and lo there was Cheesecake

Cheesecake at OpenCoffee Bristol on Twitpic

Much to the consternation of Nathan from Veale Wasbrough Lawyers (who had just been to the gym) we were surprised with cheesecake at this morning’s OpenCoffee!

Which was nice.

We stayed upstairs and had pretty soon taken over most of the comfy chairs. Matt from Catalyst Venture Partners, Mark from Information Processing Ltd, Nigel from Katugas, Richard from Mobile Pie, Ed from Tonsho, Charles from Roxburgh Milkins all helped me demolish the cheesecake over discussions about the use of Open Source in the public sector and how to get past the gatekeepers.

As the Open Source discussion moved into the business benefits of the freedom of an open platform to develop your applications, we moved more into the mobile world. Richard described their experiences with taking ideas through conception to listing on the Apple iStore both as commercial and free apps. While there were undoubted hurdles, having a captive audience and known boundaries within which to operate actually helps the process for a small developer.

Richard is also working with the Android / Cupcake. I’d hoped this would be another common software platform, but Richard thought that different devices would require some versioning to deliver the same user experience. For the smaller developer this could be enough to put a lot of people off.

I had to dash to another meeting so missed the last 45 mins and any later arrivals.

The next OpenCoffee Bristol will be Tues, 24 March in Starbucks.

The next Demo Session will be on Tues, 21 April at SETsquared, courtesy of Nick Sturge.

Booking now open!

March 10, 2009 | Filed Under opencoffee 

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