Andrew Ford Lyons

I’ve joined a couple of web developer meetups in London, one through meetup.org and the other through Google. Both are full of brainy people and free nibbles.

The Minibar is a popular regular meetup in Shoreditch for internet professionals to network and swap ideas and offers monthly face time to people more prone to staring at screens. If you’ve got a marketable idea this is the place to find people with the skills to make it possible, with upwards of around 150 web developers, programmers, designers, etc., from around the city attending at a single go.

The other is the Google London Open Source Jam.These are theme-driven nights at Google’s London HQ at Belgrave House. Marvel at the working environment that keeps people in the office 12 hours or more a day, the open kitchen area and hear ideas that could well be the future of open source and possibly the web itself.

To me this one is pure brain candy. I dig the 7-minute open-to-all presentation period where people trot out what they’re working on in rapid-fire sessions and then face an onslought of suggestsions, questions and critiques in a sort of Dragons Den for smart people.

Cannot say that a good amount isn’t flying well over my php/mysql head at times, but the end result is a clear idea of what’s out there and what’s to come in the coming years.

Tags: Google London Open Source Jam, The MiniBar

The Top 5ive Project is something that’s been simmering for a while in the conceptual stage and now’s the time to make it real. It’s a social experiment, a multi-revenue stream venture, a collaborative tool, a date finder, a friend finder, a group finder, a shopping outlet and a piece of cultural and social commentary. Multiple revenue streams and multiple uses. As much of an art installation as a business venture and online social tool. The Top 5ive Project questions how we use the internet to relate to one another even as it is a social tool itself that pushes the envelope over what 2.0 web tools provide.

This is a collaborative project. Partners required. Share the work and the rewards equally. Needed:

• Programmer
• Social Networks application specialist
• Graphic designer
• Marketing Director

Contact me through this form, using “The Top 5ive Project” as the subject. Let me know what you’ve worked on in the past and give me a link to it if it’s active somewhere online. If you look to be a good match, I’ll send you the access key for this background document.

Tags: The Top 5ive Project

Welcome to my CV site. Suffice to say, if you’re looking at this site around the time I’m writing this post, there’s not much here that’s of use. I’m not promising that there will be much here of use to you later, either, but hopefully there will be something here sooner or later that will be of interest.  My more-updated site can be found here.

I created this website to accomplish a couple of things: To be a place to maintain an updated resumé and advertise projects in need of people out there with specialized skills.

Over the course of the next few days I’m planning to populate this site projects past, present and future, turn it into a portal for collaborative opportunities.

Contact me by clicking here.

Tags: Curriculum Vitae