If you have not heard about OpenCoffee, now is the time. This is an informal gathering of internet passionates that started in London under the impulsion of Saul Klein from Skype/Index Ventures and that is now spreading all over Europe and Beyond.
When i first read about OpenCoffee i said to myself this looks like exactly like iDrink that we have been started for a couple of months now.
Since then i have been contacted by some guys to help set up OpenCoffee in Paris, which i did (as much as i remotely could from Tel Aviv) and the format has started great.
Since i have been exchanging a few messages with Saul Klein to see if the format could be launched here, to which i reacted that it was already taking place 
The main difference for now with iDrink and OpenCoffee is that OpenCoffee is taking place every week in a fixed place at a fixed time (usually in a StarBuck we don’t have here and iDrink in a cool Bar). The intention for iDrink is to set it once a month on average.
I am not sure this is what we want to do with iDrink (please let me know what you think) but certainly the spirit is the same and i would gladly feel affiliated with this global series of events?
What do you say? Should we do it more often? Would you prefer do it under the OpenCoffee format?
BtW iDrink#3 will take place probably first week of may as we have holidays soon here + web2.0 expo + TWS2007 many are attending
OpenCoffee reaches Scotland
http://www.vecosys.com/2007/03/23/opencoffee-comes-to-scotland/
"I spent yesterday afternoon on the phone and emailing VC’s and angels that I know and some I don’t know here in Scotland to see if they would be interested in coming to an opencoffee meet-up in Glasgow as a starting point. The response has been pretty good. Before going much further it would be interesting to know if there are any Scottish entrepreneurs who want to come along? Starbucks on Sauchiehall Street is quite small so I guess we wouldn’t fit 100 in anyway"
Posted by: Adrian | 23 March 2007 at 02:58 PM
Charlie from Oddcast and http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com created a similar event group called NextNY and a wiki to keep up w/ all the ongoings.
Looks like these groups are going to continue to pop up all over the world.
http://www.nextny.org/wiki/
Posted by: israluv | 23 March 2007 at 04:17 PM