Close the books on this one, today was the first gathering of the Northern Virginia Open Coffee Club and it was a success. Thanks to everyone who made it out, especially given that today was the start of the first summer holiday. We had some very good discussions ranging from general industry discussions, to business ideas to specific technology discussions around Ruby and Apollo.

Everyone agreed that this was a great start to something that we all hope will continue to grow. We will continue to meet on a regular basis, somewhere between every other week to perhaps once a month. We will work with The DC Open Coffee club to ensure that we do not overlap and perhaps even do a combined gathering once a month. For now we will continue to meet at the same Starbucks until we outgrow it.

In the spirit of the Open Coffee Club, we kept it very informal, no name tags, etc. As we continue to grow the group, hopefully we will be able to incorporate a demo or two here and there, and hopefully be able to bounce ideas off one another and foster lasting partnerships.

If you did not make it to this one, sorry we missed you. There will be an announcement shortly on the next one, come by if you get the chance.