Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot Effect, Live and In Person
Thread writes "This group is getting together slashdot readers all over the world. Check out slashdot.meetup.com to meet up with Slashdot readers in your town." The meetup.com site is pretty much brand new, and it's a fun idea. We thought this was kind of a cool idea and something a bunch of people have asked for in email and in past stories so we thought "let's see what happens."
But do I REALLY want to meet some of the people here...I think not :)
:)
Stay on your side of the net and I'll stay on mine
If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
I do not live in the US, and I do not live in any of the (major) cities given. If I were actually interested, what would I do?
Sig: Where I'd put something witty if I could think of it.
...I'm early...
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
Can I show up as an AC?
I have been pwned because my
It seems that the /. readers I know are already near me, but getting a chance to meet other prominant members could be interesting.
;)
Hmmm.... Should I post my trips to Ecuador? Or are most of the readers from the US?
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Nearly got a First Post for the ACs....
fp
Now I can have hoards of slashdot readers slashdot my front door.
In college, really poor, need a flatscreen.
Most of you people are repulsive enough without meeting you face to face.
--
Theo DeRaadt
Founder, OpenBSD project.
What do we say when we meet?
"FIRST POST!"
Its sad when Tyler, Tx shows up as a top location....
Top Locales
Sacramento (2 members)
Midtown/Uptown Manhattan (2 members)
Baton Rouge (1 members)
Vancouver (1 members)
Columbus (1 members)
Du Bois (1 members)
Eau Claire (1 members)
Harrisburg (1 members)
Peoria (1 members)
Steubenville-Weirton (1 members)
Tyler (1 members)
Washington DC (1 members)
Queens (1 members)
Rockville-Gaithersburg (1 members)
North Boston Suburbs (1 members)
Mesa-Scottsdale-Tempe (1 members)
St. Paul-Ramsey County (1 members)
Hmm. Time to see if my boss reads slashdot.
If so, time to start posting anonymously.
--saint
Well, based on the number of them; I expect the whole place to be packed full of pessimists yelling "BSD is dying" and lots of boxing matches between MS and open source zealots ;).
I like karma. Feed me.
There are others like me in my town? I can get 300k downloads off my cablemodem in the evening since there are so few geeks in my area. You think there is enough of us to have a meeting?
What are you smoking! That's why I spend my time here.
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
the horror...
the horror...
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
Holy shit, I might finally get laid!
Oh wait...
nevermind.
Ok, how many of you are also refreshing and watching the slashdot effect in action? How sad are we... =P
Are a lot of sites doing this now?
I just started seeing announcements of Fark parties - I think it's a neat idea, especially for people in other countries.
(Just as long as that goatse guy doesn't show up...)
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
-- My Weblog.
I had this idea but it was slightly different. It was going to be called, meatup.com where meat lovers could get together and talk shop about bar-b-que.
Oh well - back to the grind stone!
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Fondue?
Who wants to meet? Since when are geeks social? Grab your PC and CAT5 and setup a LAN party into the wee hours of the morning.
Ouch! I just had a visual of 50 people all trying to get first post...all in the same room.
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
Any chicks coming???
Or is it going to be like my comp lecture where the ratio of boys to girls is 100:1
You'll know all the first posters when the line up at 5AM for a 3 PM meeting.
"Oh no, 3 horny women and only 2 condoms...Thank god I read slashdot"
the article says we can "shoot the shit" with other nerds in our hometown. Sounds delightful.
3) If we get there first do we get to yell 'FIRST MEET!'???
2) Will there be moderators monitoring our conversations? If so do I get more karma for imported beer?
1) Hey man, if we linked them all up together via video conferencing it would be like a Beowulf cluster of /. meetings!!!
This is going to be the best bash ever!!! Look there's CmdrTaco having a drink with the Goatse Guy!!! Is that Stallman hobnobbing with Trollaxor? Color me surprised, JonKatz has a black eye within the first five minutes that the party started!!!
Best. Idea. Ever.
You're fired.
http://slashdot.meetup.com/top
:)
Now we can easily find out what area of the country has the greatest concentration of us...
While the details have yet to be worked out We're close to being able to offer a complete line of party favours (note: canajen distro per Xtra vowel) for those special /. gatherings. Initially we're offering /. Beer, Condoms and Lotion (for the socially impaired, expected to be our biggest revenue generator). Coming to a location near you. ;)
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
.... haven't of us gone to a local LUG (linux user group) meeting before? No?
