{"id":553,"date":"2024-04-25T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T08:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designforweb.org\/notes\/?p=553"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:20:56","slug":"the-return-of-the-webpeeps-meet-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designforweb.org\/notes\/the-return-of-the-webpeeps-meet-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The return of the webpeeps meet-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When asked to define what I do in a few words, I always put \u201c<\/em>webdesign \u2022 love it ~ do it ~ teach it\u201d as it sums up my professional activites so nicely. I love my split of work ~ I do love doing design work ~ and I do love teaching it too. And teaching means that I am very lucky to meet a lot of absolutely lovely people \u30c4 Many of them I still keep in touch with, some have changed paths – others have progressed to work in web, within their chosen fields. What a joy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Memories \u30c4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This collage of photos captures happy memories, just look at all these happy faces ~ students I taught at Tower Hamlets College many, many years ago as well as students I taught at the University of Greenwich. These photos were taken in class when we had guest speakers visiting, at the Talk Web Design Conference and at our meet-ups. How wonderful to look back at those days of enthusiastic people coming together as one happy web community \u30c4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We used to get together for exhibitions. For the then-common monthly meet-ups. For web conferences. For summer picnics. We ended up organising a semi-regular meet-ups ~ just to keep in touch.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Getting together again<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Over time with busier lives all around, our meet-ups fizzled out, with the pandemic they had to stop altogether. And we’ve not had the chance to bring back our little get-togethers. Now, the time’s come to set some dates and resume. It would be too much of a shame to lose touch and only to see each other at the yearly State of the Browser<\/a> conference ~ which had become almost like a family reunions for us, the one time we’d see each other every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a little video, taken by Antony, on our last day of teaching in April 2022 ~ onto more of those happy times \u30c4<\/p>\n\n\n

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To get the ball rolling again, I’ve now started up a newsletter to keep everyone updated. The plan is to meet up the first wednesday of the month and the newsletter will be sent out one week ahead of time ~ hopefully making it easier to plan ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fancy joining us? ~ you’re most welcome to subscribe \u30c4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

See you there!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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PS: writing this post reminds me of one of the most wonderful thank-you gifts I ever received, from the class of 2011 (on the \u2018design for web\u2019 course I ran for 10 years at Tower Hamlets College) ~ thebestwebdesigncourseinlondonbypriscawhorocks.co.uk<\/a>. Awww… those were the days \u30c4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the joy of our own meet-ups \u30c4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designforweb.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designforweb.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designforweb.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designforweb.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designforweb.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.designforweb.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/www.designforweb.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designforweb.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designforweb.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designforweb.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}