What is this about?
By Jonny Axelsson. Saturday, 2. February 2008, 21:34:12
The idea is very simple. Once a month people in Prague that care about the Web meet and socialise. The format is half an hour or an hour with a talk and discussion, the rest will be social activities which at least in my case is going to include beer drinking and incessant talking.
Thursday was in part chosen to avoid other activities like First Tuesday, but that one is dominantly a business network and this is to be by webheads for webheads, but also because Thursday is a fairly quiet night. The first Thursday is easier to remember than second or last Thursday in the month. The kafarna was picked for fulfilling the requirements (nice, open, fairly smoke free and cheap, central...) and all round fine place. However it does not have wireless connection.
The talks will be technical, but you will not need a doctorate in computer science to partake. Web technologies, primarily the ones close to the user, so it will be more HTML than HTTP, more JavaScript than PHP. It will cover open standards rather than proprietary formats and protocols.
Some talks will be in English, others will be in Czech or Slovak.
Opera Software in Prague helps organise this activity, but it isn't meant to be an Opera hagiography. You don't have to sell your soul to Opera, though if Tor or others from our Souls&Minds department should be in town, they might make an offer for it you don't want to refuse. This is meant to be an exchange of ideas, not a sales pitch.
The inspirations have been several, like Oslo Pils [beer] and Linux User Group, or when I was more involved with Web standards the face-to-face evening eating/drinking sessions that could be more productive than the committee meeting before them. A lot can be done by email, but some things are much more fun and interesting in person.
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