Just back from The Exchange with all empties and remaining beer, and a lovely bright moon on a rare warm night. Tonight saw some interesting tours and chats about web apps, accessibility issues for the blind and a successful macro lens photography experiment using mobile phones and mutilated DVD drives – amazingly it worked and there will soon be pics to prove it. We also saw how a local Stroud business sells custom printed t-shirts and other merchandise via their home made web site, with some insight into their business model. For those wishing to follow-up, here are the links:
http://www.getharvest.com/ (time tracking and billing)
http://www.freeagentcentral.com/ (accounts)
http://tshirtcandy.com/ – (t-shirt/merch printing in Stroud from our very own Craig Williams)
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ (to-do lists everywhere)
http://www.doodle.com/ (negotiating meeting dates)
Some good ideas were fielded about structure of future events. We elected to start a google wave for proposing ideas/projects for next meet up which is likely to be monday july 5th pending final confirmation. This will have the added bonus of forcing some of us Luddites (myself included) to try google wave to see if it really is actually useful.
Thanks to everybody for coming – see you next time!
Sorry I couldn’t make this one – will definitely try and make the next one…