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01 Oct, 2008

A new community for newcastle geeks or pseudo-geeks

Posted by: brian In: conference

Quadrangle, Newcastle University

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Whilst I didnt get to BarcampLondon last week, I was present at some fairly interesting conversations and seminars.

Monday night was the inaugural meeting, or pilot meeting of SuperMondaySomethings at the Beehive Research Center at Newcastle University. Whilst it has a strong focus on open source, I think the main thing is dialogue. The turnout was a pleasing 20 or so IT enthusiasts, with Pete Hindle, Derrick Welsh and I as the ‘digital artists’.

Looks to be fun, first Monday of the month, theres also a Googlegroup that is linked from the main site

Super Mondays is a strong and vibrant community of IT enthusiasts based in The North East of England. We meet up once a month for a range of IT user group meetings and some unstructured discussions.

There is no membership, no fees and no rules….the community is basically undefined! If you want to attend then just come along.

You can find out more here:

http://www.supermondays.org

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