{"id":627,"date":"2007-08-09T22:49:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T22:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/the-state-of-the-coffee%e2%80%a6-the-open-kind\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T22:51:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T22:51:32","slug":"the-state-of-the-coffee%e2%80%a6-the-open-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/the-state-of-the-coffee%e2%80%a6-the-open-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Coffee\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The Open Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"

In April, I took the initiative of bringing the OpenCoffee Club project to Portugal<\/a>, most specifically to Lisbon. The project started as well as it could, with more than 10 people signing in the first week, which was good considering the nature of the event.<\/p>\n

For the fist OpenCoffee meeting<\/a> we had 6 persons showed up, which was not a good number considering that by the time of the event, we had almost 20 members in the group. Nevertheless, considering that the OC philosophy consists in a informal meeting, almost like a coffee with friends, these 6 members (me included) had a really nice time, sharing experiences and knowledge as it was meant to be, unfortunately not all the goals of the OC were met.<\/p>\n

What failed?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Well, today VD<\/a>, one of the members that is present on OCL since the beginning, wrote about the fact the OCL could not be successful as the OC in Boston (or any other around the world). The reasons he pointed (very well) are based on a few side chats we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been having since the first OCL meeting. <\/p>\n