The launch of the first Open Coffee Mallow took place on Tuesday, July 7th 2009 at Springfort Hall, north of Mallow town.
The next OCC Mallow meeting is Tuesday, 4th August 10am, Springfort Hall
As it turned out, the location was a perfect choice. People commented that they actually began to relax driving up the entrance surrounded by beautiful mature trees and perfectly maintained gardens. Springfort Hall also provided everything we needed on the day, including a last minute request for a projector screen.
We were greeted very early in the morning by the wonderful Roland Steinmetz of Shared Visions, who so generously offered to try out an innovative streaming of the meeting on-line so that people could join in “virtually”. The concept was interesting and fun, but an adequate broadband connection is required and we just weren’t “up to speed” so to speak.
However, there was great interest in what he was doing from the other attendees, and we are proud to be the first attempt of Roland’s new #vocc (virtual open coffee club). It will be run again at the (more…)
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