We had a good couple of hours in the Clarion on Thursday, 3rd September.
New faces included Hilary Mc Partland from Sligo Chamber of Commerce, Ciara Walsh – a M.Sc student if Sligo IT and Davide Gallazzi of North West Environmental.
We kicked off with the discussions around forming a book club – with a lot of thoughts from people on the practicalities and time associated – shame on us all for not making more time to read.
In the end, we decided that for the next event – people should bring a couple of their favourites (business, design, entrepeneurship, etc related) and pitch as to why they think the group would find their choices interesting – we will then choose a book and hopefully many will take the time out to read and discuss for the next meeting.
We did put Hilary from the Sligo Chamber on the spot a little by asking her to tell us more about the Chamber, their internal working groups and membership benefits. Even though she has only been with the organisation just over a month, Hilary was able to give a great heads-up on their current activities and aims – and Feargus was able to chip in with his own experiences over the past few years.
We also talked a little about North West Connects but were conscious that a planning meeting is coming up on tuesday next; An interesting aside was that Sligo Chamber also seem to see the benefit of making contact with North West natives – now resident in Dublin – for a meetup that is taking place there later this month; North West Connects are also doing the same with the possiblity of inviting some speakers home for the weekend of the conference.
There was a lively discussion around realising ideas for online products and services using sweat equity – Justin is a good guy to speak with if you are interested in developing and chatting about this concept.
Last AND very much least – the straw poll of the 8 people remaining at 1pm to the question “NAMA – Yes or No” - 7 No’s to 1 Yes
Thanks to all for attending and sharing your views and opinions -next meetup will be Thursday, 1st October.
