At the end of BarCamp, I was in a terrible rush to get packed up because I had to go get Meg and Jake and I couldn’t head out to the pub and do the whole post-BarCamp social thing. I hate missing the post-mortems – I loved them when I was organising Q-CON 1-3 back in the day and liked contributing to the post-Q-CON parties (which ended up with three or four people arguing the toss in a kitchen in studentland).
Guys – let’s have an update on CoWorking Belfast? I’d like to go through the details of the business plan I previously worked on and see what’s still applicable. I think this could be bigger (and, frankly, could be BarCamp every day).
Honestly, theres nothing. It’s in funding-nightmare-limbo right now, but we’re assured we will have something to go on by the end of the week.
I know but I’d still be interested in knowing what are the nightmares? What are the blocks here? Who do we need to lobby? How many people have signed up versus how many people expressed interest?
The council (read: Brendan McGoran) need to draw up some documents and prepare to ask us questions on what they’ll need to see from us in return for the money. They’re also talking to Invest NI about spliting and therefore matching the funding if they think the project is under their remit to support. Once we hear from Brendan, we’ll know if we’re getting the finacial support we need, then we can concurrently work on completing that paperwork and getting the space up and running and filled with coworkers.
and plans for taking this beyond ‘Belfast’?
Like Bangor? 🙂
Like Dublin. London. Frankfurt. Tokyo.