Yesterday it was time for another OpenCoffee meetup, and just like last week I really hated the new location. Besides feeling pushed away in a dark corner of the 5th floor of a Waterstones bookstore, I had the urge to push the horrible coffee through the throats of the cafe employers. I am looking if the Starbuck at Leicester Square could host the OpenCoffee in the future as they have a lot of space in the back and obviously they serve some nice coffee.

This week’s meetup was extremely interesting. Besides the usual suspects there were a lot of PRs, lots of people with great ideas looking for developers, and many people who were extremely interesting for me as an educational podcaster. One of these was Dean Whitbread from the UK Podcasters association who do a lot of good work for Podcasters in the UK, raising awareness and defending their rights. I am still doubting to join (£3 a month) but if teachr.tv really starts rolling I think it is a no-brainer.

I had another interesting conversation with Phil from PhilsMathsPage who is doing a simple website to explain basic math principles (nice new link for teachr.tv). I met Phil via Amir Amirani who is a documentary producer/director. I didn’t happen to know his work (shame on me?) but we got talking about some of his ideas, my podcast, and the current state of the web. We will be talking a bit more this weekend, about educational podcasting, development and some of his ideas.

The last link I want to point out for now is GBOB who are launching their 4th World’s Biggest Live Championship of popular music. They don’t offer that much info about where, how, and when the next edition is, but I know that they are planning live coverage of the 24 hour around the world event.

This entry was posted on Friday, May 18th, 2007 at 16:51 and is filed under London, OpenCoffee, event.