Mini-Woodstock moment at OCC Limerick
Aug 11th 2007NiaLLLarkinUncategorized
Along with many others I’ve been struggling to come to terms with the mini-Woodstock moment we experienced during OCC Limerick this week.
I’ve reposted some snippets below to give some idea the reaction to the event, but can’t really capture the moment.
Still, if you missed it you can watch the video of the livestream and read the comments that were coming in from remote viewers like myself.
I even got to ask the Collison brothers about the percentages involved in the equity deal offered by YCombinator and got a great fully rounded answer.
But no moment, personal or otherwise or combination of moments can adequately describe the frission we all felt during and after the event.
And it had nothing to do with typical techie excitement over ‘the amazing things made possible by technology’ but had everthing to do with pure and simple chemical buzz that can happen in the living moment in a group.
09.1254 Eoghan McCabe: “OCC Limerick video (+plus Twitter, Jaiku) stream was spine-tinglingly good. I felt genuinely connected from a couple hundred miles away.”
10.0939 Walter Higgins: “still buzzing from yesterday’s opencoffee limerick. Must try to attend next one in person.”
Conor O’Neill — “Blog post on today’s game-changing Limerick OCC.”
This is pure gold - a deep inside view into moving to the Valley and making something happen.
I’ve been quite dismissive of the whole PodTech/Scoble thing, finding it boring and echo-chambery, but what happened this morning is genuine new-media. Useful, informative, entertaining, interactive, fun!
Well done LOCC guys, you’ve just upped the bar for everyone. Bernie is 100% right when he says “This is mainstream“:
Jame’s Corbett @eirepreneur trying to come to terms with the moment
I read Conor’s blog post on Conn’s mobile phone… trying to digest what I’d just witnessed, both first hand in the Brainbox boardroom and virtually through the video stream…among the group of us interacting with a slew of remote viewers from all around Ireland and internationally from places like Boston via Twitter, Jaiku and Conn’s Ustream chat room.
Final word to John Kennedy, who set up the wi-fi (and I have it from Bernie Goldbach an exceptionally nice guy)
The buzz is infectious, I leave OpenCoffee on an absolute high, it’s my fortnightly battery recharge, yesterday was incredible.
Well done guys.
