London Calling - 9th Sept - Idea Store, Canary Wharf

[Richy_Rich]

We've provisionally booked the Idea Store to host the London
CocoaDevHouse event at Canary Wharf, on Saturday the 9th Sept.

That's here ->

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&search_result=&db=pc&cidr_client=none&lang=&keepicon=true&pc=E145RB&advanced=&client=public&addr2=&quicksearch=e14+5rb&addr3=&addr1=

This is how it looks from space ->

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=E14+5RB&ie=UTF8&ll=51.504382,-0.013765&spn=0.003292,0.011995&t=k&om=1

The t-shirt makers are on standby, waiting for the artwork and the task
of sorting out the infrastructure we need (wi-fi, coffee etc.) is
underway.

So, what else do we need?

* Ideas of numbers - who's coming, who's not?
* Ideas for Friday night (for those of you who'll be around) -
unfortunately the Idea Store won't let us camp there overnight (if
anyone knows of anywhere that will let me know)
* Ideas for content. We've had a couple of suggestions of things to
build, we could start work on these or we could pitch in on some open
source projects. Would anyone like to give a talk/presentation? Any
other ideas?

[Blake Burris]

Here's some "about" info if you need for local blogging:

http://cocoadevhouse.org/blog/about/

[Stam Kapetanakis]

Hi,

Thanks for organising the event!
I'll probably be able to make it for once - roughly what time is this
going to start?

Stam

[Abizern]

I'm almost certainly going to be able to make it.

l'll bring along an AirPort Express - we might be able to use it to
boost the wi-fi reception.

--
Abizer

[Richy_Rich]

Keep your eyes peeled. There may be a change of venue coming up... If
anything gets confirmed I'll mail everyone and update the wiki etc.

Ideally we'd like it to start sometime on Friday evening and then run
all day Saturday (from say 9/10 in the morning until we're all fed up
and want to go home) you should be able to turn up anytime then. I'll
make sure full details are circulated prior to the event and I'll mail
around some contact numbers as well.

Cheers,

Richy

[Nik Fletcher]

RSVP on Upcoming.Org:
http://upcoming.org/event/103290

What is still needed? And will there be any sort of collaboration with
CDHTexas? It would be great if we could possibly catch what's going on
over there (timezone permitting).

I'll certainly be bringing a camera for Flickr duties (I can feel some
sort of mocking about 'dedication' there!), and of course a copy of the
Hillegass (and Wrox just for completeness).

BTW, if you add the following tag to any Flickr photos of CDHLondon,
they'll be brought into the Upcoming page.

upcoming:event=103290

-Nik

[Richy_Rich]

Right, here's the deal thus far.

T-Shirts are being printed or pressed or whatever you call it.

Ron is sorting out video, he's looking for bandwidth (not sure exactly
what he needs) but we should be sorted.

Definitley looking to do a link up with CDH Texas esp. if we get the
video sorted, we'll stick my spare iBook to one side as a general
IRC/Skype/etc. client if nothing else.

Flickr, you've got covered by the looks of it :) We can sort more of
this next week.

Venue. Idea Store is still booked. However it's not ideal due to the
time constraints they put on the room. I've found an alternative, but
the guy I was talking to was off today, hopefully we can get something
confirmed on Monday. The new place will be in Covent Garden which is a
bit more central and will be available for us Friday evening/Saturday
'till late, so is better from that point of view (they also have a
canteen and stuff). Idea Store only requires 48 hours notice to cancel
so that shouldn't be a problem. We'll just have to make extra sure we
tell everyone :)

The rest, I suppose is up to everyone on the day(s) we can hammer out a
bit more content either here on the wiki if we want to be structured
about it, or just turn up and hack like monkeys. I personally think
it's going to rock!

Cheers,

Richy

[Nik Fletcher]

Sounds great Richy,

I'll email everyone on the WiKi and ask that they RSVP to Upcoming.org (just to get a rough number) if you like.

Hope to hear about the venue (and if it changes) soon.

Nik

[Nik Fletcher]

I'll bring a headset and some speakers if we need them (is anyone giving a presentation)?

Are we actually going to be able to hook up with CDHTexas? Idea Store is only open 9am to 5pm and that might scupper any real collaboration...

-Nik

P.S. I've got the poster ready and will place it on Flickr later tonight. -N

[Stam Kapetanakis]

5 pm?

That sounds a bit early...

What time is the meet?

/Stam