To help figure out how to move forward with Galway Open Coffee, it would be great if you could fill in this short survey (only 7 questions and about 2 minutes!).

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The next Open Coffee Galway will take place next Monday and will have a focus on urban gardening! We will have a visit from Valerie O’ Connor. Val is a professional food photographer based in the sunny mid-west city of Limerick. Val is also a contributing editor to the Bridgestone Irish Food guides, a columnist at the Limerick Leader newspaper and currently studying Organic Horticulture and sustainability at The Organic College, An t’Ionad Glas in Drumcollagher, Co.Limerick.

She recently went on a solitary brigade to Cuba to see how the country has survived the peak oil crisis and turned it’s horticultural self around to a point where it can now actually feed all of her people. The Trip was organised by ICAP,  the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples which was founded on December 30 1960, as a result of the heat, enthusiasm and solidarity arose everywhere in the world after the victory of the Cuban Revolution.

When we import 90% of our fruit and vegetables, Ireland would have enough food to eat for about two weeks if our fuels were cut off and we suddenly had to fend for ourselves.
Cubans don’t have the luxury of emigrating when times get tough, they simply don’t have the money or freedom to do it like we do.

Val will speak about her trip to Cuba and urban gardening and how the Cubans manage their gardening.

We will also be hooking up to chat with Mark Cub Covington of Detroit to talk about the urban garden that has he started on Georgia Street in Detroit via Skype.

You can read more on what he did here in this recent Irish Times article.

You can also have a look at the garden that they built in this video below.

Where: Webworks building, Galway
When: Monday 28th of February at 3pm

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September Open Coffee Galway will be held at Webworks building, Fairgreen Galway (beside the coach station) this Friday at 11am.

Henry Story will give a short talk/discussion on the emerging Social Web.

Henry was until recently Social Web Architect at the late Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Before joining Sun he developed the BabelFish machine translation service at AltaVista in the late 1990ies.

He has been working on blogging tools, specs (Atom), and recently on the emerging Social Web.

The Talk: Current Social Networks are centralised: members can only “friend” other members of the network. But why? With a telephone one can call people the whole world over independently of the network operator used. With email you can send a message to the whole world. So why can we not connect across networks? This would allow users to control their data much better, something which for many individuals and organisations is vital.

In this talk Henry Story will explain both where the problem lies, and how it can be solved, leading to the emergence of a wholly new web ecosystem.

Hope to see you there

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Open Coffee Galway July is set to be held at 091Labs in Exchange House, Fairgreen, Galway. 091 Labs is a new shared physical space for any and all creative projects: art, woodwork, software, photography and electronics – to name but a few. The aim of 091 Labs  is to provide Galway with a place for people to work and collaborate on creative projects, to learn and to share their knowledge. They welcome all skill levels and all creative ideas. Due to the  busy time of year in Galway – Open Coffee will be held Monday the 26th of July at 11am.

Padraic O’ Maille will give a short talk.

Hope to see you all there.

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Open Coffee Galway September

Next month’s Open Coffee Galway will take place in Java’s coffee shop on Abbeygate street at 11am Saturday the 5th of September.

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This months Open Coffee Galway will be held in the House Hotel at 11 am the 4th of July.
I switched it to the Saturday as many people who were at work were unable to attend past Open Coffees.
I’ve asked PJ King to come along and give a short talk on some of the pitfalls when you start a technology company. I hope to see you at the House Hotel.

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Thank you!

Thanks to everyone who attended Open Coffee Galway last week. I really appreciate so many of you turning up. I promised I’d post details of the people that came. First up are some of the new faces: Tony O’ Kelly, the Programme Manager of the Midlands & West Enterprise Innovation and Research Centre. Gaby Froese of gmg-media. Conor O’ Donovan of  marrakech. Adrian Avendano of Meet for Real. I know that there are many others whose contact details I dont have so please forward them on.

Thanks to John Breslin and all the DERI crew  for their reliable turnout!

Many thanks to the Westwood Hotel staff for organising the coffees for us!

And to whoever paid for all the coffees a BIG thank you!

The next Galway Open Coffee will be held Friday the 1st of May again in the Westwood Hotel at 11am.

I hope to see you all there again.

Ina

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Hi Everyone. Galway Open Coffee will be starting up very soon.

Looking forward to confirming the venue and date.

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