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.
great! it will be much easier to find out what is happening and when. i've heard about the opencoffee events, but didn't get a chance to attend one myself. looking forward to finding out the places and dates of upcoming events... as well as the sites of each of the local groups.
Posted by: heather | September 05, 2008 at 09:14 AM
You might also add www.opencoffeeclublimerick.com to the list.
Posted by: Evert Bopp | January 09, 2009 at 01:00 PM
We have an Open Coffee event planned for Sligo!!
Please add http://opencoffeesligo.org/ to your list when you can :)
Thank you!
Posted by: Heather James | March 11, 2009 at 08:36 PM
Hi,
Is there an Open Coffee meeting anywhere in the Kildare area?
Posted by: Lydia Dunlop | July 06, 2009 at 04:34 PM
We have launched Open Coffee in Naas & Maynooth. Can we get listed please?
Contact anthea@awaken.ie
Posted by: Anthea | July 20, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Hi All... check out the brand new West Cork Open Coffee (Beta ;-)) at http://www.westcorkopencoffee.com... would be great to get a link / listing here when you get chance.
Cheers,
Calvin!
Posted by: twitter.com/WriterCJ | September 22, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Gah! That URL picked up the spurious ... at the end... so it doesn't work! Try this one http://www.westcorkopencoffee.com
Posted by: twitter.com/WriterCJ | September 22, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Open Coffee Mallow was launched in June 2009 and running well. PLease see http://opencoffeemallow.wordpress.com for details.
Cheers,
Elaine
Posted by: Elaine Rogers | December 06, 2009 at 04:00 PM
There is an Open Coffee in the Kildare area http://opencoffeeclubnaasmaynooth.blogspot.com . We meet in Naas and Maynooth every second week. It would be great if we could get listed here.
Cheers,
Anne
Posted by: Anne | February 24, 2010 at 12:24 PM