{"id":1760,"date":"2014-10-10T08:05:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2015-09-05T22:22:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T22:22:38","slug":"saveiotlondon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/saveiotlondon\/","title":{"rendered":"Help save iot.london"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s a really boring auction going on that I&#8217;m taking part in. iot.london is up for auction. As I&#8217;ve been running the meetup for three years and own iotlondon.com and .co.uk I&#8217;m hoping to win this one. I love the community that has grown around this topic in what I consider to be the best city in the world to develop new products and ideas around this space. I also think noone should commercially be able to brand it. So I&#8217;m hoping I&#8217;ll win the auction. There are 2 other bidders and we&#8217;re up to \u00a3205 but there has to be a period of 24h after the last bidder for the auction to end so this could take a while. If you&#8217;d like to help me out donate to a dot sonsino at gmail dot com on Paypal. I&#8217;ve had some wonderful donations from around the world and would like to particularily thank <a href=\"http:\/\/russelldavies.typepad.com\/\">Russell Davies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/benhammersley.com\/\">Ben Hammersley<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Milinkovich\">Mike Milinkovich<\/a> from the Eclipse Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I won! At \u00a3225, I won the auction finally after 5 days. I received a total of \u00a3580 in donations from the following people:<\/p>\n<p>Matt Webb, Fintan Ryan, Benjamin Cab\u00e9, Gianfranco Chicco, Andrew J Savery, Liam Lynch, Benjamin Tomlinson, Gareth Klose, Lawrence Archard, Rob van Kranenburg, Russell Davies, Adrian Godwin, Ben Hammersley, Dan Lockton,\u00a0Mark Setrem Anna Bradley, David Weaver, Boris Adryan, Nicholas O&#8217;Leary.<\/p>\n<p>To all of them, I am very grateful.<\/p>\n<p>I was happy to cover at least \u00a3100 of the cost of the URL so with the remaining \u00a3455 I will give away cash prizes at our bi-annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/iotlondon\">London Internet of Things<\/a> Showcase which will take place on December 16th this year. I hope this pleases everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s a really boring auction going on that I&#8217;m taking part in. iot.london is up for auction. As I&#8217;ve been running the meetup for three years and own iotlondon.com and .co.uk I&#8217;m hoping to win this one. 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