If we can't stand to meet face to face, then linux adoption around the globe would be a complete waste of hope.
sig of the day: If wishes were horses poor men would ride.
Tickticker
... my name? coward, anonymous coward.
Live web cams
Wow, there are already 92 people signed up. No one from my area though. Amazing how fast this goes.
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
yes!!!!!! the chance of a lifetime to meet other 1337 g33ks like me who spend there days in front of this white boxen without showering and eating twinkies and drinking code red and... erm... dang... will there be chicks at my meetup?
will i get a chance to mod everyone who annoys me as +1 offtopic??
I support publik eduscatation!
Represent, Central PA! I don't wanna be the only Dubois area nerd!
Blog Prophyts - Right On, Man
And will my karma go to hell if I wear a MS or Intel Shirt?
There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
I think it is worse than that. Slashdot, despite all its claims to being the center of the Open Source community has no real social community to begin with. Compare it to other online forums, such as Ars, FArk and [H]ard, the slashdot posters are really a bunch of anti-socials. Hell, even the forums at Fyag.com are more active than here. So sad, especially when you consider how much talk there is of the "community" here on slashdot.
This may be a good organized way for us to get political representation. This may offer the physical "grouping" needed to effectivly lobby our elected government officials.
Maybe try and invite your local congressman to hold a Q/A thing about technology legislation. It makes it easier to organize petitions. Organize a group drop off to his local office when you know he is in...bring the whole group. Can you think of a better way to make a point? Image if this happened at congressional office all over your county (the US in my case.)
Something like that may be enough of a reason to get me to go to something like this, or at least join the mailing list.
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
Well, it's actually meetup.com's terms, but seems that sites are supposed to adhere. I'm not even sure what this means:
3.3 License. We do not claim ownership of Your Information. We will use Your Information only in accordance with our privacy policy. However, to enable us to use your Public Information and to ensure we do not violate any rights you may have in your Public Information, you agree to grant MEETUP a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in your Public Information, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to your Public Information.
http://slashdot.meetup.com/top
/.ers. Go NY! Ack... Washington is beating us... but...if you take both uptown and downtown manhatten and queens into account... yes, i see it now... It all adds up!
Now we can easily see what part of the country/world has the heaviest concentration of
I'll join your party any day, rather than meet a bunch of nerds.
It'll be interesting to see how many Denver / Boulderites attend this.
Fundamentalism stops a thinking mind.
-Waldo Jaquith
I will be anonymous coward #45
-THIS SPACE FOR RENT!
You get to "moderate" the trolls whether you have points or not.
(cracks knuckles)
I bet this will be a great way to meet women!
I'm sorry, but I'd rather stay at home chatting up guys who *say* they're women than knowing that they're not.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
I noticed that too. Good catch! Would mod you up if I had points!
Lawrence Lessig is my personal hero.
Would there not already be a lot of /.ers at these meetings 2600
OK, what am I supposed to do? I live in Managua! (That's Nicaragua, Central America, for those of you not keeping score at home.) I'm not on the invitation list... :(
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
/. dream chick? do they exist?
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
It's ironic that Slashdot, which is so against crappy EULA's, has created such a un-friendly Terms Agreement.
Quoting the license,
We may amend the Agreement at any time or times by posting the amended terms on our web site. All amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted on our web site. This Agreement is effective for all users of our services.
Does this seem like the "push" system to anyone? What if I'm away for 30 days (vacation) and they create some new crappy Terms like "you must pay us $$$ per $$$ and you can no longer terminate this agreement?" Maybe I'm just paranoid; otherwise, there's something wrong w/ this.
or somthing like that
Why not just join up with one of them? They are well organized and have been going on for years. /. probably shares much of the same crowd anyway (with perhaps a few less Mitnick fans).
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
somebody let them know the female t-shirt they show under the "Buy crap to wear at your MEETUP" step will be unnecessary.
four-oh-four
I find it supremely interesting to see the # of members at this site tick up every minute. I wonder if anyone has done an analysis of time from post to time host server goes down when a news item is /.ed. Now, the scarriest thing is actually meeting all the people with cool sigs... if anyone lived in the Atlanta area.
I wonder if we can ./ a public place IRL just as a Geocities site?...
Tibbon
tibbon.com
Ok, who planed this for july 4th in San Diego? Yeah, sure it's a holiday and all... but you forgot one thing! Traffic!
