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5 years ago today a small event kicked off Salesforce Craziness


It was a small event in the upstairs of ‘Kings Stores‘ pub, near Liverpool Street station, but it was the beginning of a real Salesforce community in London. 23rd June 2011 at 5pm, 5 years ago today around 30 or 40 people squeezed into the upstairs room of the pub for the first London Salesforce Admin & Developer user group. Organised by Wes Nolte, Anup & Bruce the event was tagged onto the end of a Tquila company meeting (from what I remember, they did like to have their meetings in pubs). I did a talk on Talend Open Studio (a free open source ETL tool) and how to connect it to Salesforce. The great ObiWan JeffNobi (Jeff Douglas) who at the time was working for Appirio and had flown over from the US did an unforgettable talk… so good in fact I can’t remember it. Sorry Jeff! Anup did a talk on a dynamic VisualForce component.

But since then we have grown… and grown and we now have seven… yes seven London Salesforce user groups in London:

  1. London Salesforce Business User Group
  2. London Salesforce Admin User Group
  3. UK Non-Profit User Group
  4. London Salesforce Developer user group
  5. Women in Tech Salesforce user group
  6. Salesforce UK Public Sector User Group
  7. Pardot User group

But that’s not all also have user groups around the country from Brighton to Bristol, Cambridge to Edinburgh and now into Europe!

Find your nearest user group here.

The first meetup wasn’t recorded but the second user group was and is still online “Team Development Strategies and Tools on the Force.com Platform“. I also managed to find a couple of the tweets from the day:

(thanks to Mike Gill for the photos!)

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5 Comments


  1. Shaun Holmes

    June 23, 2016 at 8:34 am

    URLS for:
    Bristol Business User Group: http://www.forcewst.com
    Surf Force Welsh User Group: http://www.surfforce.co
    Bristol Developer User Group: http://www.meetup.com/Bristol-Salesforce-Platform-Developer-User-Group/

  2. Bob Buzzard

    June 23, 2016 at 12:12 pm

    Not forgetting poor old Cathy Douglas, Jeff’s wife who was lucky enough to get to attend on her vacation!

  3. Sergey

    June 23, 2016 at 2:10 pm

    and Benelux user groups 🙂 http://beneluxusergroups.com/

  4. Radnip

    June 24, 2016 at 11:01 pm

    oh yes 🙂 forgot that…

  5. Michael Gill

    June 27, 2016 at 10:03 am

    Remember it well. We have come along way. 🙂

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