Monday, April 23, 2007

BarCamp Dublin Update

So I gave my talk at BarCamp Dublin. I thought it went well, and there were some insightful questions afterwards.

Meet a few familiar faces from past gigs such as Sean McGrath, Joe Drumgoole, and Paul Browne.

Chatted with a few I hadn't meet in person before: Sean O'Sullivan, Tom Raftery, Aidan Finn, Anthony Griffin, Paul Campbell, Ana Nelson, Richard Hearne, Maryrose Lyons, Eoghan McCabe, Sarah Carey, Barry Cronin, Karl Glennon and Shane (sorry Shane didn't get your surname) from Roomex Hotels to name but a few.

An excellent networking event and highly recommended. One disappointment was that I missed Paul's rails talk as it clashed with my own.

6 comments:

pabqas said...

We definitely should have orchestrated that better ... I heard that you gave some great insights.

Apparently you mentioned never talking to IT departments ... I know what you mean, but it's not a hard and fast rule - I'm having great fun converting people day by day!

Hopefully catch up with you at Ruby Tuesday next month.

Cengal said...

I didn't actually say never, I suggested going to the business people first if you can. That's not as easy as it sounds. If you've proven the business benefits you a long way there.

See you next month.

Eoghan McCabe said...

Great to meet you, John.

Cengal said...

Hi Eoghan,

Great to meet you also.

John

The Lal said...

John,

Glad 2c u getting out from under that keyboard :)

Lal

Cengal said...

Yeah, it was great to get out and meet the people. A lot of familiar names are now familiar faces :)