Are you aware of what BarCamp is? Some of you might be. BarCamp is a user-generated conference where attendees give talks typically often focusing on web applications, open source technologies, social protocols and open data formats. Attendees are responsible for not only listening diligently (and scoffing pizza), but also for the talks themselves, sharing their areas of expertise with the group - extending the ethos of OpenCoffee and Co-Working to a conference format.

Some of you reading may have attended last year. Sadly, I was out of the country, but am more than making up for that this year by actually organizing the conference itself (thanks for busying yourself with parenthood, Matt!). Unfortunately, that also adds pressure for me to give a talk myself, but unless I can get away with talking about sandwiches or the most effective way to procrastinate your way through an ever-growing workload, I’m a bit stuck.

So get your thinking caps on (and for those interested in sponsoring - your cheque-books out) - details of BarCamp Belfast ‘08 should be appearing in an RSS aggregator near you promptly.