March 10th marks the club’s first anniversary.  It’s been a year of learning and growth and we’ve attracted almost 15 people to meetings over the period.
 

There are Startup-minded people in Victoria.  Between our meetings and the spontaneously scheduled Web Developer Lunch, I’d guess there are probably several dozen people working on their startup ideas around town. (Yes, there are the monthly Viatec breakfasts in Sidney also, but it draws people from more mature organizations).
 

Many people have expressed a desire to join us, but haven’t made it out due to family obligations, job obligations or just the early meeting time.  This has me thinking that perhaps a move to a monthly “OpenBeer” meeting might be more appropriate for our town?  Or, maybe we organize a regular monthly lunch somewhere?
 

Victoria OpenCoffee Club has a new Facebook group, please consider joining and adding your voice.
 

All members of the Victoria Open Coffee Club are encouraged to create an account on this site (there should be a sign-up link to the lower right of the main home page). These accounts will be enabled with the permission to create and edit posts to the site. There are always thoughts or questions that originate at the meeting and could be explored in further detail by the attendees and community members at-large — and everyone is probably getting tired of hearing from only one voice on this site.
 

My thoughts are that having our own site is preferable to maintaining a community or discussion forum on Linkedin or Facebook, but I could be wrong. Should we own our community or bring it to where people hang out?