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London / FOWA WordPress Meetup
Filed under: Asides | Tags: London, Meetup, WordPress, future of web apps | October 3rd, 2007
As per the comments on my last post the WordPress London Meetup will be on Thursday October 4th right after the PHP London meetup. The venue is called The Old Crown and it looks like the perfect spot, it even has wifi. I have to take the DLR from the Docklands into town so I’m planning to be there at 9 PM, which is when the PHP presentations should be finishing up and we can stage a WordPress invasion. If someone could post DLR / Tube instructions to get there from the Excel Center where FOWA is I think a lot of people would appreciate it. (10)
Olly Jackson | October 3rd, 2007 @ 10:10 am | Reply
Hi Matt, I was in the audience for your presentation. Good talk! Lots of really useful information for anyone planning a web service.
Claudius | October 3rd, 2007 @ 10:21 am | Reply
Cool, I’ll definately try and make it!
Matt | October 3rd, 2007 @ 10:35 am | Reply
Thanks, hope to see you at the meetup.
Lisa Price | October 3rd, 2007 @ 11:14 am | Reply
hi - this should do it! http://tinyurl.com/yprzxq
karan | October 3rd, 2007 @ 11:20 am | Reply
TfL’s journey planner suggests taking the DLR to Bank, and the Central line from there to Holborn, then walking. Total journey time about 45 min.
Alternatively, take the Jubilee from Canning Town to Waterloo, and changing there for Northern line to Tottenham Court Road station and walking from there, also 45 min.
It’s very much split the difference - option 1 is a little easier, but option 2 is probably a little quicker to be honest (DLR is not a stunning example of speed)
Ollie Parsley | October 3rd, 2007 @ 3:54 pm | Reply
Yeah was a really great talk! I took a fair few nots from it. I hate that I can’t come as I will be on a train back to Dorset down south but i will be there in spirit, using my TechJuicer.com blog! Which of course it WordPress powered but yet to be 2.3 upgraded (will be when I get home)
futurix | October 3rd, 2007 @ 5:20 pm | Reply
From ExCel take the DLR train to Bank.
At Bank change to Central (red) line (strictly follow the signs, it is easy to get lost otherwise).
On the Central line take any westbound train. Your stop will be the third one.
P.S. From personal experiece I suggest you not to bother with Jubilee and Northern lines. The interchange at Waterloo is very long, and Northern line can be very crowded and unreliable. In contrast DLR usually is very reliable and almost empty in that direction.
Dave Nattriss | October 4th, 2007 @ 8:14 pm | Reply
Hi,
Don’t think we saw you guys at the PHP London meeting. Ah well!
Nigel James | October 5th, 2007 @ 2:23 am | Reply
Hey Matt,
So glad you were able to make it last night. It was a bit hard to find. I had trouble myself.
Great to chat with you and hear about all the great things you have planned for wordpress.
Cheers,
Nigel
Rob Foxx | October 7th, 2007 @ 10:38 am | Reply
Good to see you there on the night, Matt - if you’re ever in Liverpool drop me a line