Just back from a few days in London, good fun as always - how can it not be when it starts with the London Girl Geek Dinner! (thanks Sarah and Hugh!)
Densely populated with such amazing girls as Gia, Henriette, Sarah, Cathy and many many more... and yet another inspiring call to arms by Cory Doctorow! No panels titled "Women in technology" needed at such gatherings... eh Gia?
(Eat your hearts out Dennis and Ric ;)
Met up with Cathy over lunch to show a snippet of thingamy and talk enterprise stuff. She's a wickedly smart SAP systems geek and really good company, what can I say?
Had also managed to talk James Governor into give me a snippet of time. He being a business 2.5 kind-of-a-guy he did not suggest any old Starbucks, nope, his meeting room was a wine shop with a table in the middle... that's the way to go I say :)
Think we stumbled out after four hours or something (James' brownie points at the home front being under threat), and with Hugh arriving at the scene after two hours I think we had most French wine districts covered... had a grand time!
Now I'm in serious wine bill deficit to James, and will have to arrange a 60m-of-shelf-rose-wine-tasting-sprint in my corner of the world to start paying off that debt! (Or arrange some serious eatery outing in London next time).
Wrapped up today with David and David, where the second David is a true work flow geek so what's not to like? Another inspiring meeting with yet more smart people!
To all kind souls in London, much appreciated, thanks for listening and engaging discussions, I truly had a grand (and believe it or not, productive) time!
Don't worry, I am ...
Drinking wine with James and Hugh - how could that NOT be productive?
Posted by: Ric | March 18, 2006 at 02:50
Sig - thanks for meeting David Squared. It was good fun, and we look forward to getting our hands on the product as soon as. We're going to try to pull you in a particular direction, so we've got lots to talk about.
Posted by: David Terrar | March 18, 2006 at 11:30
Dang - and here I am stuck on the Costa Blanca with no valid passport - but yesterday was Paddy's Day so not all bad. And we still have 60+ bottles of excellent French wine.
Posted by: Dennis Howlett | March 18, 2006 at 12:13
dear Sig,
it was really cool to finally get to chat with you *s* looking forward to see you again
Posted by: Henriette Weber Andersen | March 19, 2006 at 22:54
i am just guilty now for not blogging sig yet...
Posted by: James Governor | March 20, 2006 at 13:13
I forgot - if Hugh was there was any Stormhoek involved?
Posted by: Dennis Howlett | March 20, 2006 at 16:36
No Stormhoek this time, testing the competition ;)
Actually, James is a very well versed wine enthusiast so we blissfully followed in his footsteps!
Posted by: sig | March 20, 2006 at 17:06
Sig
Belatedly, to jog your memory here's the link to the CRM issue I mentioned to you at the geek dinner.
http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=530
Posted by: john | March 25, 2006 at 19:43