This is gonna be more like nerds meet... in traffic!
Question everything that you've accepted without thinking.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not an insane security freak, but this kinda bothered me. After you sign up look at your address bar (all relevant information changed):
m ypasswordisbeingprintedinplaintext&terms=on&action =join&zip=00000&localeId=&setLocale=1
http://slashdot.meetup.com/?email=x@y.z&password=
*sigh*...
Please invite the person who wrote up this oft-posted drivel... so we can beat him/her up.
Also, be sure to setup some tables for the trolls, and then offer a free round of drinks... laced with something...
Oh, wait, he is already free..
Let Kevin Use a Pager... - Damn, doesn't fit on a bumper sticker...
Ok, who needs freed now? Free MP3s!
Already have FTP, damn...
Tibbon
tibbon.com
I'm in Cambridge and it would be just dandy to be considered part of the Boston area, but instead we are in our own "North Boston suburbs" group. While I do feel large and in charge in the suburbs, it seems a bit silly to split us up like that.
That said, I doubt I would ever go to one of these things anyways unless there are gonna be some strippers. you give me strippers and I'll go nearly anywhere... wasn't that a famous Bush or Clinton quote? If not, it sure should be.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Remember back in the day when /. editors didn't take themselves too seriously and we had postings ad nauseam of Taco at this convention then that convention and obligatory shots of one editor or another with a real live girl in the frame, (usually the editor in question wore a crooked grin and had one hand in a blurred pocket). I hope we're not going to have to view endless group shot of drunken/stoned /. ers.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
We all know there is a sizable readership up there.
No longer must we verbally assault strangers via the Internet, now we may physically assualt them in person. Thanks Slashdot.
This meeting thing is totally awesome. It's cool to meet /.ers in the area, but most of them go to my college. RIT and all. But the idea of a real life get together for people who all belong to one internet group is not new, but this site makes it really easy and cool. /.ers meet up in the real world they should throw huge parties. If they just meet and brag about their karma and their desktop environments it would totally suck.
My friends write a webcomic http://www.dubthis.net about anime, and we use the forums to get people together so we can meet at conventions. There are going to be tons of us at http://www.otakon.com in the end of July. At ACen they threw a huge party, and we plan to do the same again.
If
The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
Representative of what? What do Slashdot posters agree on? Nothing that I can think of.
Imagine a 'million geek march' with many banners, many with opposing viewpoints.
Wasn't this event originally known as the Gay Parade?
Who will be attending this meetup?
So far, the following people have signed up:
AssFace
Ummm...
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
I hope that some of the more enthusiastic /.'ers do not get all liquored up and start storming Best Buy with a copy of Debian and start loading versions of a counter culture OS. lol
~~Some people never go crazy what truly horrible lives they must lead.~~ Charles Bukowski
./'ed? What is he, a configure script?
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
Time to stop at the shops for some stuff for the meet. Some troll treats, a shallow dish, plank of wood with a nail through it and finally some of that camouflage cloth.
*shrug*
Is this going to be like one of those things where a bunch of guys meet up at a rest stop and have gay sex? I love those.
Won't this necessarily involve going outside at some point?
And the brethren went away edified.
So it's pretty much a win-win situation.
Reloading would be just walking out the door and back in again. There would be even less chance of a new story there
"Oh no, 3 horny women and only 2 condoms...Thank god I read slashdot"
You find that the kewl people on /. are just spotty 16-year old boys.
Author, Shell Scripting : Expert Re
The perfect garb for starting a riot.
T-Shirt
Let's just meet at the Apple Store! There's really very little difference between the "foamers" I see there thinking different, and the people on /.
--
Ask the Ya-Hoot Oracle Anything!
"let's see what happens."
I'll save you the trouble. Imagine thousands of overweight geeks who make the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons look like Brad Pitt.
Now imagine them all leaping on you at once.
"Einstein argued that [...] God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer." ~ Brooks
Quite honestly, I'm afraid to go. People may link my real name to my /. name and recognize that 4/5 times I tend to defend MS technology and even commend MS for their innovations. Maybe since I'm in the Seattle area there will be a few more "on my side" since it's so close to redmond. Nevertheless, I should at least come prepared with a weapon to defend myself. Maybe then I wouldn't be afraid to wear the MSDN T-Shirt and ASP.NET hat that I usually wear to similar meetings ;P
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
Wowsa. Imagine Slashdotting a McD's. Swarm the drive-through and counters during staff change-over, or during whatever time they expect to be slacktime.
