Just a quick tagging reminder - anyone with photos, blog posts etc. coming from the day (when you get around to uploading them!) could you add the tag ‘creativecamp08′ to them and we’ll get them picked up in the flickr stream.

Starting to see some trickle through

CreativeCamp has just come to a close, the venue emptied, people heading off for food, drinks, a night out in Kilkenny or a trip back home.

A tremendous thanks to everyone who was there for the day, we hope it was an enjoyable experience for all!

Thanks also to the management and staff at The Parade Tower, Kilkenny County Council, the Irish Internet Association, Kilkenny County Enterprise Board, McGovern Wines, Blacknight, Waterford Institute of Technology, Creative Catering, those that helped out on the day, those who gave up their time to make presentations and share ideas and all of those in attendance for the day.

We’ll update the blog over the weekend with links to photos, videos, blog reports and more.

Until we meet again….

We’ll have live coverage of CreativeCamp throughout the day.

• Come back here to the CreativeCamp blog for updates
• Check the #podcamp channel on Jaiku for mobile updates from CreativeCamp
• Follow Bernie Goldbach on Qik with mobile video updates from CreativeCamp

More sources available as they become flagged.

Registration for CreativeCamp takes place in the square room (Registration Room) located on the first floor (one floor up). Those of you registering early might get your hands on a sweet CreativeCamp badge as provided by Walter Higgins.

Yes folks, heckling is mandatory.

There’s a few people wondering about the parking situation tomorrow. There is no car park for Kilkenny Castle and they sure don’t allow cars on the ground (as of yesterday) unless you’re dropping off or picking up deliveries.

The Ormonde Multistorey car park is located nearby. From the Castle, head for the traffic lights, turning left, followed by an immediate right onto Ormonde Street (the Hibernian Hotel is right on the corner). Anyone who was in Kilkenny for PodCamp will remember the Ormonde Hotel, the car park is half way up Ormonde Street on the right, giving you a max 2-minute walk from car to castle. Parking is from €1.80 an hour.

Also nearby (about a 2-3 minute walk) is Dunnes Stores car park. Again from the castle head for the traffic lights and turn right, when you get to the end of Rose Inn Street (Xtravision on the corner), turn left at the bridge and follow the road around to the entrance of the car park. Parking is from €1.20 an hour with the barriers going up around 6:30pm (free parking from 6pm).

If you’re in Kilkenny early there is limited parking available on Canal Square, directly opposite the aforementioned Xtravision by the bridge. There are a limited number of spaces available between the bridge and Dunnes car park. As you turn left at the bridge and down the hill towards the car park you’ll find seven spaces on the right and about the same on the left. These are public parking spaces and don’t need any parking discs.

Parking is available on the Castle Road for a maximum stay of 2 hours (as far as I remember) and it’s limited to the top of the castle road or the side opposite the castle. Parking along by the castle wall is reserved for bus and coach parking.

If you fancy a walk, there is parking available at the MacDonagh Shopping Centre at the top of John Street. From the traffic lights below the castle turn right onto Rose Inn Street, cross the bridge and proceed up John Street, turning right at the traffic lights at the top of the street and the next left into the car park. Parking here is priced from €1.80 per hour with the car park open until 10pm.

Limited parking is also available along John Street (left hand side of the road opposite Langton House Hotel) with spaces available until 8pm (becomes a taxi rank thereafter).

CreativeCamp takes place tomorrow, Saturday March 8th. Myself (Ken), Keith and Tom will be in The Parade Tower from 8:30am tomorrow doing a few last minute bits and pieces with registration open from 9:00am. The first round of talks will take place at 10:15am and four separate rooms will be available throughout the day.

