Open Coffee Amsterdam, SOLD OUT
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The first Open Coffee Meetup was packed! 30 people showed up.
When I wrote the original blogpost about OpenCoffee I put a maximum on the number of attendees. I thought that it would be good to have a maximum (GOD knows why) and I entered 30. This morning Jaspar told me that he wasn’t allowed to sign up for the Meetup because it was “sold out” :) A good start!
The vibe was good, People were chatting, some were showing their new stuff on laptops, others were pitching on their mobile and Wakoopa brought their sticker schwag. One hour is not very long, but I liked it very much. It is long enough to talk to 3 or 4 people and shake hands with the rest. So every week can be different, interesting and fun.
Some of the people who were there:
Peter Kaptein
Entrepreneur, owner of Instant Interfaces, former DHTML guru, Adobe Flash
wizard, builder of many things, including a Sales Presentation Distribution
system and an Intranet / Extranet document sharing framework. Constantly
working on new ideas.
Sjors Timmer
A web design start-up with a focus on the interface design of large database driven site’s.
Nivocer (Rolf Kleef) helps civil society with online collaboration: programme coordination, monitoring and evaluation, communication.
“Johan “Julf” Helsingius, serial entrepreneur, ex-KPNQwest CTO and now a business angel, involved with a bunch of companies such as BaseN, Compass Projects, Viola Systems and Network Signature”
Robert Gaal and Wouter Broekhof, founders of Wakoopa (it is still in stealth mode, so I cannot tell what all the buzz is about but it has something to do with ‘making software sexy’).
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, CEO of Fleck and initiator of The Next Web Conference.
Arjen Schat, CTO of Fleck and also initiator of the conference and The Next Web Awards.
Mark Rosbergen of buzzbasics
Thomas Engel of the Saints (mobile software developers).
Rogier Visser, founder swoot.com with interests in web2.0 and desktop/widget developments.
ErnstJan CEO of souki and to be released headr.com
Jasper Swelheim (playlikeachampion) and Maarten Valk (Heineken)
Pim Volkers, who just invested in a cool company but I forgot the name (sorry).
Diederik Martens, CEO of Twones music matching.
Gerard van Enk, Webapplication/Open Source/Mashups developer and entrepreneur.
mac-fan, Dylan fan, inno-fan, Lammert van Raan, Business Devlopment @ Orange Broadband Netherlands.
Frank, Independent interaction architect based in Amsterdam that partners with clients to conceptualize and design services for the web and emerging media.
Bas Godska (VOC media)
Job and Roel Bakker, who are starting an internet shop going live in april.
Wouter Wiegman (Aspiring entrepreneur)
Thijs van der Vossen (owner fingertips)
And I’m pretty sure I forgot some guys.
Some stats (58 coffee, 30 people, 1 woman (mother of Boris))
I’m looking forward to next weeks Meetup, Thursday 22 March 9:00am, more members are welcome
If you have ideas, feel free to contact me or leave a comment.
Ernstjan Albers said,
Wrote on March 15, 2007 @ 5:32 pm
Thanks Patrick! see you next week
diederik said,
Wrote on March 15, 2007 @ 5:49 pm
finaly a spend some time with Boris
ThanKs
Wrote on March 15, 2007 @ 6:10 pm
Hi Patrick, heck of a way to start the day. thx, lammert
patrick said,
Wrote on March 15, 2007 @ 6:25 pm
Thanks all!
@Lammert Please read my previous post about www.
You’re working for Orange right? Would be cool to check how fast a large organization can change such a small thing :)
Wrote on March 15, 2007 @ 6:33 pm
Great event! Looking forward to next thursday. I’ll try to bring another women then…
JoopDorresteijn said,
Wrote on March 15, 2007 @ 6:37 pm
Although I promised to come, I wasn’t there. Looks like I missed out!
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