:-)
Better yet, Slashdot a local restaurant that's more deserving of your business. It'll stress hell outta the chef and waitstaff, but if everyone's generous and leaves a big tip, they'll probably forgive you in the end.
--
Don't like it? Respond with words, not karma.
That will make me unique, and help to distinguish me from the other slashdotters in attendence.
Also, I'll be sure to pepper my conversation with quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Hopefully, someone else will be named Brian - hillarity will surely ensue!
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
Well, now... that would depend on what you dream about, wouldn't it? If you fancy a single woman who always wished she could run strace on life's problems and has a geek code, then I'd wager you'd probably find someone to your liking. If your tastes run more towards the bottle blond, lipstick lizard, clothes horse types, then I'd think a mall would be a better bet.
But while I've got you, how about a little piece of free, metaphorical advice from a old fogey: finding women is like fishing. That'sa ll you have to remember. Sounds silly, but it's very true if you examine it for a minute. You don't go fishing with a pole if you want shrimp, and a net won't get you many marlin. And while there are a lot of fish in the sea, they're pretty much concentrated in certain areas. Identifying and then placing yourself in those areas is a primary goal. You'll do better on the coast near the mouth of a river than 800 miles out over deep water maybe. And you need bait to match the fish in your area. You most certainly aren't going to catch cod with balls-o-fire.
Even still, just being where the most fish are is only half the battle. You have to remember that the volume of water to fish is enourmous. So you have to improve your your odds of hauling in the fish you want by catching lots of fish and only keeping the one(s) you want. Catch-and-release is alive in love as in fishing, trust me. This means you have better chances of hooking that lunker if you are the only boat on the water or if you can fool the fish by thinking you're only boat on the water, say by putting more/flashier/smellier bait in the water. Chum sometimes works, but it also attracts fish you don't want; too much smelt and barracuda and not enough calico bass makes for bad fishing. You also have to be careful because other boats can run off the fish, or into you even. The minute you tangle your lines with those from another guy's boat is the minute you look real long and hard at the fish on the hook. You probably don't want it.
Anyway, I could go on and on but you get the idea:
- Figure out what kind of fish you want
- Get the right kind of bait
- Get out there where the fish are
- Get there early so your alone
- Hook as many as you can while only keeping the good ones
That's what I did. Good luck to you.-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
boy-man.meetup.com
--- What?
Okay, but I'm only meeting in buildings where
the architectural drawings are freely available
by a license that RMS approves of.
jeff
He'll be sure to let me go!
I AM, therefore I THINK!
Canada kicks ass!
No alcohol or mommy wont let us go. We need to be home before our 10:00 PM curfew. Can not be on a school night. Our parents must meet the chaperon(s).
s/MEE/BEA/g
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
goatse.meetup.com
*shudder*
big words, littleman.
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
Put your foot in this a$$ :
Click me
Doorstop?
Snickers Cruncher?
I have a shitty sig!
Just in case you didn't look any further than the links, there are plenty of other topics too. Computer and non. Not to mention you can add your own topics/dates/etc.
I'll bring the grits.
Looks like slashdot hasn't done its homework properly while choosing cities outside the US.
The world knows that Bangalore is the biggest software dev. center in India...and hence the largest number of nerds (assumed), but the name features nowhere.
Where are Pune, Chennai, Hydrabad ?
Meet other slashdotters
Have a passerby moderate your conversation (What a bunch of geeks!)
Metamoderate them right back (To meet a person of that calibre, one must buy a Krusty Burger!)
Sure, sounds like fun. I did get-togethers with fellow mudders a few years back and those were pretty cool. Geeks can be pretty good company.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
When I was in college, there was this 24x7 McDonalds operating across the street a couple blocks up from the four big dorm towers. It was the end of the week before finals and many of us were realizing we were really supposed to be studying all semester, so we were playing catchup on that. Anyway, we needed a break, and at 3 AM, the bars weren't an option.
Someone came down to our floor and announced that 12th floor was going to McD's in 10 minutes, and to spread the word. I ran down to 6th and told them. We were all to meet at the back door closest to McD's. 10 minutes later there were people just pouring out the door. A rough head count put the number at 400. I didn't know that many college students studied.
