OpenCoffee Club Dublin

Thanks to the lovely staff at the National College of Ireland in the IFSC, our next OpenCoffee Dublin is in the fantastic NCI.  They’re even providing complementary coffee and tea for attendees for this OpenCoffee, which is really nice of them.

This OpenCoffee will be on THURSDAY, 6th MAY 2010 from 10:30am.

If you’re not familiar with the NCI, it’s located at Mayor Square in the IFSC in Dublin 1.  It’s easily accessible via red Luas (Mayor Square stop) and DART (Connolly Station stop), and the NCI have offered five free parking spaces for attendees (let me know if you want one) and there’s additional parking in the NCI car park & at Connolly Station car park.  Click here for a link to NCI’s location map.  We’ll be right inside in the main cafe on the ground floor.

I will have more badges for those of you who missed the last one, so come along & collect your OpenCoffee Dublin badge.

Please leave a comment below if you’re attending so that we have an idea of numbers, and if you are interested in demoing,  please e-mail martharo@microsoft.com and let me know.

Thanks very much to Emily Barry & Emma Henderson from NCI for their offer to host & provide coffee & tea!

See you Thursday.

4/5/2010-UPDATE: Here are wireless instructions for attendees of OpenCoffee

Visitor Wireless connection is intended for guests or visitors of NCI for temporary access to the internet from their own laptops. Staff & Students must use the Staff & Student Wireless network as applicable.

The Visitor Wireless connection password is changed on a weekly basis – please contact the IT Department for the latest password.

Instructions for connecting to the Visitor Wireless.

· Open the WiFi manager and browse the list of available networks. Highlight Visitor and click connect.

· Open Internet explorer and go to:
Tools >> Internet Options >> Connections Tab >> LAN Settings

· Check Use Automatic Configuration Script and in the address box type:
http://192.168.240.11/proxy.pac and click OK

· Close Internet Explorer and open it again and you should be presented with a log in pages as below where you enter the current username and password as provided by IT Department

The next OpenCoffee Club Dublin will be on SATURDAY, 21 March 2009 from 10:30am.

This will be our last meeting in the New York Grind in the IFSC, as NYG seems to have gotten a bit small for us.  http://www.nyg.ie/.  There was discussion last time about a new venue, so please come along with ideas for an alternate Saturday meeting place.  We will be finalizing our decision for that location on Saturday and meet there in April.

Please leave a comment below if you’re attending so that we have an idea of numbers, and if you are interested in demoing,  please e-mail martharo@microsoft.com and let me know.

See you Saturday.

I am at the Filmbase Cafe right now and am unable to connect to their wifi.  There are some plugs on one wall, and while the tea selection is great, I have to say that the construction work on the adjacent street (read: drilling cobblestone) makes this not an ideal OpenCoffee location for now.

So I am proposing we try The Digital Hub for this week.  From the reports, they have good wifi, and I have seen their cool little meeting rooms and can vouch for the coffee.

Every time I’ve been there, I’ve had to sign in - does someone need to host us there?  Volunteers please?

Thanks everyone for all the great suggestions and comments.

The next OpenCoffee Club Dublin will be on 12 June 2008 in the front bar at The Morrison Hotel from 10am.

With the collaboration of many people around Ireland and even abroad, we did some live streaming of OpenCoffees last week from all around Ireland.  Many thanks to everyone who participated and a special thanks to those who helped set it up!

The video can be found here:  http://blip.tv/file/871043/ with credit to Chuck Boyce for the post-editing work.

Ángel took some great photos at the event, and those are online here: http://pix.ie/bohoe/album/321487 

Thanks everyone, and see you next week.