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We are going up to BarCamp Ireland 3 in Dublin tomorrow. Looking forward to see interesting presentations and meet people active in startups, technology and social media.

But that brings up a question - where to stay? If traveling from Galway to Dublin for an event like this it makes sense to stay overnight in Dublin. But all the places are either booked out or insanely priced (for student budget at least).

This reminds me about a very cool project - "Can I Crash?".

Quote: ... is a project of toothless tiger initiated by Henriette Weber Andersen - who basically is a young female who is tired of busting her entrepreneurial budget when there is things ( dinners, conferences, vacations) in other countries ( or cities) she wants to attend.

So this young female is thinking that if she opens her house to fellow bloggers ( after following the guidelines) when they are looking for a place to stay in Copenhagen or Denmark - maybe some other bloggers will open their house to her ( or other bloggers again) in other countries - that's the idea. This is how we are going to try out if it works in practice.

A quick look of the site shows that fellow bloggers may help you out if you are going to San Francisco and other places in the US. Europe is much less represented, e.g., in France it's only Lyon and in Ireland - in Limerick and Wicklow. Dublin's not on the list, though.

Can someone in Dublin offer a place to stay overnight this Saturday night? Actually, this post probably came to be too late to help us but this initiative is good to spread a word about anyway. We should put Galway on its list, too. What do you think?