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James said

BarCampBelfast was by far the most successful conference I’ve been to in a long time.

It really gives me confidence (not that I was lacking much) the future is bright in the tech scene in Ireland.

I’ve written up a short report with photos on the event on my blog:

http://www.nitechblog.com/blog/p.php?id=314

Paul McKeever said

Great event, and was super to get chatting with everyone.

Also enjoyed Lee Munroe’s talk, which should get double points as he was en route to do the London Marathon!

You can leave feedback on either of our taks via http://speakerrate.com/paulmay or
http://speakerrate.com/paulmckeever

Some of the Front team will also be talking at Refresh Belfast on the 18th May - would be great to see you there: http://www.designbyfront.com/workinprogress/article/refresh-belfast-2009

Charlie Neely said

This was my first BarCamp, and I shan’t be missing another! Cheers to Stephen Stewart (Banjax) for his talk on HTML 5, I also found it interesting to hear Dermot McNally speaking about the collaborative work being done at http://www.openstreetmap.org

Paul May said

Thanks for the kind words about our talks - we really enjoyed the day.

Double thumbs up for the http://OpenStreetMap.org talk from Dermot - a vital project given the growing importance of data being visualised in a geo-context.

With the success of the DevDays event on Friday, then Barcamp - last week was a big leap for tech here in Belfast.

Stephen Stewart said

Paul May: enjoyed your talk, was going to retitle my talk “HTML5: A Better Spade” but events conspired against me.

Charlie: Thanks! And thanks to you and Eammon for staying behind to see the demo’s I didn’t get to demo :)

Paul May said

Stephen: Thanks for the kind words. We’re excited about HTML 5; some of the stuff we’ve seen from Google and the likes using it (mobile, offline gmail browser etc) are really cool.  I hope things are well with you.