Czechidea.com

OpenMeeting. Open or closed?

Petr Ocasek, managing director of Beneta.cz, runs a website OpenMeeting.biz, which is aimed on organizing evens based on OpenCoffee idea – a place for ITC professionals to discuss and share experiences and troubles on informal basis. Contrary to original OpenCoffee meetings, which cover mainly startup scene in various countries and its issues, Czech OpenMeeting has more borad coverage, trying to attract also “classic” ITC professionals, speaking about software development, human resources in IT industry, VoIP, ERP systems etc.

Great effort, because there are as little as almost no events for people to meet and talk about such an topics. For example, this week they are organizing the English-speaking event in Skype development centre in Prague for senior PHP developers.

On the other hand in Poland there are at least eight events, conferences and meetups just during this month, spreading the bigger cities around the country. Hopefully Czech Internet Forum (conference held this month in Prague) will bring new air into Czech web ecosystem.

Despite appreciated OpenMeeting’s efforts, there is still lot of work ahead of us over here to get at least on level of Poland. We still need learn a lot. Maybe first step could be avoiding organizing invitation-only events on platform with word “open” in its name, as OpenMeeting.biz did last month. Open should mean really open for everyone.

If you enjoyed this post, then make sure you subscribe to my RSS Feed.