Open 2017: Platform Cooperatives
Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative)
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I guess a few of us will be at Open 2017: Platform Cooperatives -- "A two day conference on the collaborative economy" -- February 16-17: Goldsmiths, University of London and I was wondering @josefdaviescoates is there anything planned for the evening of the 16th -- could we have a Co-operative Technologists social gathering somewhere and also throw it open to the other co-operators in London who are not at the event?
Josef Davies-Coates Wed 11 Jan 2017 8:25PM
I don't think anything has happened on this front yet, so please go ahead and organise something! (and then let me know the details so we can let everyone else who is coming to the conference know about it too :-D )
Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative) Thu 12 Jan 2017 9:16AM
Cheers for volunteering to take this on @chrisroos :-)
If it is possible to have it on the Thursday evening rather than the Friday that would be appreciated (I have to leave straight after it ends on Friday).
Chris Roos Thu 12 Jan 2017 5:42PM
Does anyone know how I might get an idea of numbers of people interested in this social?
Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative) Thu 12 Jan 2017 5:53PM
Ask for people to post here, or perhaps email the list, or trust that if the venue is near the conference and the conference organisers are going to announce it, that this will be enough to result in lots of interested co-operative technologists coming along?
Chris Roos Thu 12 Jan 2017 6:18PM
@josefdaviescoates: Are you able to give me a rough idea of the number of people currently signed up for the conference, and maybe the maximum number of attendees? This will give me some idea about the sort of size venues that we might be looking at.
Josef Davies-Coates Thu 12 Jan 2017 8:20PM
Hi Chris,
Including our many amazing contributors (of which there are currently about 60, many of whom I'd imagine would be interested in this, but many of whom will likely already have plans too) we're already expecting about 300 people. Max will be around 500. But obviously the vast majority wouldn't come to this.
But yeah, large pub room on Thursday night. I'd definitely start with The Amersham Arms - if they don't already have something happening in their function room/ venue space on that night (and I can't see anything on that date on their website http://www.theamershamarms.co.uk/events/ ) that'd be ideal. Plenty of other local pubs too of course.
For those who don't need to rush off as soon as it finished on Friday we'll hopefully have some drinks on us then too... but no one has sponsored them yet... any takers? :P
In cooperation,
Josef.
Josef Davies-Coates Thu 12 Jan 2017 8:23PM
also, just reading their about page it sounds like the Take Courage gallery upstairs which includes a comfy sofa area would perhaps be suitable too
Chris Roos Fri 13 Jan 2017 2:41PM
Awesome. Thanks @josefdaviescoates. I'm going to try the Amersham Arms along with some of the other local venues.
Josef Davies-Coates Wed 18 Jan 2017 1:57PM
Great, keep us posted! :)
Chris Roos · Wed 11 Jan 2017 5:03PM
Has anything more happened on this front? @jamesmead and I are happy to organise something but don't want to tread on any toes.