WordPress London Meetup
While ‘conversing’ with Phu Ly, I thought that it would be cool to organise a WordPress meetup in London. I mean why should Denmark have a meetup and the UK be left behind in this area? Now for all those of you thinking to yourself, well how good is it actually going to be? I dunno, what I will say however is that I’ve done this online to real meeting endevour once before, for the Designate Online meetup a few months ago. I didn’t know ANYONE, and everyone else seemed to know each other. I got Martina to tag along just in case I had to use her as an excuse to leave.
Turned out to be one of the best evenings/days I’ve had in a while. Just a really good bunch of people, talking all sorts of things. Got some pointers about design, talked about topics that ACTUALLY interest me, with people that understand what the IE peekaboo bug is, know what Pixelsurgeon is etc.
This would be slightly different in that most people would know if I mentioned the design in any one of these blogs. Hey I might even bring a print out of a section of what Shuttle is currently looking like.
So if you’re in the UK and you’re interested in making a day event in London, prefereably on a Saturday, add your name and tell everyone else about it as well.
So hopefully rather than ‘conversing’ with each other, we can actually TALK to each other, and generally put faces to names.
I propose the:
30th of April.
Too soon? Too late? What does everyone else think?
Yes - though I have to move house at the end of April, but I’ll watch for the day you all pick.
11/4/2005
Hmmm - 30th of April, voting is on May 5th it’s a tricky one. Stay inside playing with CSS code that I don’t understand or meet up with anonymous strangers to get drunk…er…you are drinking right? Ok I’ll try and keep this post short, I have difficult in wrirting short posts as you can probably tell by now.
Friend tried this with UK demo sceners, and we didn’t end up going. Thing is, I’ve always felt a bit odd going to a place where 90% know each other, and then 10% drift off. If this does happen, if enough people turn up then it could be a laugh I guess. There’s always an air of strangeness about meeting up with people that you don’t actually know.
It’s certainly food for thought so I’ll keep an eye on this post - 70% of me says great idea, I need to drink, 30% what if they turn me into a website?
Tough choices.
11/4/2005
“I might even bring a print out of a section of what Shuttle is currently looking like.”
If anybody needed a reason, then this’ll be it:-) Seriously speaking though, it’ll be a informal way just for everyone to meet up, hopefully find and talk about stuff that’ll interest us all and of course, finally attach a face to our pseudonyms:-)
Podz/Khaled,
Would it be a good idea to suggest this to the WP support forum?
12/4/2005
I tried for some reason the decided to actually close the thread. Why is that Podzy?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=30518
12/4/2005
I don’t know … probably to take an OT topic out of the forum ?
I’m up for it though, so I’ll post. I’ll mention in on #irc too.
Venue ?
12/4/2005
30 of April sounds good… where will the meetup take place?
I can propose a couple of places if you want….
12/4/2005
Hopefully not Canary Wharf or the city for the same price as a pint you can buy a car or two…from a used car salesman in some unknown war torn country
12/4/2005
LOL, honestly I’m thinking something more Covent Garden based, or even around the Angel area…
12/4/2005
Tube - easy to get to on the Tube.
I’ll be in by Coach (not sure where it drops) so easy to find on the Tube is essential)
13/4/2005
well covent garden has it’s own stop, plus you can get off at pic and several other stations in the area. guess you could check out the street entertainment and through copies of WP at the clowns…
13/4/2005
I’m looking forward to it.
You boys let me know when you have my ticket bought :)
Why can’t anyone else Wordpress in Arkansas?
14/4/2005
I do not know if I can get there but my gut feeling is that this is a really great idea and Kudos to Khaled for organising it. I suppose the worse thing that could happen is that he could end up nursing a pint on his own like a sad old git :). Somehow tho I dont think so. The Texans are always at this caper and there is one getting started in Paris. I think it would be a gas. A venue with beer at one pound a pint might suit all budgets :). And maybe a daytime ?
16/4/2005
Has there been any more interest expressed ? Do we have a venue ?
25/4/2005
I think we’ve agreed to postpone it, at least for now, but let’s try and make it happen:)
29/4/2005