Entrepreneurial Geekiness
Entrepreneurial Geekiness
Ian is a London-based independent Chief Data Scientist who coaches teams, teaches and creates data products. More about Ian here.
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£5 App write-ups
[Edit – this follows on from the announce post here: Great Inaugral Night post]
Both Simon (Geek dinners) and Jane have write-ups from our first evening and Jane very kindly took photos for us. Here are John and myself:
and there are more here and here.
“Inspirational Entrepreneurial Geekiness”:
“Having been to the excellent first £5 app (i.e. writing an app in evenings and weekends) evening yesterday, I spent a couple of hours tonight on my effort.”
“Lots of discussion was generated, and both speakers had plenty of questions to answer – they both did well and neither seemed particularly stumped by any of them.”
Thanks to Jane and Danny for the photos, and Jane and Simon for the neat write-ups 🙂
£5 App – Great Inaugral night :-)
Great stuff! Our first £5 App night ran smoothly, we had 22 people listening to our two £5 App talks. We’ve been planning this for exactly a month now and it was great to see it run so well. It seems that the free beer was a hit and the building itself lent itself beautifully to the event 🙂
John spoke for 30 minutes on Chrss (html slides) and fielded questions on TurboGears. I spoke on ShowMeDo (html slides)- the latter half of my talk was a reflection on our experiences aimed at others who want to build their own £5 App.
Matthew kicked off an interesting thread – should you run lots of £5 Apps in parallel or just concentrate on the one? Kyran and I say Stick With The One That Works lest you split your time too many ways and you become ineffective. Matthew suggested building lots of apps and letting time work in your favour – one of them is bound to win out. Interesting thoughts…anyone care to comment?
Great to see John, Jane, Richard, Simon, Matt, Kev, Colin, Kyran, Manuela, Dan, Emmet and the usual suspects. Thanks to Danny and Ben at HoboInternet for the great venue. ShardCore brought along 4 pieces of neat geek art, you’ll see them in the photos (to come).
Danny and I got talking in the pub about running a workshop on this – more of an interactive session (and less presentational) where those-that-have-done-it can talk to those-that-want-to-do-it. More on this once we’ve had a think about it.
Pictures and presentations to follow. Two more events are planned, a fourth is tentative, we’re open to suggestions for speakers. Note – the slides for both presentations were made with the excellent and free S5.
[Update – John has photos and Danny has a whole stack in Flickr.]
[Update – Jane has a whole set of photos over at Flickr.]
13 Brunswick Sq – The Front Door
Danny sent me this link for tonight’s £5 App meetup. 13 Brunswick Sq has no door number or obvious buzzer so, in the spirit of ‘a picture is worth 1000 words’:
£5 App at Brunswick Square
Our £5 App evening (Tuesday March 27th 8pm) gathers pace. John and I went for a visit to the very cool venue at 13 Brunswick Square (beige door, see Update at bottom of this entry):
The building is perfect – it has exactly the right atmosphere for a startup event. John and I shall provide the beer, we’ll talk for an hour or so on ShowMeDo and Chrss then we’ll decamp to the pub. ShardCore will provide half a dozen pieces of art and we’ll all have a fab evening 🙂
The next two events are coming along nicely – Raj and Alan will talk on Social Apps next then we have Andy White and perhaps Dan talking on Rails apps for the third. Do you know someone who’d like to present at a future event?
[Update we are listed on O’Reilly’s GMT events site – see the right side-bar for March 27th]
[Update 13 Brunswick Sq has no street number but the door is a very obvious beige colour. You need the bell marked ‘office’.]
Hanging the Kittens
Shardcore’s greatest piece – the Electromechanical kittens (of pure and unstoppable evil) – now hangs on my wall. This piece is a follow-up to his earlier Mechanical kittens. I am a happy man.
Next week Shardcore exhibits a selection of his work at our first £5 App meet. Woot!
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