There will be a meetup tonight for all bloggers or anyone with interest in blogging at Rooty’s in the Custard Factory this evening at around 6pm kick off and heading on in to the night. Usually plenty of drinking and chatting so if you haven’t been to one before please come and show your face. It is all very friendly and great for meeting likeminded people.
Birmingham’s now been picked as the location for the UK’s first WordCamp conference, a gathering of writers, developers and fans who all use the WordPress blogging platform.
More details can be found at uk.wordcamp.org and the WordCamp UK blog, setup by my own fair hands. This will quite likely make the agenda for the next bloggers’ meetup, whose Facebook group always has a fair amount of lurkers, so working on the same principle the blog and its accompanying podcast - which will go live when the time is right - should hopefully provide some useful accounts for those who aren’t able or are too cool to attend.
A bunch of us met yesterday at the Goose in Selly Oak, so big thanks to Si Hammond for suggesting when and where.
It was essentially a pissup, much in the vein of the second “official” meetup back in February. I met some new faces: those faces do have names however I’m in no fit state to remember them. I enjoyed shaking hands with some interesting people with intriguing ideas, and look forward to hearing more from them after shoving business cards into sweaty palms. Sorry Pete.
One bonus however, we got to see Chris Unitt’s ASBO, so well done that man.
Here’s my videodump comprising some of the night’s “highlights”.
Yesterday, March 31st saw us at Rooty Fruity’s in the Custard Factory discussing, in the main the idea of coworking. You can check out the video of the discussion at Andrew Dubber’s Viddler page and read Pete Ashton’s roundup of the event.
Also on the table were the results of the AWM-sponsoured trip to SXSWi, more of which can be found at South by South West Midlands, and answers to the question “how do we bring social media technologies to non-geeks?”
Kitchen Garden Café in Kings Heath was the meeting ground for likeminded individuals linked by their common interest in blogging and social media. On Thursday 10 January 2008, Nick Booth (Podnosh) arranged for the informal gathering with no agenda but to discuss blog writing, share knowledge and to build a community of blog writers around the Birmingham area. Some of the individuals that I met there were Dave Briggs, Stef Lewandowski (3form, Creative Republic, Type Records), Charlotte Carey (Creative Enterprise), Jon Bounds (Birmingham: It’s Not Shit, UpYerBrum), John Mostyn and Nick Booth amongst others who unfortunately I did not take URL’s from, sorry!
