Friday Night: Chaos Thaoghaire

Chaos Thaoghaire at WordCamp

We’re delighted to announce that the delightful Chaos Thaoghaire will be at WordCamp, bringing their bewildering combination of parlour games, judge bribing, story telling, and general mayhem to Langton’s on Friday night.

According to the website,

Chaos Thaoghaire is a live event that features personal stories interspersed with team games. Your hosts are The Chaosettes, a duo drunk on their insatiable desire for power and popularity. The stories are all true (or truthy), and the Google-proof games reward cunning, flippancy, wordplay, underhandedness and generally favour the sort of person who would never be allowed on a table quiz team.

Of course it’s confusing. They didn’t call it Organised And Perfectly Straightforward Thaoghaire, did they? They’d have been sued for sure, and while they’re fine when in front of their own crowd, they always break down in front of a judge. All you need to know is that The Chaosettes live by a belief in the earnest pursuit of ludicrous things.

According to the Irish Times, “It’s as if the Golden Girls were running a bingo night in a mental asylum where everybody had the wrong medication.” How could you not want a piece of that?

To join in the fun, just add your name in the comments here. This event is free of charge, and kicks off at 8 PM on Friday, March 5th in the Tea Room at Langtons. Let the hijinx begin!

WordCamp Ireland Dinner

saturday Night Dinner at WordCamp
On Saturday night, WordCamp is hosting a dinner at Langton’s for all campers who wish to attend. The cost of this dinner is not included in you ticket price and is totally optional; if you wish to attend, you need to book your dinner ticket plus any for friends, partners, kids etc when you book your ticket.

UPDATE: If you tried to book extra tickets and could not, you can now order those here. Apologies for a broken checkout that is now fixed.

This will be a three-course sit-down dinner with open seating. The food will be gorgeous but this is not a formal do at all; come in your jeans and your favourite “No I Will Not Fix Your Computer” t-shirt if you like. It’s just a chance to get to chat and break bread with more of the people from WordCamp, plus we’re totally over-organised and the thought of 200 hungry people wandering the streets of Kilkenny gives us hives. Kids are welcome and children under 12 are free.

Optionally, if this is not your thing, people will be gathering in the bar at Langton’s for Pub & Grub that night, and the dinner guests will be decamping to there after dinner, so that’s perfectly convivial eating and drinking option as well.

Time: 7:30 – 10:30 PM

Image ©Kevin Dooley

Friday Night: Speakers & Sponsors

Speakers & Sponsors

We’ll be welcoming (and thanking) all of our speakers and sponsors who’ve made it down to Kilkenny in time with a private dinner at Langton’s on Friday night. The setting (and the food) will be very nice indeed but this is not a formal do by any means. Wear what you like – if you’re jetlagged, you can stumble downstairs in your PJs and we’ll be happy to see you (and give you coffee.)

We’ll be getting firm numbers for this event as we confirm speakers. You can bring your kids; we’ll be asking you about that as well.  Dinner will kick off at about 7:30 or 8 and we’ll update with details as the schedule firms up. Thanks!