Win tickets to the Dublin Web Summit and put your questions to the speakers

Darragh

The Dublin Web Summit is on this Thursday, Feb 4, 2010 in Trinity College, Dublin, and thanks to the organisers we have 5 tickets to this now sold-out event to give away.

(In truth, they'd also generously offered us a 10% discount on tickets (code was BOARDS) earlier this month, but recent events on site have just meant that we couldn't get around to telling you about it until now )

They've also invited Boards.ie members to put their questions forward to keynote speakers Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist and Matt Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress. Got a question for either? Let me know below.

To enter the competition, just put your name below and why you think you'd like to attend.

The Dublin Web Summit is being held in the Ed Burke Lecture Theatre, Arts Block, Nassau Street Entrance, Trinity College Dublin - Doors open at 5:00 pm and close at 5:25 pm.

Newmark and Mullenweg, who are regular keynotes at the world's largest technology conferences, will be talking about the lessons & direct experiences in scaling their companies, which have had huge impacts on global commerce and communication. As well as providing inspiration for Irish tech start ups.

Chris Horn will reflect on his experience building succesful global companies from Ireland. He will also touch on the broader issue of innovation and Ireland, as well as prospects & opportunities for Irish entrepreneurs over the coming decade.

You can add your name to the waiting list (just to be sure) over here.

Winners will be chosen and emailed on Wednesday afternoon.

robinb

Edited: Ignore the below - I see it's on at 5pm :-( can't actually go.

YES PLEASE!

I didn't book a ticket because I didn't think I'd be in Dublin - as it turns out, now I am! Bonus!

But they're sold out - so pretty annoyed. Lots of people there I'd like to reconnect with from Seedcamp too.

CEO of Irish Web Start-up http://www.decisionsforheroes.com

-Robin.
robin.blandford@decisionsforheroes.com

IPWS

Wasn't aware of this before it booked out and as I am now migrating to a wordpress platform I would welcome the opportunity to see its founder in person and hear what he has to say.

Alan

ionapaul

I would like to attend as I've both a professional (I'm an Online Marketing professional) and personal interest in the subjects covered in the summit.

I'd love to hear Craig Newmark's keynote address in particular; I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for a few years in the early 2000s (I spent a year doing post-grad research in Berkeley and stayed!) and used Craigslist each and every day while there; I found two jobs, three apartment shares, bought and sold computers and lots more using it, and the legandary Missed Connections thread was where I whiled away many a lazy afternoon!

Santa Claus

I'd love to go.
After getting made redundant I'm studying for an IT degree by night (was in IT but having the experience and not the degree doesn't seem to cut it in Job Interviews) and studying has given me a new passion for IT but sadly not the funds to pay 100 quid for a ticket to the event.

I'd ask Matt if Wordpress have noticed any effect on the frequency of updates on peoples blogs since the popularity of Twitter has exploded....I wonder are people blogging less because they're tweeting more (pretty obvious question I know, but I'd be interested to hear his thoughts on blogs v tweets).

I'd also be interested to hear Chris Horns view on if Irish people are more cynical/suspicious of IT start-ups since the dot-com bust and mass redundancies of DELL etc.

Dara

selekta

I would love to go. I am a web professional secretly working on "the next big thing" and this could be a huge dose of inspiration that would further motivate me to stay on track.

jimkennedy

I use WordPress on my blog! I've bought stuff on Craigslist! I sent my CV to Iona!

Jim Kennedy.

ozt9vdujny3srf

I am a CS student with a big interest in web apps, and am currently actively seeking an internship for the summer in the area.

I would like to go because:

• I want to develop web apps, and I'd love to go see the people who have made the best ones. (I personally use wordpress, and feel its the nicest web app I have ever set up and used)
• Going to an event like this will hopefully make me aware of more internship opportunities for the summer.
• Like any aspiring software developer, I have visions of developing an awesome app. It'd be nice to hear from someone who knows about setting up your own venture in Ireland.
• I think it would be fun!

Dally

I'd love to go. I work in online, as an SEO. Craig Newmark and Matt Mullenweg are inspirational and I'd love to hear them speak.

I'm a huge Wordpress fan and would especially want to hear Matt Mullenweg, but Craig Newmark is absolutely facinating too.

