{"id":1789,"date":"2009-02-19T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2009\/02\/19\/cambridge-uk-open-coffee\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:43:39","slug":"cambridge-uk-open-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge -UK &#8211; Open Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coffee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coffee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jed at OpenCoffee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just back from the inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/opencoffee.ning.com\/\">OpenCoffee<\/a> meet up in Cambridge, UK. Organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jedchristiansen.com\/2009\/02\/15\/announcing-opencoffee-club-in-cambridge\/\">Jed<\/a>. The event was in Cafe Nero on Kings Parade in Cambridge. A total of about 20 folks (Only two from the fairer sex, Juliette and ? Laura where did you get too!)\u00a0 turned up. I was, of cause, easily the oldest there!<\/p>\n<p>It was a good turn out of VC&#8217;s, Angels and entrepreneurs with a lot of new faces to prove that the Cambridge scene is still as vibrant as ever. I met Chris from <a href=\"http:\/\/audioanalytic.com\/\">audioanalytic<\/a>, Adriano? of <a href=\"http:\/\/hotprints.com\/\">Hotprints<\/a>, Peter from Broadersheet plus Laurence &amp; Alex.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty ideal for a first event and actually worked very well in the regular coffee shop environment (apart from getting told to sit down once by the baristas). I quite like the slightly anarchic nature of the event compared to the regular structured evenings that are the norm around here, and it works better than in a pub type environment in my opinion. I can see why the coffee places were so popular in the 1700s<\/p>\n<p>Will be interesting to see where it goes from here. Apparently there is another newish event, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/camcreative\/calendar\/9629490\/\">CamCreative<\/a> next week at The Arts so will go and compare and contrast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">Powered by ScribeFire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from the inaugural OpenCoffee meet up in Cambridge, UK. Organised by Jed. The event was in Cafe Nero on Kings Parade in Cambridge. A total of about 20 folks (Only two from the fairer sex, Juliette and ? Laura where did you get too!)\u00a0 turned up. I was, of cause, easily the oldest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[102,124,290],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge","category-meetings","tag-cambridge","tag-coffee","tag-opencoffee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}