August 2006

Living and working in London, I thought it'd be worthwhile to check out the local mac 'scene', so I looked up the London Mac Users Group (LMUG). Now I've been to meetings like these before - 2600 Sydney, London but this the first time I've been to one specifically about a particular product - Mac.

It was good to see everyone so keen about Mac and Mac related products, and when they found out I worked for Skype they were keen to get me to lead a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Skype for Mac. I fielded plenty of questions about Skype for Mac and Skype in general - ranging from "What is Skype?" to fairly technical discussions about the workings of Skype.

Outside the SIG I ran, they discussed annoucements in the Mac space, and ran an open discussion for people with general Mac questions which was quite helpful for those who weren't overly technically versed. So if you're in London and interested in some of the sessions they run, check out the LMUG, they are a good (non profit) bunch. As far as I know they run on the second monday of every month and charge £3 for non-members. There was also a raffle for a wireless Mighty Mouse, which I didn't win

Thanks to everyone who has given us feedback on Skype for Mac 1.5 Beta in the forums and also here in the blog comments. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the new features and get your input on how you’d like to see Skype for Mac improve in the future.

To help us improve the new features we’ve added and dream up new ones for the future please register for our survey now.

So you can see we've been working hard to bring you all a great new version of Skype for Mac. But we want to make it better for you, and to help us to do so we are looking for more great people to work in the Mac team.

We've made a posting on our Job site and the specific job details can be found here. So if you're a hotshot Objective C/Cocoa coder and willing to relocate to Tallinn, we would love to hear from you!

If you're planning on attending WWDC this year you can always chat to one of our current developers - Janno Teelem, who will be attending this year about what it's like working for such a great company. Keep an eye out for him.