC listing with the aim of trading on the OTC/BB, I will attempt to answer participants questions to the best of my ability.

E.

Barcamp SouthEast.

I attended the First Irish BarCamp in Cork last year and really enjoyed it.
It's ironic to see that a face-to-face meeting of a number of people actively involved with online media, online (social or business) networking, web applications etc. proves to be a lot more productive and enjoyable that meeting in a so-called "digital" environment.

Now there's another Barcamp, this time it's in Waterford.
BarCamp SouthEast will take place on the 20th of January.
I will be attending and speaking on the: "The need for an alternative telecoms infrastructure in Ireland" and will also sit on the panel for: "financing your start-up".

Hope to see you there!

E.