This Friday we will be having a blogwalk in Amsterdam (the eleventh such edition) and I am happy to be participating.

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Just to remind you, this Friday is the second iteration of Open Beer Delft.

The event will be at the same place and start at 18.15 this time (15 minutes later). See you there?

See the Upcoming event that Eelke created.

Yesterday the first Open Beer in Delft took place and it was something of a succes. Turnout may have been low with five people attending but new people were met and interesting conversations took place.

I talked to Redmar Kerkhoff who I already knew from a previous Barcamp Amsterdam and who also studies at DUT. Redmar is all over the place and we talked about graphics programming, intelligent devices, Ruby on Rails and Erlang.
I also got to talk with our other attendee Bart, who has a website (Where was it at again?) and who installed the wireless network at De Plataan.

A lot of people either could not make it today or were otherwise detained but that is not a loss to the format as there is enough interesting stuff to talk about with the people who were there. I didn’t even get to talk to Reinier because he had to leave early.

So let’s see what this grows into with some consistent attention. Next edition is next Friday and will probably start some 15 minutes later.

If you guys have any websites of yourself that you want to plug or have anything to add, put it in the comments.

Following the tradition set by the OpenCoffee meetings in London and Amsterdam, we thought Delft with its large amount of technical professionals and web agencies could use something similar.

Now with summer approaching, I think we can take it outside by doing an Open Beer event to close off the week. So the plan is to take an hour between 18.00 and 19.00 on Friday as the first stop of your weekend. We’ll meetup, have a beer or two and discuss anything that comes to mind.

Who? Web professionals and independents who want to be connected.

Where? Trappistenlokaal het Klooster (Google Map), a bit small but with a decent beer collection, WiFi and a nice outside area.

When? Every Friday from 18.15 until 19.15.

Stay informed Join the Open Coffee Delft Google group for regular announcements on the next event.

We’re going to make this a regular event (as per the Open Coffee format) so if you cannot make one occasion there is always a next. Sustainability is not so much of an issue, as it is only one hour of your time and one of us will probably always be there.

Sign up here or on Upcoming. Spreading the word and bringing along interesting people is very much appreciated.