The first (Irish) Open Coffee BBQ is a spin-off of the Open Coffee sessions that have been taking place in Limerick over the last year or so. While these have always been very interesting there has been a suggestion for some time to organise one in a more scenic settings. Evert Bopp had suggested Terryglass on several occasions as he had installed free public WiFi in the “Derg Inn” there.
Eventually a discussion on Jaiku & Twitter led to this blogpost. We are now busy planning the event for this summer. The date has been selected as July 16th!
There will be a function room available for discussions as well as space inside and outside for break-out sessions. I am also trying to arrange the village hall for demos/lectures. On top of that there are BBQ facilities at Terryglass Quay and there will be a BBQ at the end of the day.
Additionally there will probably be some music, kayaking and we are also looking into arranging childcare/entertainment.
More to follow….
Three weeks to go…
Yes that’s right, only three weeks to go until the Open Coffee Club BBQ!
So what has been happening lately?
Well we now have over 70 confirmed sign-ups, 9 confirmed sponsors, 11 proposed talks and what looks like a fantastic day!!
What more is that we will have our own special version of the infamous “Dragons Den” competition. […]
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Invitations….
I’ve made up some ready made invites to the event for people who want to forward these to interested parties.
There’s a Word (2007) version here and one in PDF format here.
Now go and spread the word!
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Open Coffee Club BBQ commemorative aprons!
Seeing that we intend to be the first Open Coffee Club BBQ an un-forgetable event I had the idea that people might want to have something to remember it by and to proof to their offspring (in years to come) that they were there when it all started.
Keeping in the spirit of a BBQ the […]
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Press release..
We sent out our first press release last week.
For anyone that would like a copy to forward feel free to copy from here:
http://opencoffeeclub-bbq.com/press/
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More people and more sponsors = more fun!!
Today we received two more sign-ups for the event bringing the total to 38 attendees.
We also received an offer for sponsorship from Deborah Hadley!
I would also like to ask everybody who is attending but hasn’t confirmed this to do so via the website.
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