Photo by Christsje on FlickrIt’s that spe­cial time again! For the fourth year in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Web­stock con­fer­ence.

Once again,  we’ll be at the Fork and Brew­er, upstairs in Bond Street, from 5.30pm on Wednes­day Feb­ru­ary 13. Spot us by our Web­stock satchels,  Insta­gram­ming and warm, wel­com­ing smiles (and also by the handy sign — we’ll be to the left at the top of the stairs). If you are into that sort of thing, we’re call­ing it #4wwww (for Welling­ton­ista Webstock Wednes­day Warmup, and also cos it’s the fourth year in a row).

This is an excel­lent time to catch up with the peo­ple you only see once a year or so, talk tech, drink beer (or what­ev­er else you fan­cy), flirt, find new friends to sit with dur­ing the con­fer­ence, put faces to Twit­ter han­dles and just gen­er­al­ly have a good time. Even if you’re not going to Web­stock, you’re very wel­come, but be warned, you may feel very jeal­ous.

If you’re from out of town and haven’t booked your hotel yet, we made some sug­ges­tions last year, and would hap­pi­ly add The Rydges to those rec­om­men­da­tions. And if you can’t join us on the day, we can tell you where to go while you’re in Welling­ton any­way.

Twtvite is here, Face­book event is here.

(This isn’t an offi­cial Web­stock event, but they do like us, promise! And it’s been going for long enough that it’s pret­ty much part of the offi­cial cal­en­dar)