Back on Wednesday 1 October we had a very successful London Wiki Wednesday meeting, combined with The British Computer Society’s London North Branch meeting . It was an interesting mixture of an audience - a full report to follow shortly. I’m pleased to note that we just seem to have continued the successful run of meetings from last year and the long break hasn’t made much difference. Initially we will be meeting once every two months until the community wants to increase the frequency.
I am delighted to announce that we have a great sponsor and a cool venue agreed for the next meeting, which will be special and the start of something new. The next London Wiki Wednesday will combine with a number of other meetups to become the first meeting of the Network of Networks. This is intended to be a regular, quarterly meeting connecting together London and South East based meetups like LWW, Mobile Mondays, Creative Coffee Club, Tuttle Club/London Social Media Cafe, London Girl Geek Dinners and any others who want to join us. The plan is to meet regularly, building up to a major “TED” style conference sometime in 2009.
For the first meeting we have a great sponsor - NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), at their London HQ - NESTA, 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE. Plough Place is located between Fetter Lane and New Fetter Lane. Nearest tubes are Chancery Lane and Farringdon. It will be on Thursday (not a Wednesday - sorry Ross!) 27 November. As well as being on a non-Wednesday, we will be starting a little earlier than usual at 16:00 going until 20:00. The focus of the meeting will be on the networking, but we’ll still have good content too. For the moment, please sign up on the wiki as usual, and look out for full details and the agenda soon.
