Category: Upcoming Meetups

August 2011 Meetup


Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

This months meetup will be on the 5th August and as ever be in the back room of the Admiral Benbow Pub in the heart of Shrewsbury Town Centre (Directions can be found here)

The back room has it’s own access to the bar and a good choice of Real Ale. (List of Ales can be found here)

The meetup will start at around 7.30pm but anyone who wishes to come can drop in at anytime between then and closing time.

All are welcome who believe they have a geeky side to them and enjoy a good mix of beer and geekery with friendly bunch of fellow geeks.

For the latest news follow us on twitter @shropgeek

Hope to see you there.


February comes early for Shropgeek


Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

What happens when you cross a geek with some jelly?

Come along to February’s Shropgeek meetup, held on January 28th 2011, at The Boathouse in Shrewsbury to find out.

Why are we meeting a week early? Well, we have something rather special lined up.

Introducing Shropshire Jelly

Many of you who attend Shropgeek will already know about Shropshire Jelly. For those who don’t, Jelly is an informal co-working event where freelancers, home workers and small/micro business owners bring their laptop or other work and work, chat and collaborate with other small business owners (If you would like to find out more about what Jelly is all about visit the UK Jelly website).

It is safe to say that Jelly has been a phenomenal success in Shropshire. With this in mind, they have decided to organise their first ‘social’ event in collaboration with Shropgeek.

If you have been to a Shropgeek before, you will already be familiar with the format. Starting at 7.30pm, it is a relaxed evening of beer and chat and a great opportunity for people working in all industries to socialize with no pressure of networking.

Everybody is welcome, it doesn’t matter whether you have been to a Shropgeek meetup or Shropshire Jelly before. We always guarantee a fun evening with friendly banter. Oh, and of course local Shropshire Ales (important to all geeks! ~ grin!).

If you are interested in coming along then please do let us know so we have an idea of numbers. You can let us know by any of the usual methods. Either comment below, tweet the @Shropgeek twitter account or let either myself (Kirsty Burgoine) or Jan Minihane know.

So, if you want to find out what happens when you cross a geek with some jelly then you will want to come to the Shropgeek / Shropshire Jelly ‘Social’ at The Boathouse, Shrewsbury, from 7.30pm on 28th Jan 2011!

See you all there! ~ grin!


Shropgeek Extravaganza in September!


Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

September for Shropgeek is an especially exciting month. Most of you already know about the event, The Theory of (R)Evolution, we are holding on the 24th September (more information about that on the official website www.shropgeek-revolution.co.uk). Which we are extremely pleased to announce sold out after being on sale for less than a month!

But, before that, we have one more regular meetup on 10th September 2010.

Although shropgeek meetups are usually the first friday of every month, because of scheduling conflicts for several of our regular attendees, we have decided to move September’s meetup to Friday 10th September at The Admiral Benbow in Shrewsbury (Details of the venue can be found here).

This does however mean that, although later than normal, it does make it a rather special meetup. Both Jamie Biddle (@jamiebiddle) and myself (@kirstyburgoine) will be celebrating our birthdays the following week (hence the random picture of geeky cake! ~ grin!). So what better excuse than to celebrate at Shropgeek!

The evening starts at 7.30pm and as always, you can expect beer and geekery and anyone is welcome to come along. Hope to see you there!


August 2010 Meetup


Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Now the dust has now settled and the shock of seeing ‘geeks’ in the Shropshire Star (I will post the full article soon) is slowly wearing off its time to think about next months meetup.

The August shropgeek meetup will be Friday 3rd August 2010. As usual it will be at The Admiral Benbow in Shrewsbury from 7.30pm onwards.

Ideas and suggestions for topics for discussion are always welcome, either comment below or join in on twitter!

If you are coming along for the first time, don’t worry we don’t have the Shropshire Star there every week! ~ grin!


Next Shropgeek Meetup.


Monday, October 26th, 2009

Admiral BenbowAfter much discussion via twitter, the date and location of the next geekup has now been  decided.

It will be held in Shrewsbury at The Admiral Benbow on Friday 6th November 2009.  Starting around 7.30pm.

Details of the venue can be found here

All are welcome so please do come along.