Earlier this year, I made a post talking about my involvement with Chatfor10. I am happy to say that Chatfor10 has been going from strength to strength. They are now going by ChatLoop, are part of UQ’s iLab germinate accelerator and working towards a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to build the Chatloop app. I am, however, have not been involved with ChatLoop for quite some time. I dropped out months ago when it became clear that they needed me to commit more time then I was willing or able to commit. But I am still a believer and supporter of ChatLoop and will be cheering them on when they participate in iLab UQ Germinate 12 Pitch and Investor Demo Night!

Speaking of Chatfor10, the last time I mentioned them on this blog, it was in the context of DevStart. I am sad to say that DevStart too is no more. Trish Khoo, the founder of DevStart did her level best to get the meetup off the ground, and I did my small part organising the May talk with Chatfor10, but the Brisbane meetup scene is just too crowded. The amount of effort it took to organise speakers wasn’t worth the turnout and Trish decided to call it quits. I considered taking over as the sole organiser, but I couldn’t think of what I could do differently to attract more people. Brisbane just has too many events, meetups and other things of a similar nature. So yes, it’s sad, but sometimes you have to pull the plug.