Daragh

fergalr

Darragh wrote: »

To enter the competition, just put your name below and why you think you'd like to attend.

I'd be interested in going.

Didn't hear about this until recently, or might have picked up a ticket.
although I'm only a poor phd student :pac:

I'm researching in the areas of social networks, information diffusion etc. Im from a CS background, and have previously been involved in startups, so it'd be nice to see whats going on.

I'm not sure whether selection is random, or based on some form of merit... but I offer the Faustian deal of providing a writeup on boards if I get a free ticket... :pac:

Fergal

strandroad

I would love to go - it would be my first live web event and oh the excitement of seeing so many webbies at one place as opposed to seeing just a few faces all year round augmented by blog reading
Please count me in.

blackiebest

Darragh wrote: »

To enter the competition, just put your name below and why you think you'd like to attend..

I really would love to attend this event. I am in my 40's, father of one and former director of a construction related liquidated company. The only future I see for my wife and I is on line, my wife has a tiny commercial embroidery business for which we want to set up a merchant site. I am completely self taught regarding computers and the web and believe it to still be in its infancy regarding business. I did not know about this event but would probably have been unable to strech the €100 ticket plus travel (from the N West of Ireland). I will attend if offered the chance by you guys.

My hat is in the ring!

Blackie

Eurolanguages

I don't have a great story, I just delayed buying a ticket assuming there wouldn't be a problem. I was wrong. What an event -great speakers and excellent networking. I love events like this and Bizcamp. Real stories that give a struggling entrepreneur like me the inspiration to keep going, even when your girlfriend pays for dinner and you never leave the house.

Pretty Please.

Peter

turbot

I would also love to attend.

I'm an internet marketer in my early 30's.

Areas of interest for me include:

- Telematics / Infomatics / Ubiqutious Computing / Location Based Services.
- Web Based Education, Training and Learning
- How Social Media is changing the basis of how people make decisions
- Looking into the future and making sense of what we can anticipate based upon the frontiers of technology available today
- How savvy use of the Internet may be Ireland's best chance for long term economic recovery

Questions I'd like to ask at the Dublin Web Summit:

Wordpress & Matt Mullenweg:

- How will personal publishing evolve to make it easier for people to find and share the most relevant information, so the audience can be more productive and learned, amongst a growing mass of information ?

- How will personal publishing evolve to encourage better collaboration between thinkers / writers / leaders and harness their skills and creativity? Eg. Most Wordpress Blogs have articles and comments.... At the other end of the spectrum, there are wiki's by open teams. What is in between? What structures will wordpress enable for republishing / updating - such as articles that get better as authors tweak them based upon comments and feedback?

Craigslist & Craig Newmark:

- How will geocoding, location based services and & evolving mobile devices enable craigslist to provide more value and convenience? How are these technologies changing craigslist business model?

For both Craig and Matt:

What should modern businesses target in 2010 to position themselves for success based on where the Internet is going, and what technologies are worth knowing now? Eg: HTML5 / Google Wave / Mobile Web, etc?



I'm very passionate about the Internet and technology I'd love to attend the Dublin web summit - to meet more like minded people, share ideas and explore how our World is changing in 2010.

parmele

I'd like to go, as they may have questions for me.

http://www.jasonparmele.com

happyeveryday

Would love to attend the seminar. Hoping to start a new online venture soon, like so many others, had a tough 2009 jobs wise, and tried to the doom and gloom. Would be great to get shoulder to shoulder with a few web company guys and network.
Also currently doing a lot of research on the next wave of the internet and think this could be very appropriate for me.

Question for Craig Newmark, How important are graphics, layout and design compared to content for a new web start-up? Would Craigslist, in its current format, succeed if it launched today?

Thanks,
Rory

zAbbo

I'd planned to go, but was going to miss it due to a clash with something else - obviously tickets now sold out.

Would be nice to go and hear some wisdom from these guys, especially Matt

I'd be interested to hear how both Wordpress & Craigslist became so popular despite not being the best (Early Wordpress was a seriously flawed platform)

I will probably live tweet and blog anything that can be applied to Ireland as well.

Johnny Volume

Hi,

I would love to attend this seminar.

As well as being a part-time CS student, I am currently looking for employment. For my final year project, I am tryng to develop a Semantic Wiki application to model software users.

