OpenCoffee Leeds {Uno}

Opencoffee_leedsWow. Yesterday’s inaugural OpenCoffee Leeds got a turnout of twenty-seven people, much higher than I hoped and enough diversity for a palpable buzz in the room! Starbucks was kind enought to let us use a small meeting room, but with so many attendees, OpenCoffee rapidly filled the first floor of Leeds’ largest Starbucks 🙂

The rich blend </groan> of students, entrepreneurs, academics, investors, developers and artists included…

Andy  related that everyone who I bumped into, the verdict was very
positive. That’s what I like about these things – nobody thinks there
will be interest, someone takes a risk, and lo & behold, it turns
out there are plenty of people looking for community. So
congratulations.’
{Uno} also got a shout out on a couple attendee blogs –
Inaugural OpenCoffee Leeds and Northern Grit and coffee make a good mix.

Ian Pringle, Gang Lu, the Plusnet guys and I broke off for a separate meeting to discuss how we can bring our collective experience to help creat a sustainable tech ecosphere across the five major cities of the North.

An interesting side discussion between Tom, Ben and Steve led to a ‘games corner’ as attendees related their interests in the local videogames ecosphere.

All in all, a great start – I hope we can sustain the momentum for next month’s event as we build up to BarCamp Leeds later this Summer…

{ Flickr photos here… }

Comments

4 responses to “OpenCoffee Leeds {Uno}”

  1. Tom Scott Avatar

    Thanks for running OCL, Imran – it was a great event and I’m glad I made the journey over.
    (it’s thomasscott.net, by the way, not .com… something I’m still a little bitter about!)

  2. Citizen Liz Avatar
    Citizen Liz

    mmm I’m not suprised that there are no girls listed here, but next time I may drag myself and another glam chick down there – we have brains too, beneath the startling good looks. We were the first to get Imran to use ghd straighteners. Can’t wait for some coffee and cake action, yeah!

  3. Caius Durling Avatar

    I might have to swap my tuesday shift with another day so I can come to these events. They sound really great, many props for organising them.

  4. Imran Ali Avatar

    That’s great Caius – see you next Tuesday 🙂

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