The third week of the Guardian’s Developer Drop-in is now reaching its climax. We’ve got a few more updates for you, as well as a round-up of what’s happening next.
Firstly, thank you all, to everyone who’s come along so far. There’s still space for the final week, so you can still pop by.
A few days have been quiet, but given the lack of precedent for this sort of thing (we believe no-one else has done this before, let alone a daily newspaper), we’re not put off. Quieter days have seen people working in our canteen – it overlooks the Regent’s Canal, and offers distractions in the form of goslings.
Our busiest days seem to be when there’s been a meet-up, or a talk in the evening. We’re passionate about technology and host a variety of tech events at our King’s Cross office. We’ve also seen people using the drop-in as a way to avoid rush hour trains; it’s not just the warm-up act for the evening’s beer and pizza.
One thing you asked for is a calendar. We’ve done this, and if we say so ourselves, the last full week looks pretty good. As you’ll see, we do have a couple of speaking slots available.
Additionally, those who’ve attended, or are due to attend, the drop-ins are invited to come along to the Guardian’s daily editorial briefing (during May), at 10am. Spaces are limited. If you’re interested in coming, please indicate which day) along with your name, email it to Emma Mulqueeny.
The latest events pick up from the skills in-house, on interactive content, more on how guardian.co.uk works, and how machine learning can enable developers to make large sets of text documents more interesting and open to readers.
Times and dates in the Google Calendar.
We’ll be announcing, in the next blog post, more about our special guest(s) for the season finale.
We really hope you might be able to drop-in. We’d like to be able to say that the tech community wants these, and to have the drop-in continue, maybe on a weekly basis.
See you from 4pm throughout working days in May.