Tonight sees Old Broadcasting House hosting a special edition of GeekUp Leeds (a grassroots community for web developers, designers and technologists), with guest speaker Christian Heilmann of Yahoo! UK.

Christian’ll be talking about the Yahoo! User Interface Library and his work with the Web Standards Project.

Oh - did we mention there’ll be a free bar, serving complimentary drinks and snacks

Let the organisers know you’re coming at Upcoming.

UPDATE: More at the NTI Leeds website… 

I awoke this morning to Twitters from coworking gurus Chris Messina and Tara Hunt pointing to a pair of articles - in the New York Times and SF Gate - covering the burgeoning culture of coworking across the globe…

• Shared word spaces a wave of the future
• They’re Working on Their Own, Just Side by Side

There’re some interesting insights including larger companies - Timbuk2 - setting aside their own corporate space for use by coworkers and the serendipity that’s accompanying coworking communities in various locations - how business and creative opportunities form quite organically between freelancers and people sharing a space…all without too much overhead.

We’re starting to see that here at Old Broadcasting House too - with residents collaborating on events like tonight’s special edition of GeekUp.

In the next few weeks, we hope the number of residents reaches a critical mass where such serendepitous opportunites and collaboration are commonplace; we’re gonna try help this along with themed coworking days as pioneered by Manchester’s Paul Robinson.