As some of you may remember, I ran an event a few years back called TeenCamp Ireland.
The idea was for it to be a BarCamp-style event which brought teens together to talk about the topics they liked, but sort-of focus on the web and tech at the same time.
It gained a bit of traction, I think maybe 60 people attended and it was pretty good fun. I thought it was a great idea and enough people seemed to agree for us to call it a success.
I always thought I did a crappy job of it though. It wasn’t what I initially thought it would be but I never really knew how to explain why, because I didn’t know what I wanted from TeenCamp.
So here’s what I’ve got so far:
get a rake load of young professionals and lock ‘em in a room together
Take some established young professionals: students, bloggers, techies, Young Scientists from all around Ireland and give them a platform to address their peers, the press and professionals.
Give everyone who wants it the opportunity to pitch, discuss or share ideas.
Provide people with the resources to help them develop ideas and to meet others – an issue I know I’ve stumbled with on projects.
Set a challenge for the room, and a prize for the group that develops the best solution.
We could run a few of these events a year, focusing on a different topic and holding it in a different part of Ireland each year.
Its going to be cheap, so this won’t be glamorous. Ideally, it should be free but I hear sponsorship is just great in the middle of a global economic crisis.
Most importantly though, I want everyone to leave feeling like I do when I see my peers: that anything is possible and that help is always available.
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Chris was diagnosed with Grade-4 brain cancer in November 2009. He’s been blogging and tweeting his experiences all the way. We’ve been reading his heartbreaking posts about his worsening condition lately and are now trying to raise funds for Chris and his family in their time of need.
Many of us in Cork came to know Chris due to his past position at O2, through twitter he helped us all get our hands on iPhones. Beyond the iPhone, it’s fantastic great to connect with someone else who has interests in tech over twitter and facebook – it really shows the power of social networking.
All we’re asking for is considering a small donation to cheer Chris up as his condition worsens and to help out his family.
Thanks.
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The three best people in the world and myself there. Having no clue what they were getting into they all agreed to help me out being “experts” for a show on TV3.
I owe them all steaks.
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Powered by my love/hate relationship with WordPress, this blog/website will not be updated much, maybe monthly (still more than my “official” blog, contrar.ie) with what I’m up to.
The point of this site is to merely introduce myself to people who don’t already know me, tell them what I’m up to and point them to more specific areas of my online life.
So yeah. Welcome. Read my Colophon and Contact me about stuff.
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