Hello all,
Following on from an earlier post – allow me to tell you a story…
It started as a simple question ‘Hey, we both live in London, do you fancy a drink sometime?’
That question was asked from one avid Jaiku fan to another.
(Yours truly and a guy named Romek)
From there – it snowballed…
We found a channel on Jaiku specifically for UK Jaiku users – called JaikUK
Then – upon finding that channel – I decided that’d be a great idea if we had a Facebook Group too.
And so Mobile Geeks of London was born…
It was, at first, made as a ‘base of operations’ if you will for me and a few fellow ‘mobilists’ who I knew lived in and around our great city to come together and chat…
And then, word got out that two of the members were meeting for a beer.
“Sod it!” I thought “Why not make it a full-blown facebook event?!”
And so I did.
Next thing I knew – SMS Text News picked up on it and ran it as a story – and overnight the group went from around 10 members to 110!
The Date: Thursday 26th July
The Event: The first ever Mobile Geeks of London meet up
The Place: A Pub in London
The Attendees: Mobile Geeks!
It. Was Great.
The whole evening had this kind of unofficial theme of ‘Show & Tell’
Some folk were there showing off new software – some other folk were throwing new mobile ideas around and some folk were just showing off their various handsets… an iPhone even made it along!
Hehehe…
However, I must admit, I think that was probably the main lure for peeps coming along in the first place!
Everyone wanted to touch it!
Hehehe – Here’s some photos from the evening folks – enjoy!
Geeks – Phones – Beer – Heaven
James Body. He of Truphone fame.
With my iPhone and his E61i.
Which one do you prefer?
My new friend Peter (aka Romek).
He was the guy that originally asked me out for a Mobile Geek drink!
It’s all his fault I swear it!
iPhone-tastic!
All in all the night was a resounding success and I’ve received lots of messages of praise for organising it all.
I couldn’t have done it without my good friend Technokitten who was on hand to offer assistance when the whole thing started getting a bit out of hand!
So – if you’re a Mobile Geek and you live in London – why not join the group and maybe we’ll see you at the next meet!
🙂
Is that the Glassblower in london by any change?