I reckon that this seminar would be of benefit to both my academic and professional aspirations

Thank you,
JV

LadyDotty

Hi Darragh,

Thanks for posting this opportunity.

I'd love to go to the Dublin Web Summit so I can listen and learn from these inspiring guys. Based in the Northwest of Ireland, the internet is providing enormous benefits to not-for-profit organisations (like the arts org I work in), as well as SMEs based in the region. It allows us to connect with audiences and markets and overcome any location barriers.

Firstly, I would love the opportunity to attend this event so I could take valuable information back with me to the west and share it with others at work, and via our local networks such as Open Coffee Sligo, and the Sligo Women in Business Network. I would also love the opportunity to meet some inspiring people that work within the Digital Media sector in Ireland, an area which I seem to be delving deeper into every week.
I guess listening and sharing would be the main points of my pitch!

Thanks a mill,

Ladydot

way2tall

I just like to go .. I think it is always interesting and inspirational to see how these guys build and develop world class businesses and the circumstances and factors that made them work ..

It also so happens that I am in the process of trying to build my own online business and any inspiration would help:-)

mwc

I would love love to go,
am new in my role and could do with all the help possible to keep it- the role is a trial period :eek:- so need to do all I can at the lowest budget possible , so while i had hoped to attend couldnt have justified a trip to Dublin and tickets to this.

would be a great great great boost to win the tickets!!!!!!

Driven4aLivin

I'm currently working PR and studying web design by night.I've been away so hadn't heard about this event. Looking at the speaker line up I'm literally salivating at the prospect of winning a ticket! I think soaking up the wisdom of such experts would help me greatly and I'd gladly do the chicken dance for your personal amusement, complete with out of tune humming, if I were to win!

blackiebest

So, which one of you guys won???

selekta

Just to add to my entry, I would ask Craig what part the non-design approach played in Craigslist's success and what his plans in this department are. A makeover has been discussed by designers a million times http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist_makeover Could a redesign break the spell?

Darragh

Thanks all, PMs on the way to the winners now!

Darragh

Santa Claus

Darragh wrote: »

Thanks all, PMs on the way to the winners now!

Darragh

No PM...oh well. Enjoy it whoever ends up going, should be very interesting.

For those of you that have the cash, they released another 100 tickets yesterday and there's 7 left as of now at http://dws2.eventbrite.com/ and they're €81 including the boards discount !

selekta

A bit surprising there's no announcing the winners…

Dally

No PM here.. ah well!

Congrats to the winners

fergalr

Hi,

I was fortunate enough to get a brief PM earlier today offering me a ticket, so I'm gratefully heading along.

Darragh sounded like he was extremely busy, and I think the reason there hasn't been much written on this thread is for the understandable reason that the guys at boards are run off their feet at the moment, in the wake of the security issues.

I've had a very busy day, so didn't post here earlier, but as I'm heading along now, I'll try and take some notes on things that people may find interesting. I think they are videoing most of it, so I wont be trying to take a transcript, just give a perspective on the points I find interesting, which I'll post up in this forum.

And If theres anyone that didn't go that wants to discuss the event afterwards, or info on what happened, I'll try reply in this forum also. Assuming I make it in in time...

Darragh

selekta wrote: »

A bit surprising there's no announcing the winners…

Heya, my standard practise here is to contact winners by PM, see if they can make it and if not then offer the prizes elsewhere, rather than publish and be damned, if you get me.

Saying that I'm sure I could have handled it better and I apologise for any inconvenience. We're completely snowed under with password change requests and juggling many balls. Sorry to those disappointed.

I'm in the theatre now and those joining us should just mention they've won on Boards.ie.

selekta

I wasn't very serious about it, was planning to continue with joking your friends got the tickets on Monday already, but it would've been too harsh and undeserved

Congrats to the winners and if anybody blogged about it or knows where to look for the videos – I will appreciate a link.

fergalr

fergalr wrote: »

I'll try and take some notes on things that people may find interesting. I think they are videoing most of it, so I wont be trying to take a transcript, just give a perspective on the points I find interesting, which I'll post up in this forum.

Wrote an account of this:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055821132

be curious to hear feedback on it, or discussion.