6pm, Friday 15th August 2008 saw the first "web types" meetup in Aberdeen and we all had a good time. The chat ranged from who everyone was, who they worked for and what they were working on at the moment to normal sort of pub chat that we all know, love and laugh at. This meetup had an attendance of 9 people from mostly different companies which was pretty good and although I had to do a shoot at 8pm, I believe the night went on for several hours afterwards.

I am really pleased that it was well received and that people actually came out for it. I know there are a good few others who couldn't make it for this one but we'll see at the next one...overall a worthwhile meetup.

As always, I am interested in any suggestions people have for these meetups so feel free to reply here or email me direct if you're shy ;)

I forgot to take any pics of the meetup so unfortunately I dont have any to post here but if anyone else took pics, feel free to forward them.

I think we all agreed that the meetup needed a name and blog of it's own so feel free to start discussing that too...would it help if I set up a google group for this? (James B mentioned this previously)

Let me know...and cheers to all who got involved to make this happen.

As a side note, quote of the evening(at least up until the point I left) goes to East Coast Interactives very own Mike Duguid in arguing the case for coldfusion over php (yes...i was as surprised as anyone...Mike's a php developer!) and it went like so:

"Mark lives in Bridge of Don and so how does he go about getting into work in the middle of Aberdeen?....does he buy a car (the commercial solution, in this case coldfusion) or does he buy a box of nuts and bolts and build a car (the open source solution)?"...point made!

what others are saying:

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