Just got back from meetup #2 of the OSDGC. We met at the Mylkbar on Upton St - a good central venue I think and I was pleased to see on entering that they have a happy hour until 6pm so beer was pretty damn cheap.
Some new faces, old faces and new faces that were really old faces - and we had some good stimulating conversation about Open Source and the state of the IT Industry on the Gold Coast in particular. I tried really really hard to not talk too much, ask questions and listen more (it's an effort - I think it is in my genes to waffle when I think there might be a silence coming).
Anyway - a big thanks to everyone that came (and thanks Ralph for buying us food - we should have really chipped in for that). We are hoping to do a lot more of this community building and I am hoping to get a Bar Camp Gold Coast going sometime in June/July, please join the OSDGC mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/osdgc to keep up to date.
Got home and caught up on lifehacker feed - which led me to this post which led me to Geek Dad. I think I have found my new favourite blog.....
ps. speaking of geek, I just saw the ultimate Star Wars geek toy today - R2D2 DVD Projector
