Last Thursday I went to London’s OpenCoffee Club Meetup. OpenCoffee is organized by Saul Klein and is basically a weekly social meeting in a local StarBucks . It was started here in London in March and since then the concept has been spread around the world in more than 30 other places including Amsterdam.

As this was my first time at OpenCoffee I was totally unprepared as I was the only person in his t-shirt. Even worse was the fact that I forgot my Moo-cards so I couldn’t spread the word about FourStarters and teachr.tv (more about this soon). Luckily most other people did bring theirs and I managed to keep in contact with them.

One of the most interesting people I spoke with (and strangely also the first ones) were the guys behind Yuuguu. Yuuguu is a cool desktop sharing program that has a lot of potential and I think it might even be interesting in an educational context, so expect something in the teachr.tv podcast soon. I also had a nice word with David Terrar who (next to running a very interesting blog) is the only Brit I ever met that knows Frankwatching.

Funny enough I was not the only Dutch person there as I met the guys behind Meganova (Dutch incubator) and The Next Web Conference (more on this later, too). Standing next to Boris and Arjen Schat I did feel more and more out of the ordinary in my t-shirt. I will definitely go more often now but next time I will definitely go in suit. Anyone joining me next Thursday?

This entry was posted on Saturday, April 21st, 2007 at 18:59 and is filed under OpenCoffee, business, event, networking.