Hello fellows,
Wednesday, August, 26th, 2009 we are kicking off the our first Open Coffee Club in Kolkata.
As my pal Sumit (one of the mainstays of this brilliant effort) has already put it in his blog:
"You may already be aware of OCC. Its simply bringing your work to a casual place, work, meet people, share, get work done, make contacts. Having a common place for everyone to meet is important. The original concept is geared more towards entrepreneurs but we want to keep it wider in meaning and appeal. So any working professional, entrepreneur, consultant or anyone interested can join in. Kolkata is way less active in these aspects and we want to change that. I hope you will find it as interesting as we imagine it to be."
I've expressed my desire to be apart of this wonderful effort and have promised Sumit unconditional support. We all want Kolkata to be at par with all the cities organising OCCs, and through our dedicated and honest approach we're sure to make this an unequivocal success !
The plan and the place:
At the start we wanted to have one date and place, but as you all know, and as Sumit puts it - "Kolkata traffic is a mess". Moreover people from North Kolkata find it difficult travelling all the way to south, and vice versa. We also had to keep in mind that as days pass our attendees would increase. So we had to find a spot which can accommodate the incoming traffic.
After a lot of brainstorming we have initially decided and zeroed on two places, and two days:
Wednesdays 11 AM to 6PM Cafe Coffee Day, Salt Lake Sector V., below RDB Boulevard (which is more or less a fixed venue after the initial success)
and Saturdays 11 AM to 6PM Cafe Coffee Day, Park Street, near Music World, opposite KFC (we are yet to finalise a venue in south central Kolkata, we're trying to have talks with the CCD management)
We've also planned to have another one on Saturday, 29th August @ Cafe Coffee Day, Park Street. Please drop in later to find more about it and also a short report on what happened on our first meet.. Stay tuned.
Thanks.
Read more on Open Coffee Clubs: http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/
Why a fixed venue? Read: http://localglobe.blogspot.com/2007/02/opencoffee-club.html
