GeekUp is a lot more social and its mainley developers or people with some ideas who just want to talk about the industry or get ideas, I don’t have a website which I could display but I still wanted to go and have a chat with people.

Open Coffee however seems to be a small group of investors or big developers and I find open coffee a bit more… “clicky” than the geekup, I arrived half way through due to my lunch hour and it took a while to get into the flow, if I didn’t know some people from last time, I don’t think i’d have enjoyed it, thats not to say that Open Coffee is a bad thing, but I feel its aimed at higher level management who can take time off, people who live off there websites :P, people who don’t work 9-5. That cuts a lot of people out (I was talking to a few people about this at GeekUp), I think if it becomes a bit more flexible, the attendance numbers should rise and it should be a better morning :).

The divides are getting bigger with each meeting, I think I’m the only one at the moment that has been to both events, that might be just bad advertising or geek snobbery, you can already see at least one person wouldn’t attend the GeekUp! if Imran wasn’t there….Mate, come on…. he’s a good bloke, but you gotta get out on your own!

The next GeekUp is in 2 weeks and I’m doing a 6 Minute presentation on SEO, hopefully people will like it and I can do some others, (Revenue for the 2.0 site, beating banner blindness, catching clickfraud).

BarCamp Leeds is the one event I hope will bring everyone together and “get this party started”, that’s probably going to be in september but i’ll keep you informed a bit more over the next few weeks.