A few weeks ago, I posted on the Open Coffee Club’s that are popping up across the country and the rest of the world and how we need something like this in the DC area. Well, it seems as if my call for action has been answered (sort of, it is not a coffee club, but it is just as good). My co-worker, Frank Gruber (of SomewhatFrank fame) and his good friend Eric Olson created TechCocktail while in Chicago (Eric is still there and works for Feedburner), and they are holding their inaugural DC event on Thursday, May 17th.

I learned about the event while out at the Web 2.0 Expo, where Frank and I were attending the same social function hosted by Marc Levin to discuss, you guessed it, organizing tech gatherings / conferences. I was telling Frank how we needed a gathering of sorts in the DC area for all of the tech startups / techies and he said that he and Eric just announced they were going to do a TechCocktail in DC. I was so thrilled, and have offered to help Frank and Eric out anyway that I can. They are looking for a few more sponsors as well as tech companies for presenters. If you are either one of those, shoot Frank or Eric and e-mail and let them know you are interested.

This is such a good thing on so many levels. DC is in desperate need of an event like this, but I think we should not stop here. I do hope that Frank and Eric will hold more events like this in the future (in DC of course) and perhaps even expand the concept to a day long conference like event.