Hi my name is Charlie and I am the local organiser of the Dublin weekend.
Things are starting to get interesting in the lead up to the Dublin Event. We have a great venue, and have just started to get the word out.
We hope that you will want to join us in our plan to build a business over a weekend. If you would like to get your ticket, simply click on the ‘Get your ticket’ and become a founding member.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Frank Fullard // Oct 17, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Congrats on your initiative. No doubt the Dublin event will be marked its own unique bit of Celtic flair.
2 Brendan Lally // Oct 24, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Best of luck with the event.
I’ve seen it working well in Boulder.
However there were some mistakes made and some lessons 2b learned. See http://boulder.startupweekend.com/
You need 2 create some ground rules that apply and yet allow 4 flexability depending on how things are going.
I’d suggest the following:
#1 One head hocho who runs the event and says Y/N when groups need ‘help/decisions’
#2 setup groups (if have enough members) and let them lead/organise themselves. Give them agreed guidelines that everyone will follow (org structure, version control, userid/pwd, code of conduct, donation fee?, EC2, x-group help, coaching, appl voting etc..)
#3 certain aspects must be available and ‘ensured’ 2b available all the time (snacks, pizza orders, T/coffee, soft drinks, internet access etc..)
#4 the more infrastructure (and helper setup e.g. virtual servers with LAMP installed, RoR, PHP setup, SVN, prototype stacks/APIs etc..) setup and available 2 everyone the better
#5 decide early on (within each group) what dev language 2 use. Fast prototyping is the key and a ‘working’ model is mandatory asap
#6 Agile/XP is the only ‘model’ 2 use and someone needs 2b able 2 coach the groups and get each started
#7 experienced coaches/helpers should be able 2 float and give advice between the teams
#8 get ‘aims’ of weekend and ground rules set
#9 timelines and schedule 4 days
Lal
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