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

Well sadly the event is now over. It was so awesome, thanks for coming!. There were over 100 people there throughout the day. I think it’s such an amazing event with fantastic speakers and so much fun catching up with some of the most passionate Open Source people in the country. If you have any photos, please put a link to them in the comments so we can all go check them out.

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.

Hi!

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!!!

A couple of weeks ago I did an interview with Declan McGrath for his Code Mongrel podcast.   There are Oggs and Mp3 versions available on Code Mongrel.   I tried to discuss some of the cool talks we have coming up on the schedule.    I’m looking forward to seeing Jan Lennart talk about Couch DB.  I missed seeing him at GUADEC.   Then there’s so much on that I’ll probably struggle to pick what’s best for each slot after that.

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.

Please don’t run away after the event finishes up.  We have some food laid on afterwards down at Solas and it’ll give you a chance to meet and chat to people that you may not have seen during the day. Discussing some of the talks and meeting some of the speakers.

The event finishes at 16:30 sharp and then we’re headed down to Solas, which if you follow the line of people leaving is only a 6 minute walk.  We have laid on a BBQ, and it’ll only cost you €3, and from 16:30 – 18:30 there will be some discounted drinks during these hours, with some food later on for those who want to stick around.  We have upstairs cornerd off also during this time and we will be hanging out here for the evening as the bar doesn’t close till 3am!

LPIC-1 Exam Cram:

So it seems there is a large interest in the LPI exams and Howe systems have said they are going to run a intensive cram course in the morning before the exam take place to help folks out.

The exam cram will give candidates who have studied for LPIC-1 (LPI 101 and LPI 102) an extra edge in the exam itself. It will guide candidates through questions that are normally problematic and could make the difference between a near pass and a pass mark.Duration 3 hours. Cost €70.

The price is heavily discounted and is aimed at the DIY candidates at OSSBARCAMP. The cost of the exam cram can be discounted by means of a voucher against future courses with Howe Systems.

Howe Systems announce 50% saving on LPI Exams Howe Systems are please to announce that they will be offering LPI Exams at the forthcoming OSSBARCAMP on the 19th of September. The exams are offered subject to availability, so early registration is vital.
Exams are being offered at £ 75  for LPI 101, 102, 201 or  202.

To place an order e-mail: info@lpi-uk.org, with: Name, Contact Number, Exam Required and preference for Morning or Afternoon Exam. You will then be then contacted prior to the 19 of September to confirm your place and requesting your credit card number.

There has been talk of some people getting a study group together, if you’re interested drop us a line or pop onto the channel so we can set something up

Time is flying by and this Saturday the timetable goes live for you to fill in your talk slot if you’d like to give one. Hopefully we’ll see some great talks and I encourage people to sign up even if you’ve never given a talk before. Barcamps are a lot more casual and less pressure than conferences so come along and try it out.  There have been some suggestions on topics, but what ever you want to talk about is fine by us.  If you want to do a joint topic, that’s also great!

This time we’re also offering a chance to sit the LPI exams, “The Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) program is designed to certify the competency of IT professionals using the Linux operating system and its associated tools. It is designed to be distribution neutral, following the Linux Standard Base and other relevant standards and conventions.” As an incentive also, the exams are being offered at a discounted rate, which is great ! The exams will be paper based and you will be able to sit LPI 101, 102, 201 OR 202  for £75 .

With this in mind….. Some people want to set up a study group, which I think is great, drop us a dm on twitter or email us and we’ll see what we can sort out, you can always find us on #ossbarcamp on irc.freenode.net

Andrea Trasatti dropped me a line last week and told me about a cool plugin and we’ve added it to the site here.

The guys at dotMobi developed and released as Open Source a nice plug-in that makes your blog mobile very easily. The plug-in generates well formed mark-up (as long as you haven’t completely screwed it within your articles) and comes with a load of features and tweaks such as a very simple yet effective mobile detection algorithm, mobile ads, 2D barcodes to link to the mobile site, and really nice themes that you can easily extend.

The project is available directly via WordPress site and is called ‘WordPress Mobile Pack’, in the spirit of Open Source we are always looking for new contributors that can add value to this plug-in. Everything is committed on the official SVN and you can follow the project on assembla. Support is offered via mobiForge where of course questions and contributions are always welcome .

We launched registration this week just so we have an idea of who’s coming, again the event is free so you only have to get there. I’ve added a suggest a topic page, where I hope people can start discussing topics they are interested in or want to hear about.

Finally, the last time the site went up and we put up the schedule it filled up very fast. So to allow for this, this time I’m stating the schedule will go up August 8th so folks have loads of time to think about topics and come up with some ideas.

Also the last time we only had 4 lightning talks, and people really seemed to like them, so I’ve added 4 more. These can be for demo’s or a short talk.  I’ll also keep you posted on the LPI exams. Don’t forget you can follow us on twitter and identi.ca @ossbarcamp