It looks as if TIGUK is on its way to becoming a reality. I hope we can make it absolutely amazing!! A group of us met up recently to decide on what we want to do and how we can move forward. The main ideas involve providing a greater platform for people to have their say in government, helping with local IT clubs, mentorship, using student unions to get to more young people, providing workhops and a TIG café serving as a place for info and networking, IT, huge board games and fair trade chocolate (yay!) which I personally am very excited about, but it might be too ambitious. I don’t want to let myself get too excited because there are niggling worries that it might not work probably from my previous experience a year or so ago when I tried to set it up. I tried really hard in all the ways I could think of to find other people to do it with me (i.e not just helping), putting adverts in publications, attending lots of conferences and so on. But at least I made some good friends and contacts along the way.
Sometimes effort really isn’t enough, everything has to be in the right place for it to work maybe… the right people for the engine to work have to come along. It looks they have now, and if you are reading this I was very glad to meet you all! Thanks especially to Luke for his can-do, hardworking attitude.