Thanks to everyone who showed up yesterday! The tech meetup last night went great. We had a group of about 50 people all interested in technology, talking about technology. Even though there were many startuppers and some investors in the crowd, the business chat was to the minimum...
The two demos were great too. Tom Griffiths from Hubdub gave a quick run through of their very popular website and some insight into prediction markets. Matt Aylett from Cereproc also gave a great demo of their Speech Synthesis software and how it can mimic George Bush as well as generate West Bromwich accents.
Special thanks goes to Andrew Mitchell, Colin Adams, and the University of Edinburgh for letting us use their space, and sponsoring the Pizza and Beer... The space on the eighth floor of Appleton Tower was actually very well liked by everyone.
I know many people couldn't make it to this event because of the short notice. I will do a more detailed post about what went on soon. But if you are interested in coming and meeting all sorts of cool techies, just drop us a line...
Friday 5 September 2008
Wednesday 3 September 2008
First Tech Meetup in Edinburgh - Sept 4th 7pm
I hear networking is important, but networking sounds like waiters with trays of finger food and paper napkins. Ian Hogarth wrote about "Hackers Need Friends Too!" (http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/08/21/hey-hackers-need-friends-too/ )
So the first meetup on September 4th is to see what people think and what we can do to make an easily accessible and friendly community of tech minds, skills and startups around Scotland and connecting with London. We're hoping to have a meetup maybe every month and to find a way to connect with Ian's meetup in London (and other cities as they start).
So come along at 7pm to 8th Floor of Appleton Tower (Edinburgh Uni).
The response so far has been really encouraging. Thanks to Sam Collins for setting this up, Andrew Mitchell and Edi Uni for sponsoring it and Ian Hogarth for the support.
on TechCrunch UK, and we've decided to do what they do in London: get all the developers, tech heads, and tech startups together and build a functional community.
This gives everyone a community where we can learn from each other, hear what's going on around us, demo some stuff, and really try and bring together the wealth of tech talent we
have in Scotland and of course, enlighten others who may be interested.This gives everyone a community where we can learn from each other, hear what's going on around us, demo some stuff, and really try and bring together the wealth of tech talent we
So the first meetup on September 4th is to see what people think and what we can do to make an easily accessible and friendly community of tech minds, skills and startups around Scotland and connecting with London. We're hoping to have a meetup maybe every month and to find a way to connect with Ian's meetup in London (and other cities as they start).
So come along at 7pm to 8th Floor of Appleton Tower (Edinburgh Uni).
The response so far has been really encouraging. Thanks to Sam Collins for setting this up, Andrew Mitchell and Edi Uni for sponsoring it and Ian Hogarth for the support.
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