Google London Open Source Jam
Posted by George Wright Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:27:00 GMT
On Thursday, Google’s London office hosted the first “Open Source Jam” - an invitation-only event designed to bring together members of the free software community to hack on stuff at Google’s office.
I was the only person in KDE there as John Tapsell, in his infinite wisdom, forgot it was Thursday and didn’t show up. It’s a really nice office in Belgrave House a few minutes walk from Victoria underground station. They were very hospitable and there was free wireless internet for us - although it was very erratic and the lack of a DNS server didn’t help. To be fair I didn’t really use the wireless as it was such a short event that I ended up talking through the whole evening instead of geeking.
Among the people there were a couple of guys I already knew, namely Alasdair Kergon (agk) of LVM fame, and also Paul Nasrat, a Red Hat employee.
The employees themselves were really friendly - and ridiculously good at table football. The room we were in was some sort of a hybrid cafeteria and recreation room, sporting lots of drinks refrigerators, a pool table and a table football table.
All in all, it was quite a fun event and they’re thinking of making it a regular thing on a monthly basis. Unfortunately Cambridge is a bit far to come from for a three hour session but I’ll certainly endeavour to go a few more times.
