As you can read on
Juzzi's report of meeting, we met a couple of important people in the Messenger community.
The meeting was fantastique and also very unique (one of a kind meeting) as Joost told us later. (sic: though let's hope more will follow
). It was held in the "
In De Wildeman" in Amsterdam. A nice causey little pub specialized in hundreds of different beers from all over the world. (sic: They couldn't have found a better place IMO!! I'll sure return to that pub when I'm in A'dam again)
The MSN people came a little later as intended. Nevertheless, the meeting went on well after what was announced in the invitation we got.
After half an hour Joost got a phone call (or something, or he SMS'd, dunno anymore) from another dude and he would come over also. In short, and after a while there were 6 MSN people instead of the announced 3
Because it was in a pub and because we were with many people we all chatted away (what else do you do in a pub, except drinking
). Unfortunatly, because of this it was very hard to follow every (very interesting!) conversation. Nevertheless, I bet many people would give their right hand for knowing some stuff (just teasing
).
Before I went to the meeting I had put all the questions (well almost) asked here in this thread and in the thread
on mess.be on paper.
Joost seemed to be very anxious to start answering them. He actually asked a pen and started to write down the answers (to the questions he could answer that is). It almost seemed like an examination, lol. Most questions were discussed, etc...
Anyways, unfortunatly I had to leave at 21u10 because the last train to Belgium departed at 21u23. I sure wanted to stay though. So, the group photo was taken (best one will be the one taken by Inky, so stay tuned), shaked hands and said goodbye (until online).
Juzzi also left at that point to catch his train. We had to run to the station because we were really short in time. And damn, my condition is worse then I thought
Arrived at the station (and more dead than alive, at least I was, Juzzi had no trouble at all
), we looked at the departure monitor. His train arrived at platform 1 or something, just only 10m away. Of course, mine... platform 14... DOH! So there I found myself running again (I better stayed at the pub
)
Anyways, that was my short, but extremely interesting meeting with the MSN people...
PS: Joost loves to annoy his contacts with the nudge feature (shhhht.... I didn't say this )
EDIT: oh, one last thing which was very clear: They are always seeking new, fresh ideas and programmers/developpers. So if you're up to it, get in contact!
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Originally posted by groessl35
I noticed that you guys will get to invite 5-10 others
or maybe 10-20 as I already am on the closed beta tester team (and haven't used my invites yet) 
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