Thanks everyone for coming last night! Grand success. Mentioned this to a few folks at the event, but would love to do these monthly or bi-monthly. There’s certainly enough of us here to get a strong showing, and get to do more in-person debates, banter, and demos. Good summary thread of people, projects, and topics from @jeff tang https://twitter.com/tangjeff0/status/1527972094629363712?s=20&t=dpIQn_oViY6RmT_jhoooQg

Tentatively book June 24th on your calendars for the next one - I’ll make an event page and DM it around within the next week. Very likely at the same place (it’s such a good pub for these kind of things!)

The June edition of our London meetup is going to be on the 24th. Just made the Luma event. Feel free to register here: https://lu.ma/6y2n9p0q Same location as last time - Parcel Yard in King’s Cross. Hope to see you all there!

Just arrived in London! Any tips of good places to do foc/laptop work from?

Just a reminder that if anyone has Friday night free, we still have a few spots open for the meetup: June Future of Coding Meetup

Hi! my studio Variable specialising in data art and generative design is looking for an intern. We use our in house visual programming tool called Nodes.io so i think it might be relevant here. Please share if you know anybody who might be interested or hit me with questions https://twitter.com/marcinignac/status/1541783394132058121

Hi everyone! I’m Jorge, a programmer from Colombia. I’m visiting London and I’ll be attending the event next Friday 🙂 Looking forward to meet you all. See you soon! 👋

Very sad to be missing it! I’ll be flying back to Ireland for the weekend ☘️😢

What events do we have coming up here in London?

Thanks to everyone who came out last night! Was wonderful to see so many familiar faces. The next meetup will be Friday, September 16th: https://lu.ma/f2gwr5az Same pub (The Parcel Yard in King’s Cross station) and same time (6:30pm) For the November edition (tentatively set for Nov 11th but TBD) I’m thinking of hosting it somewhere with a projector so we can do some lightning talks and demos. If you have a topic you want to talk about for 5-15mins let me know sometime this month. Either DM on twitter (@mappletons) or here in slack.

Probably coming this time! With @Gerard Serra as well

I’m back adventuring in Europe again unfortunately but really looking forward to whenever I manage to meet y’all in person!!

Excellent news @Pol Baladas 👍 Looking forward to catching up. @Orion Reed Aw, no worries. Hopefully you can make the October or November edition.

Hey hey hopefully see you all on friday!

Hey all, just reminder the FoC meet-up is tomorrow night. https://lu.ma/f2gwr5az We're currently all booked up, but sometimes places open up at the last minute. If you can't make it please do release your booking so others can hop in. Looking forward to seeing lots of you there!

https://thefutureoftext.org/2022/07/11/2022-symposium/ Is anybody attending this over the next few days?

📣 Next FoC meetup set for November 17th! I organised for us to do it Newspeak house this time around so we can fit a few more people in, and more importantly, we’ll have a projector so people can demo what they’ve been working on. We’ll do short lighting talks (5-10 mins) to keep it focused and save time for socialising. Message me if you’d like to demo! Doesn’t have to be anything big. Anything related to experimental programming / design / tools for thought counts. You can grab a spot here: https://lu.ma/foc-london-nov

Great event, thanks maggie 🙂 and good to meet you all!

Any meetup plans in Jan?

Not yet, but there will likely be a pub hangout towards the end of the month - I’ll set a date by next week. Hoping to do another demo-based meetup at Newspeak house in February (similar to the November one) but currently figuring out how to make funding work - eg. need £££ for pizza and drinks for everyone when we do it at non-pub locations. Currently debating between setting up a fund on open collective (https://opencollective.com/) and scouting for sponsors. Ideally the latter since the former looks like it could get complex with accounting and taxes (even if it’s just everyone pays £5 in and we use it for food). If anyone knows of companies who might be willing to sponsor a couple meetups a year, send them my way!

The next meetup will be on Friday, February 10th! You can register here: https://lu.ma/m44byo0a We’ll be hosted by Newspeak House. Format will be the same as November’s event: demos, drinks, pizza, and plenty of time to chat. We’ll have a bunch of FoC-ers presenting their projects. If you’d like to present, please DM me on Twitter or email hello@maggieappleton.com. It can be anywhere from 5 to 15 mins long, and can be about anything that feels FoC-ish: new ideas for programming interfaces, thoughts on humane computing, things you’ve learned about end-user programming. Small, weird talks are welcome!

Hey everyone My cofounder and I have been researching into a subset of end-user programming and how to make automation and AI more accessible. We are growing the team and keen to speak with a London based Head of Product folks who are looking for new roles that love this space (hence asking here!) Would be happy to chat - just DM me :) https://www.thehumbleai.com/careers-jobs P.s if this shouldn’t be posted here just let me know and otherwise I can remove it

I've been building a system that gives AI bots 3 big things they're currently missing: identity, memory and agency. If this is of interest to anyone, please talk to me at the FoC meetup tomorrow. 🙂

PSA: there’s a generative AI hackathon coming up in April in London. I know Sarah Drinkwater, the organiser, and she is legit, plus the sponsors are excellent — there’s going to be a strong science contingent. Applications are now open, I’m sure it will be of interest to many here https://twitter.com/sarahdrinkwater/status/1628755206249881600

Our next London meetup is happening April 8th! https://lu.ma/agskn4zn Come along and hang out. Also if you’d like to do a 5-10min demo or lightning talk, sign up here: https://airtable.com/shrCTtTOVUYMyoglB

Hey folks, anyone here doing anything cool with AI and want to join us in London to give a talk or demo?

Development in the time of AIs

Is software development dead? Are we going to be replaced by clusters of AIs?

We are meeting to discuss how the (near) future of digital production looks like when generative models take the steering wheel.

We (London creative coding and Devcon.network) are hosting a meetup towards the end of June / early July so get in touch!

Our next meetup is scheduled for June 9th! Come if you can, invite other people into future of coding-ish-things If you want to give a talk or demo, submit here: https://airtable.com/shrd3rPwNbVY4Se1q https://lu.ma/or5x4aoe

Hey folks! We’re hiring for our 2nd founding engineer at Granola. Come build an AI-native, open-ended workspace for knowledge work with us! DM me or email sam@granola.so to ask any questions or chat about the role 🙂 Job post: https://granola.so