11 people signed up for tonight's pub meet-up at the Cheshire Cheese Fleet St on upcoming.org Count 'em! It's all the usual crowd, but I think it's a good idea to get everyone signed up like this. It pushes us up the upcoming rankings.

I always quite liked the tagged-up interlinked flickr photo'ed goodness of upcoming.org, but it has some limitations and I sense it has fallen out of favour a little lately (less activity on the London geeks group) So where do people organise/share event calendars these days? I just listed the event on geekery.in which I believe is a project by someone in the London Ruby gang. Seems a bit rough around the edges, and I'm not liking the big fat postcode-located google maps. Even so... I recommend everyone creates an account on there and add themselves as attendees :-)

We should try to come to more of a decision about hack days / hack weekends. Let's discuss this tonight. Hack weekends seem to be preferred, but...

I had an idea for a sort of mini-hackday. All we need to do is all go along to a Crisis Camp London event one Saturday. If we do some hacking loosely related to one of their projects, then I'm sure we'd be welcome to encamp ourselves at a table there. They need more technical people to attend anyway... and look! There's a "project" called OpenStreetMap - Improving OSM tools (related to crisis mapping), but obviously any improvement to OpenStreetMap site or editing tools could arguably be within that scope. So we can go along and hack on OpenStreetMap with wifi provided and even Pizza!

Just an idea. Let's discuss it tonight. I'll be going along the Crisis Camp London this coming Saturday anyway I think, but I'm not free for the following two weekends after that. So we need to decide when's the best date to organise a proper hacking session.

Come along to Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese tonight (we'll probably be on the lower basement floor)