Posts Tagged ‘meetup’

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!


A ‘geeky’ christmas do…


Saturday, November 28th, 2009

geek_christmas_card-p137912411218698094qi0i_400So…

We want to arrange a ‘shropgeek’ christmas do.  This is open to any that would like to attend, you don’t have to be a geek or from Shropshire, as long as you are able to attend you are welcome.

This was @leunix’s last suggestion for shropgeek before he passed away and therefore we want to go all out to do his idea justice. Therefore we are looking for ideas of what to do, a venue and when. All suggestions will be seriously considered.

Personally, I’m thinking that as all of the ‘shropgeeks’ have been ridiculously busy recently it would be worth having a normal meetup at the beginning of December and then hold a bigger event during the holiday period between christmas and the new year. This way we don’t clash with every bodies christmas work do’s.

What does everybody think? Where should it be held? What sort of event should we hold and who would like to come?

Please comment below with all ideas and suggestions.

Thanks

Kirsty


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.