A busy  Open Coffee Kraków this foggy morning. Paweł Majka from the Krakow City Government's enterprise support department came. This is very good news.  We hope it is the start of a trend.    Only about 15 people at 08:00 but 43 by the time the meeting closed.   If I made mistakes or left you out apologies.. a blogger volunteer would be welcome. I explained the rules and idea. (more detail here  ) everyone can have 1-2 minutes: Telling others present   who you are,  where you are from, what you are doing, what you want, how we can help you and what you can offer. The introductions to everyone stops and networking happens at 09:00. English preferred, Polish OK. We welcome foreigners in Kraków,  have a historical role as a trading centre, and are against nationalist, xenophobic trends West and especially East of Poland).  It’s no problem if you are not an Entrepreneur, or a Geek. Geeks and Entrepreneurs are welcome. Anyone positive minded is welcome, whether investor, employer/employee, future business partner, clients, suppliers or someone who just wants to promote their project. People who make it by 08:00 in the morning to our events  – which start on time –  are a step or two ahead. Here is what was shared this morning and we had the pleasure to host:

1 Rafał Samborski CEO at Elner, Project Manager at Unico Software have 7 restaurants in Krakow and one in Warsaw using their Android App. "I'm CEO of Elmer. We're Krakow startup that's going to change the way we communicate with restaurants.looking for seed funding"

2 Joanna Formella OpenCoffeeKRK Volunteer, native German speaker. She is looking for speakers and workshop organisers for Women's Entrepreneurship Day

3 Pawel Kołodziej IT Project Manager at Serwisy branżowe xtech.pl Sp. z o.o. wrote "I'm a member of board at xtech.pl, i'm looking for marketing advisor, a person who will share knoledge with xtech.pl.

4 and also looking for exciting projects for our IT team see it.xtech.pl. http://www.automatyka.pl  http://it.xtech.pl”

5 William Shaw told us about his English language psychotherapy and relatoinship councilling practice and his free workshop  here  http://william-shaw.com

6 Richard Lucas told about http://www.ambasadakrakowian.pl/ as a great place for NGOs and volunteers to host events and..

7 described the Wintrepreneurs meeting he hosted in London last week in Google Campus using Open Coffee Krakow format. Wintrepreneurs page here

8 Paweł Majka  from the President of Krakow's office attended. Have local government officials responsible for  supporting enterprise attending our meetings is something that is very welcome.

9 Sue Młeczko told us about her involvement in international education and how she is looking for a new project here in Kraków

10 Bogusia Luka works for Uniwersytet Dzieci (the Children’s University) and is looking for schools to use their new products  http://www.scenariuszelekcji.edu.pl

11 Marzena Wieczorek writes "I'm a director of ProActivate Ireland, an NGO from the West coast of Ireland

Marzena is looking for experienced project managers to partner with/ she runs projects for http://www.proactivate.ie

12 Marta Ryłko Open Coffee Krakow founder - talked about the Lifetramp.com career testing platform, and  13 Brainly.com. Brainly closed a US$9 mln investment round  and is hiring.  www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/brainly-expands-to-us-with-9m-venture-funding-led-by-general-catalyst-279269232.html

13 Tomasz Ozon Embedded SW Developer Hardware and software engineer looking for projects to join to. involved in this Tram Simulator  http://pclab.pl/art42115.html

14 Łukasz Siatka volunteer at  Open Coffee Girl Geek Carrots many events told us about  http://devfest.pl  15 zloty  8th November - He's a sound designer, sound engineer, OSX86 scene developer, workstations (mobile and desktop) builder Music producer and sound effects designer for products (videos, games, etc.), events co-organizer & helper GDG Dev Fest 2014 Krakow Co-Organizerhttp://devfest2014.pl

15 Richard Lucas talked about the TEDxKazimierz team and informatino meeting he is hosting this evening at JCC in Kazimierz at 18:00. Find out and be invited to the meeting here   He is organising TEDxKazimierz and looking for TED and TEDx fans who want to help make it happen. launch meeting goals, team building explain vision roles, tasks, to dos. If you cannot make and you are interested in in helping, let him  know. Hope to facilitate joining by Skype and Hangout

TEDxKazimierz will serve the Kazimierz community, giving great people, ideas and projects in Kazimierz a global stage, while bringing inspiring, relevant or/and wonderful people, ideas and projects to Kazimierz. TEDxKazimierz will aim to serve and build community among TED and TEDx fans in the area, and be an event that enables people who want to share, learn and contribute to Kazimierz to strengthen their existing connections and forge new ones. The event will be run in the spirit of TED, of the free voluntary sharing of ideas worth spreading and all team members should enter into the spirit of co-operation with other team members, other TEDx-s in Krakow, Poland, and around the world.

16 Daniel di Gusto  North Star  Consulting  keen to get involved startup community.  Running Start-up Mintia.com, Pitch2 Program - B2B sales training on 14th-15th November http://pitchprogram.pl/ Krakow Tech Park

17 Antonina Sudnik :-( brought two Ukrainian software guys Titania and Alexander from Ukraine  who have a CRM software for pharmacies business.

18 Richard Lucas said that we are committed to supporting Ukrainians as best we can.

19 Kamil Łopata talk about new special offers from Colab.pl co working space includign low cost high speed translation from  http://turbotlumaczenia.pl and the

20 http://startupclass.samaltman.com Monday evening viewing events they are hosting, and

21 Colab Open Coffee meetings

22 Piotr Szczesny SME advisor at Poznanski Park Naukowo-Technologiczny is in Krakow for few days and would like to meet creative people. He works in inqbator.pl in Poznań.

23 Konrad Głowacki is building a low cost  SLS 3d printer. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering

24 Richard mentioned the cool new Zortrax 3D store opening last week

25 Darek talked about the Smart Med community of people who are into medical technology he is building  https://www.facebook.com/BigIdeas.SmartMed

26 Anna Godek-Biniasz New Media Manager at Zetha Media has new mobile projects and wants to help Polish startups enter the UK market via  their website http://www.polishexpress.co.uk