A couple of weeks ago we had a small pub meet-up. It was sandwiched between various other events and at this time of year everyone seems to be ultra busy, hence the smallness.

But Gregory Marler was there! He was down from durhamsestershire and taking in the OSMLondon pub meet-up as well as the London Mapping Festival event the next day.

"London Mapping Festival" is all a bit corporate. They didn't want OpenStreetMap to be a part of it without paying ....several hundred pounds to have our logo badly resized on the scrolling javascript banner there. That's not really the kind of thing (not-for-profit) OpenStreetMap has gone for historically (Right now, several hundred pounds is all that we need finish off our donation drive for new servers) but maybe in the coming years, as we start sorting out budgets for promotion things. In the meantime I guess we'll just carry on weedling into the geodata industry via the backdoor. In fact that's exactly what we did at this LMFest showcase event. Not only did we send Mr livingwithdragons, but Steve Chilton was there with a stand representing the Society of Cartographers, but also bigging up OpenStreetMap. Nice one Steve!

But anyway... In the Mulberry Bush pub I had time to chat for a little while, but then I had to head home to take part in a Management Team conference call. At least that was my plan, but I got home and it turned out that I'd got the timings mixed up. I had missed it two hours earlier. Andy however had been at home on the management team conf call at the right time, and then cycled to the pub, by which time, because there weren't many people around and even *I* had left, everyone had already decided to go their separate ways. D'oh! Having screwed all that up, late that evening I also screwed up the timing of the HOT chat, causing some people to meet and have a chat two hours earlier than everyone else. All said and done, not a good day for Harry time-keeping.

There'll be no such slip-ups tomorrow because I have no conference calls or meetings at the same time. No no. Tomorrow I shall dedicate myself to the OSM pub. Well after all, it is the OpenStreetMap Christmas Party!!!!1!!.

As mentioned previously, I have been too busy to promote this much, so everyone else has been promoting it for me right? ....right? Sign up on lanyrd to show your love... or don't bother (It's not required). I'm looking forward to it. How come we haven't been to the Old Cheshire cheese in a while? It's an awesome pub. Should make a nice venue for cosy mappy christmas meet-up. I'll be there from 4p.m. onwards. Did I mention this is tomorrow!?