Open Coffee

Well I attended only my second ever Open Coffee event on Tuesday at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds, and it was something that I enjoyed actually. For people who don’t know, Open Coffee is an informal meeting of geeks from the local area who get together regularly to chat and hang out for a couple of hours. One thing I didn’t know was that it is a global event with Open Coffee Meetings taking place in 82 different cities from San Francisco to Sydney, although I only thought it was a Yorkshire thing until someone told me! (No Scottish ones though, may have to start the Dundee version later in the year!)

I was a little daunted before I get there as I can be shy in new situations and these events are all about meeting new people and generating conversation so I wasn’t sure how it would go. As it turned out everyone was friendly and I met a range of interesting people who spoke to me about subjects ranging from mobile web development to producing TV adverts. A few of the people that I spoke to were also there for the first time and it was good to speak to other “newbies” as I felt like less of an invader to the event.

Overall I enjoyed going along to Old Broadcasting House and will be going back again next month.