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Update 1: OK, sorry for the change – but I’ve had to reschedule to Thursday 15th of March. Venue still tbc

Update 2: The venue is now confirmed as the Old Bank Of England

OK – I thought getting filmed by someone from Microsoft last year was as surreal an experience as I could expect from London 2.0, but I think a plug on Wired News which I came across in Gmail takes the biscuit:

Londoners’ calendars are once again full of networking events, parties and meetups.

The setting is traditionally a London pub and, in the case of events like Beers & Innovations, appropriate liquid lubrication is on tap.

No damn plug for the blog though – or me! I suppose at least one Sam (Sam Sethi) gets a sound bite – even if he does have nothing to do with the event 🙂

Anyway, after a not so brief hiatus, the next event will be on Wednesday March the 14th Thursday 15th of March. Details up as usual on the calendar, Upcoming and the official website. Venue tbc The venue will be at the Old Bank Of England, but please comment or update upcoming if you’re attending. QCon will be in town at the same time, so we may have a few gatecrashers…

I thought it was finally time that the London 2.0 meetings had their own website. London20.org will be the place to find out about the upcoming meetings, associated events and will allow us to look at how to help the community keep in touch in the virtual as well as physical world.

The site hasn’t been up for long, so please leave a note if anything seems amiss, or if you want to leave a suggestion.

To celebrate the London 2.0 meet-up’s first chirstmas, we’ll be freeloading off joining the BBC Backstage and other communities for a Cuban-themed evening. The event will be held at The Cuban near Moorgate on Saturday December the 9th. There are more details over at the BBC Backstage Blog. If yoyu want to come along, please make sure you sign up – there is a strict limit on places.

Thanks must go to Ian Forrester for organising everything, and the following sponsors:

• TechCrunch UK
• Skills Matter
• Trusted Places
• Chinwag
• BBC
• O’Reilly

Please note, it is highly likely we’ll be having our own event in December if people want it!

In an attempt to try and stick to the ‘first Monday of the month’ pattern for the London 2.0 meet-ups, our next meeting will be on Monday the sixth of November. As per usual, it’ll start from about 6.30pm, and will involve lots of people involved with (or just interested in) Web 2.0 technologies.

No fixed agenda, demos are welcome, as is beer.

Unless I get a better offer, we’ll be at the Olde Bank of England once again. If you fancy coming along, either leave a comment here or over at “upcoming”:http://upcoming.org/event/113730.

Thanks to everyone that attended this month’s meeting – I took some pretty ropey pictures, and they’ll up on Flickr soon. I have good chats with Simon W on OpenID, <a href="http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/"Simon B on not blogging, and most other people there (which is a first) about lots of other things. I’m unable to make tonight’s Python meet-up, although both the Simons and Remi should be there, so go along if you fancy it.

Stay tuned for information on November’s meeting.

This month’s meeting will be on Monday the 2nd of October – I’m hoping to try and make the first Monday of each month the regular time for these little get togethers. As usual, it’s informal, no real agenda, however I’ll probably be talking about Database refactorings and Microformats.

After an interesting meeting earlier this month, where Jason provided us with a very cool Selenium demo, I’m once again hoping for people to bring along stuff to show off. This time around I’ll do my best to get a quieter space – hopefully one of the rooms at the Olde Bank of England. We have a room at the Olde Bank of England. Starting 7pm as usual, although I’ll probably be there from 6.30pm.

Please let me know if you’re going to attend – either by leaving a comment or mentioning it over at “Upcoming”:http://upcoming.org/event/108986. As always, the event is on the “London 2.0 iCal feed”:http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/c7ilcesmkkn0e3bkirk4kgf5cc@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics too.

Colleague “Jason Huggins”:http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/ (“Selenium”:http://www.openqa.org/selenium/ dev) is in town as he’s presenting at the “Google Automated Testing Conference”:http://services.google.com/events/londontesters , so I felt a meet up was in order. It’ll also serve as a nice warm-up for “d.construct”:http://2006.dconstruct.org/ later in the week – I’ve managed to snag a ticket so I’ll be going.

Format is the same as normal – laidback, beer, demos, geekery and quite a lot of gradient fills.

As always, the the “London 2.0 Archive”:http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/category/web-20/london-20-meet-ups/, “Google iCal feed”:http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/c7ilcesmkkn0e3bkirk4kgf5cc@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics and “Upcoming”:http://upcoming.org/event/95916 will have all the details – -I’ll update everything once I have a venue confirmed, but as always it’ll be a pub/bar in London-. The venue is now confirmed as the “Old Bank of England”:http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/66/660/ – we’ll be on the far right of the pub. Feel free to leave a comment if you want to attend or would like to demo something.

p(update). The venue will be the “Olde Bank of England”:http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/66/660/ – we have the balcony reserved.

After a long hiatus, it’s back. I’d love to blame trips to China and Minneapolis, but in truth I’m just plain lazy. Format as before – a laidback drink/gossip with perhaps a few demos thrown in.

I’ll hopefully be arranging demos of “Selenium(Selenium – The opensource web testing tool)”:http://www.openqa.org/selenium/ and “Buildix(Buildix – project in a box)”:http://buildix.thoughtworks.com/, but as always feel free to bring along whatever projects you’re imvolved with that you’d like to demo.

Venue to be confirmed – stay tuned to “Upcoming”:http://upcoming.org/event/95915, this blog post, the “London 2.0 Archive”:http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/category/web-20/london-20-meet-ups/ or the Google “ical feed(London 2.0 Events)”:http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/c7ilcesmkkn0e3bkirk4kgf5cc@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics (I’m SO Web 2.0) for updates. Feel free to leave a comment to let me know you’ll be coming along…