Night Apes Dream

As part of getting out and meeting people other than my usual crowd of hospitality workers, I attended an event called Tequp last night. Tequp is a regular meeting of “artists, musicians and tech heads to talk about anything at all”. I think the tech heads certaintly outweighed everybody else, but I still managed to look like I knew what I was talking about most of the time.

It was a truly fascinating bunch of people who turned up. A rough roll call from memory yields

• Console game coders
• Flash game developers
• The CEO of Plasq
• A recent graduate from the Google Summer of Code
• Someone working on secret stuff for a telecommunications company (nuff said)
• A stack of other web dev people

This was my second Tequp, and they are a really enjoyable evenings. Everybody is very excited to chat about other peoples projects and to hear what others are working on. They are hosted by the very friendly Jonathan and Betti Wrigley, and currently held in their shop, Xero.

Attending things like this really reminds me of how cool a city Melbourne is. More than anywhere else I have lived, it seems that in Melbourne everybody is doing. Every person you meet seems to have some other project or secret life you don’t know about. It can be very daunting at times, but is also very exciting.

Melbourne Tequp has a Facebook page if you’re interested in attending.