Here’s the provisional running order (subject, as is the nature of BarCamp events, to change)

10:15am

• Cathy Fitzgerald on Creating A Vibrant Arts Community Online (Ormonde Room)
• Tom Raftery on Creative Ways To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint (Duchess Room)
• Ina O’Murchu on Personalisation and The Social Web (Square Room)

11:00am

• Jason Roe on Co-working (Ormonde Room)
• Walter Higgins & Bernie Goldbach on How Friends Communicate (Duchess Room)
• Conor O’Nolan on Geolocation Problems In Ireland (Square Room)

11:45am

• Krishna De on Promoting Your Book With Social Media (Ormonde Room)
• Eamonn Carey on Mobile & Online TV (Duchess Room)
• Gerard Hartnett on Managing Any Kind Of Project With Scrum (Square Room)

12:30pm

• Rachel Rath on Pooling Your Resources To Inspire & Sustain Creativity (Ormonde Room)
• Jan Blanchard on The Semantic Web (Duchess Room)
• Brian White on GPS For Developers (Square Room)

1:15pm to 2:45pm

• Lunch! Lunch will be served in the Tower Room. During the lunch break there will also be a 40 minute screening (in the Tower Room) of Vultures episode one, ‘The Kris Kringle Konundrum’. Vultures is a web-based sitcom scripted, produced and shot on location in Kilkenny. Feel free to sneak out for the rugby if you so wish but there’s plenty of room for networking and chat within the surrounds of The Parade Tower

2:45pm

• Damien Beresford on Outsourcing Your Personal Workload (Ormonde Room)
• Panel discussion: Grabbing The Blogosphere By The Balls with Krishna De, Elly Parker, Sabrina Dent and Martha Rotter (Tower Room)

3:30pm

• Sabrina Dent on How To Blog Like A Boy (Ormonde Room)
• Joe Drumgoole on The Art Of Software Development (Duchess Room)
• Gary Delaney on GPS Drawing (Square Room)

4:15pm

• Beyond Open Coffee with Bernie Goldbach, Gabriela Avram, Anton Mannering, James Corbett, Ina O’Murchu (Ormonde Room)
• Mary Carty on Branding An Arts Organisation From The Inside (Duchess Room)

As mentioned, the timetable is subject to change! We’ll be keeping things up to date via the CreativeCamp blog and the #podcamp channel on Jaiku. If you’re not a Jaiku user and would like to try out the service, check out JaikuInvites.com.

Tea and coffee will be on tap all day long in the bar area, located on the second floor (just down the corridor from the Tower Room). The Duchess and Square (or Registration) Room are located on the first floor with the Tower Room and Ormonde Room located on the second floor. Elevator access is available to all floors, the elevator available on the ground floor just inside the main door on the right.

Toilets are located on both the first and second floor.

Full details of the talks are available here

Ken 

Tom 

Keith 

If you are speaking and care when your talk is scheduled then speak now. Or by lunchtime tomorrow.

The talk schedule will be done in the afternoon and I guess we will try and get it online somewhere afterwards- wait and see how the day is going.
keith

Due to a collapse in our Plan A - take and distribute a neighbouring DSL feed around the Parade Tower, we hastily cobbled together Plan B.

1. Use the 2M’ish guest network in the Tower for general access (ie people who are not speaking)

2. Use mobile broadband modems for speakers - speed tests today were good although that could deteriorate at the weekend. We currently have three that we  know of - if anyone who is coming can bring one that they are willing to share that would be appreciated.

3. In the case of the mobile broadband speeds tanking we will then use the wireless network for speakers and respectfully ask everyone else to stay off it.

Welcome your patience and assistance with this thanks - not ideal but just right now it is what we have.

keith

Here’s an update on any car pooling offers and requests for travel to Kilkenny this weekend. If you have a lift to offer or you’re looking for a lift to Kilkenny then leave a comment here.

• Ina is offering a lift from Galway
• Gerard Harnett is offering a lift / will share a drive from Limerick
• Deborah is driving from Tullamore, through Portlaoise to Kilkenny and is offering a lift
• Alan is looking for a lift from the Galway area
• Gabriela Avram is also looking to travel from Limerick