Coffee and Code in Oakville

Yesterday morning I was sitting in Artisano’s Bakery and Café in Oakville (as I am now) and twitted as much.  Barry, a fellow Oakvillain whom I met in Seattle when I was living in Montreal replied that it was a great place, and would I be there in the afternoon… we could start our first Oakville Coffee and Code.  I told him that I would not, but why not today?  I posted something like ‘Coffee and Code in Oakville… come talk Windows 7’.

Barry replied that he couldn’t be here, but a few other people replied that they would be.  The mayor of Oakville, Rob Burton, retweeted my message with the tag ‘Windows 7 is good’. All of a sudden we’ve got ourselves a ballgame!

I pinged a few people at Microsoft Canada… ‘Try to come by if you can, and tell people.’  Suddenly fifteen people are twitting that there’s a Coffee & Code in Oakville today.  This is getting cool!

I came to the café early… my wife (who is pregnant) wanted to have lunch HERE.  My pleasure, I got to see her in the middle of the day.  As we are sitting having lunch Mayor Burton came to our table and expressed his regrets that he couldn’t join us today, but that he is running Windows 7 Release Candidate (Build 7100) on two machines, and is loving it.  He spent a few minutes talking with Theresa and I before letting us get back to our lunch, and sitting down for his.

It is now nearly 1:30 and I have no idea who is going to come down to discuss Windows 7… or Server 2008, EBS, Home Server, or whatever; however I do know that whoever shows up is going to have a great time meeting colleagues and peers… and I can assure you that we WILL be holding these meetings more often!  (Of course, as a lot of us are IT Pros and not Devs we might have to call it Lattés and LANs :) just like they do in Ottawa!)

Read the complete post at http://mitchgarvis.com/blogs/mitch/archive/2009/06/18/coffee-and-code-in-oakville.aspx