TerminusDB community arrived in London
Tags: meetup, techeducation, opensource
Published: 2020-03-16 21:13:40

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We had our first meetup in London last Tuesday at the beautiful Microsoft Reactor located in the centre of the city! Members of the TerminusDB team from Dublin and Berlin came to visit the community. Of course, there were pizzas and lots of beers!

> We have lots of nice beer at Microsoft Reactor Meetup space, come have some. [pic.twitter.com/tUsgF5GZCw](https://t.co/tUsgF5GZCw)
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> — Dmytri Kleiner (@dmytri) [February 11, 2020](https://twitter.com/dmytri/status/1227295076218482688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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We got so much love for our swags! London Terminators participated and won our e-coffee mugs that made out of bamboo. I hope they will bring them in when buying their morning dose of coffee in their favourite coffee shops. Also, we gave out lots of our Cowduck stickers and T-shirts. Cowduck is winning the heart of Terminators!

> Loving the logo and looking forward to learning more [#TerminusDB](https://twitter.com/hashtag/TerminusDB?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) !!!! [pic.twitter.com/JWKlERYLuU](https://t.co/JWKlERYLuU)
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> — Ed Outhwaite (@allyrdatarb2us) [February 11, 2020](https://twitter.com/allyrdatarb2us/status/1227307800419864578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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Luke, our Commercial Lead, gave a warm welcome to all the Terminators. He told a story about the origin of Cowduck and announced a competition that you don’t wanna miss (£100 Amazon gift coupon, swags and speaking opportunities!) Make sure you enter before 17th March 2020 (St. Patrick’s Day!).

> It is COMPETITION time! 🥳🥳🥳  
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> Use UK Parliament Data with TerminusDB to do something interesting and win prizes!   
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> Details:[https://t.co/SEnsncy4Jj](https://t.co/SEnsncy4Jj)
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> — TerminusDB (@TerminusDB) [February 12, 2020](https://twitter.com/TerminusDB/status/1227592043486158850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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Our BDFL (benevolent dictator for life) Gavin Mendel-Gleason gave a talk about the internals of TerminusDB. It covers a lot of the design that explains why TerminusDB can store data like git and do it in an efficient way. Our Terminators are very interested and asked a lot of questions. Slides can be found here.

> We ♥️ [#London](https://twitter.com/hashtag/London?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/6rnJYCW1CL](https://t.co/6rnJYCW1CL)
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> — TerminusDB (@TerminusDB) [February 11, 2020](https://twitter.com/TerminusDB/status/1227311804512161794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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After a short break, we continued with a short workshop in creating a knowledge graph with bike hire data. It was a great success as most of our Terminators has created a graph with no problems! Terminators are smart! In case you missed it or if you want to revisit the tutorial, we have a step by step guide here in [this blog](https://medium.com/terminusdb/my-first-terminusdb-graph-visualisation-bike-share-data-39c59a1ab86a?source=friends_link&sk=2f877df5dcb2f00b9e4e85d5088f015e).

> Pretty detailed live workshop for [@TerminusDB](https://twitter.com/TerminusDB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) and get to meet all the core devs [pic.twitter.com/JhwY3eDsJs](https://t.co/JhwY3eDsJs)
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> — Steven Lee (@kynrai) [February 11, 2020](https://twitter.com/kynrai/status/1227327544044773382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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In case you missed it, we have the recordings available:

[TerminusDB in LDN Part 1](https://youtu.be/_XnnJJ5AlP0)

[TerminusDB in LDN - Part 2 (workshop)](https://youtu.be/kkaRYBZqeCM)

A big thank you for Microsoft Reactor for hosting us! We would love to be back to London very soon to meet you all and provide more interesting and educational talks and workshops! To catch news and updates of the community, visit [https://community.terminusdb.com/](https://community.terminusdb.com/). Don’t forget to join the [Slack channel](http://bit.ly/terminusdb-slack) to keep in touch!

> [#Swag](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Swag?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) from [@TerminusDB](https://twitter.com/TerminusDB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)  
> Check it out [https://t.co/yFCOgn4C16](https://t.co/yFCOgn4C16)
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> — Dipal Thakker 💬 (@Dipal) [February 11, 2020](https://twitter.com/Dipal/status/1227307932834029569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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