Re: Origins of ILUG

John,
I was at that event in Belfast and I organised my own event in Belfast a
few months back (BelFOSS <http://belfoss.eeecs.qub.ac.uk>). At BelFOSS I
met the guy who had organised the Open Island events that included RMS and
realised we were both from Newry and both live in the same estate. So we
set about organising an event in Newry. It's an unconference GovCamp and
will be held at Narrow Water Castle on 24th Sept 2016. Although not
strictly FOSS or Linux it should be of interest to many on this list. We
are organising at a half-way point between Dublin and Belfast to cater for
everyone and there will be people travelling over from England too. For
more info see the GovCampConnect website <http://www.govcampconnect.org/>.
If anyone wants to hear the full story behind the OpenIsland event with
RMS, Google and Oracle come along and ask Brian about it!
Cheers,
jonny

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On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:12 AM, John P. Looney <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Brendan Minish <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> If there are plans for a barcamp, please consider making it easy for
>> those of us who have to travel to Dublin by not starting too early and
>> hosting it in the vicinity of somewhere that has parking that does not
>> cost fortunes. Bonus points if it's organised enough that we can book
>> time off work & expense the travel with a straight face (like our CEO
>> has done in years past for PyCon, if you get my drift..)
>
>
>  One of the things that made ILUG "irish" was that we did try spread the
> events around the country intentionally. And damn, that was fun. Everything
> from going to Belfast to watch Oracle wind Richard Stallman up, by claiming
> that they supported free software by giving away CLI tools for Oracle, to
> persuading bouncers in a Galway nightclub to let Alan Cox in, despite
> wearing sandals.
>
>  So...no need for a Dublin Barcamp, as long as the venue is cool.
>
>  Good times.
>
> John
>
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