So the initial emailing of 10 people I knew to be interested has resulted in very positive feedback and interest from several others that I wasn't currently aware of.

To bring everyone up to date I'll be sending another email within the next week but I can confirm that the unanimous decision for the date it is to be held will be Friday 15th August. Details of the venue, and any other points will be in the email and also posted here.

This is an opportunity for those of you in the know to let others that I'm not in contact with to explain that there will be a meetup for those in and around Aberdeen to meet, chat, generally "geek out" and have some beer. At a basic level, if you can get me email addresses for others, i'll add them to the list of people to contact. I'm not too comfortable with the idea of basically "cold calling" people so this would really help.

Discussions are about to take place about some great ideas for the future of this event and I encourage anyone with any interest to pipe up and get involved too. This will be a worthwhile thing to be involved in if the current feedback is anything to go by so if you want it even better, get yourselves involved.