Open Coffee Ireland

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David Maher concludes people of Ireland has been talking about Opencoffee since Feburary 2007. First digital evidence of it I can find is of James Corbett asking for suggestions on where to start holding the Opencoffee Club. First Flickr pictures emerge around April 2007 taken by Topgold.

Barry Doyle writes, its pretty easy to make a list using typepads typelist function. I have created a list of Open Coffee clubs in Ireland (South & North). This was a relatively easy task. I googled for Open Coffee groups in Ireland and populated a list in typepad with links to each club. I then made a link to this list on the sidebar to the right, again using the tools available in Typepad. The proces from start to finish took 18 minutes.

https://irish.typepad.com/opencoffee/index-of-opencoffee-links.html

• Linkedin Ireland
• Open Coffee Club Ireland/XING
• Open Coffee Sligo
• Open Coffee Cork
• Open Coffee Dublin
• Open Coffee Galway
• Open Coffee Limerick
• Open Coffee Birr
• Open Coffee Clonmel
• Open Coffee Galway
• Open Coffee Kilkenny
• Open Coffee Mayo
• Open Coffee Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
• Open Coffee Drogheda
• Open Coffee Mallow Blog
• Open Coffee Waterford
• Open Coffee Belfast
• Open Coffee Coleraine
• Open Coffee Derry
• Open Coffee Lisburn
• Open Coffee Newry

Thanks to the generosity of Blacknight, we have a domain name that can be used to identify the casual meet-ups in Ireland using the term “Open Coffee”. The idea of people setting aside a few hours every fortnight comes from OpenCoffee clusters in England. In Ireland, each of the six nodes (Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford) have different styles when they meet up. This website won’t try to impose a uniform style on any of them. Instead, this website will be a group blog that pulls relevant content from information sources that support each of the six major OpenCoffee meet-ups in Ireland. The first iteration of OpenCoffee.ie will be created by a third level student at Tipperary Institute. Making the site will earn continuous assessment credit in a public relations module. And once this work is completed at the end of October 2008, the design will be signed over to a group of OpenCoffee regulars. In the meantime, feel free to subscribe to the OpenCoffee RSS feed and to contribute comments and suggestions.