Global CMS Geekery
You said you were going’ to Frisco, stay a couple of months.
I always liked San Francisco, I was there for a party once.
- MAYBE SOMEDAY
Good news. CMS Geeks are getting tanked up all over the world, and it’s spreading. We all drink and blabber on the last Thursday on every month, unless a conference or something means we should move the date for an uber-event. Here is a quick summary of where we are.
London (MeetUp, LinkedIn) - The original, a.k.a. #LastThursdayCMS. Thanks to Kenton and the other guys at Squiz for starting it. Been going a few years now, and had many celebrity visits. We will have lots of nice photos once our most recent celebrity visitor, @theresaregli, figures out how to download from her camera.
New York (LinkedIn) – Follow this one on #CMSGeekUpNYC. There have been a few meetings, with another big one coming soon. Irina (@irina_guseva) has taken the baton here.
San Francisco (MeetUp, LinkedIn) - The first one is TONIGHT (20 May 2010), moved to coincide with Gilbane SF. The Mad Monks (@pmonks) is your guy for this one, and it’s on #CMSGeekUpSF. Hoping for some photos soon.
Amsterdam - The first event is tonight, and they’re using #CMSGeekUpAMS. The SDL Tridion folks will be there in force and you may see a Hippo or two. With the @erikmhartman event in town, it’s likely to grow. Don’t be put off by the stupidly small beers they serve in Amsterdam. Just drink more.
Boston - Yet to have a meeting, but the intentions are good. Threatening to organise is @natea. This should get big with many vendors based in the Boston area. Not sure we have a hashtag yet.
Paris (MeetUp, LinkedIn) – Just created! First event is on Monday 14 June, after which is becomes Last Thursdays. Created by @adeforsan and @elieauvray, and you can follow it on #CMSGeekupParis. Expect free drinks from Nuxeo, Jahia and others.
Geneva (MeetUp) – We’re “spreading like cholera”. A new joiner, set up by @scroisier. Looking forward to hearing about their first event.
So if you live in/travel to one of these areas, join your groups and tell your friends. A few cities with a visible CMS presence haven’t joined in yet. I’m talking to you Stockholm and Copenhagen. And Western Europe could use a couple. Australia (Yuval, you listening?), New Zealand, South Africa and India need to represent too.
Start spreading the word and creating those groups. Finally, feel free to map a better map than my horrorshow.
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Unlike our immaculately dressed English brethren, suits are entirely optional at #CMSGeekUpSF tonight. I myself will be a sporting my newly donated G-socks (and perhaps a G-string, if my hopes for upcoming Google I/O schwag pan out).
OMG… I’ve been gone for little over a year and they’ve already moved Amsterdam into Germany. Amazing!
Actually, it might even have moved into Southern Denmark but now. You US-centric folk probably haven’t been reading about the massive acceleration in the European plate shifts. Madrid is in Bulgaria now. It’s dangerous out here these days.
Perhaps you should start organizing the first World CMS GeekUP conference. May I suggest the Seychelles as the venue?
Regards from London.
We’ve just launched #CMSGeekuparis – Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/last-thursday-cms-paris/
LinkedIn Group : http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3067809
First meetup on Monday 14/6 – stay tuned for the place
fav. beer: http://belgianbeershrimper.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/grimbergen-blond.jpg
Let’s keep that for the Brussels meetup
Apart from Amsterdam moving to Mecklenburg, I’ve noticed some other bizarre features of your map. Is Greenland really bigger than South America? Doesn’t Asia-Pacific get a look in, or is this pre-Vasco de Gama? Why is there no ash cloud over Iceland?
It may be worth saying that you don’t need to drink beer to attend, but it helps.
Okay, Mr Complainer. You’re now the official Senior Vice President of CMS Drinks Map Creation. Impress us.
Just coz you said Go, doesn’t mean I can actually go. I need to get some resource and establish the specification.
OK, i will see what i can get here down under.
#CMSGeekuparis will take place in a beautiful place : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31511791260&v=photos
The place is huge (how knows ?
and even if it’s not the case today, was one of the first cybercafé in France. Remember the time where internet was not broadband at home but a 1Mb of bandwidth in a café to discover Doom or some 120px / 10s NASA video after 3 hours of download ?
I realized its been nearly a year now since this was posted, but do you still continue to do this? This is really interesting! Besides India, are there news of other Asian location joining up? Although I sometimes show up in Sydney, is the Oz group already had their gatherings goin’ on? (if it’s in Sydney that is!)
Yeah, it still happens. Sydney might have happened – try @yuvalararat
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