400 students flooding into McDonalds at 3 AM was definitely a very interesting sight, especially that everyone lined up to order food. Fortunately because it was the end of the semester they had put on a couple extra cashiers. But it did take about half an hour to get all the orders put through. And no, they did NOT run out of fries, but all the fruit tart things were gone. It was definitely SRO. Two police cars came by, but they just stayed outside and watched.
About 300 remained at about the time most people were ready to head back. Right after we crossed the empty street and mostly lined up on the sidewalk heading back to the dorms, one car came by on our side of the street. Everyone thumbed for a ride. It didn't stop.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Just post a message with the title:
"Need ticket from CityX to CityY."
The Slashdot Auto-Ticketer will find the best flight and mail a free round-trip ticket to the address you used when you registered for your Slashdot account. Perl rocks.
Sausage fest!!!!!!
-- OMFG = Oh My Floatse Goatse
That makes me think of my BBS days, we (Montreal bbs users) used to meet every fridays at a bar downtown. For those of you who never did this sort of thing, it's a lot of fun. You get to meet the real person behind the net persona, some people that are real jerks online can be quite nice in person.
And there are girls that show up at those things, the ratio was not exactly 1/1 but it was not too bad, couples were formed.
For those who wonders about what people do at those things, well they do what people do in social gathering, talk, eat, drink, dance, flirt, joke etc...
Go ahead, meet meat friends.
English is not my first language, but feel free to criticize my spelling and grammar if that's your thing.
Considering most posts anti-thesis is probably more appropriate.
You know, a bunch of geeks getting high together?
I can't stand most of these people online! Why, in gawds name would I want to meet them in person?
-- Will program for bandwidth
Visit SlashMates.com and learn how to connect with old pal geeks and geekettes! Enjoy geek life the way it was meant to be! Rediscover your past!
Jeez have you every heard of line breaks?
The MS-HTML also shows you as a MS weenie who is only barely able to cut and paste articles from news websites.
Pretty lean info...Looks like a plant
Here is a prime example of the crowd you might meet there:
./, Linux (newbie), learning Perl
Graham
Age:14 Interests: Gaming,
Just browse some of the cities and you will see. I worry for some of these younger kids... get them in a room with JonKatz-types and who knows what'll transpire...
Aw, fuck it. Let's go bowling. - The Big Lebowski
no fucking way would any sane person attend this crap.
lets get a couple hundred people to try and get into a small bar running a 1 bartender server system, and see if he can handle the load.
with this many people, it should be pretty easy to over run the bar buffer and get into the back end areas like the kitchen and accounting areas.
ahhh, the REAL slashdot effect in person.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Since signing up, I've been hitting refresh on the front page every now and then, watching the signed up worldwide number rise from 500-something to over 1000. If my refresh-math is working correctly, the site is currently (sustainably?) adding between 1 and 2 people worldwide every second...
:)
Cant wait to see some of ya
Aye
The verbal assaults from the likes of Jerzy Junks, Mister Blister, and other trolls are a recent thing. If you look back two or three years, you won't find them. I doubt the six or seven M$ employees who actually post that kind of crap will show up anywhere. Those that do show up will be the mellow and stuborn folks that refuse to leave despite all the noise.
Thank you, ffatTony, for providing an excellent demonstration of a sensless, negative and non constructive comment.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I'd be too damn embarrassed to go.
"Hi, ya'll. I'm a geek, my name is Amit, my friends call me Pikachu."
One time, when I went to my school's programming club, I gave that same introduction, and some guy said, "I guess I'll call you Amit then."
Yeah, public gatherings of people with likeminded interests aren't really my thing... Just remember to do an Ask Slashdot with "So what happened at your International Slashdot Meetup meeting?" a day or so after it happens.
[o]_O
Dinner
of course if we really wanted to mimic the slashdot effect the venue would have to be some unsuspecting mom+pop ISP in Smalltown, Ohio where we'd all show up announced, glance around briefly and then go somewhere else to badmouth MS
NOOOOOOOOOOO! DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT!
/. and meetup.com for totally screwing over my entire life!
Thank you,
I just ran into Jon Katz at one of them there meetup.com social mixers and found him to be funny, thoughtful & intelligent.
NOW WHAT AM I GOING TO BITCH ABOUT?!??!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
I went to the mozilla party in my area (atlanta) and had a great time. I met a bunch of true geeks. One of them even had a pair of stratus machines in his living-room.
Yeah, I'll be heading to this party. Having a total geek conversation with new people who haven't heard all of you rants is always fun. Mix some beer and things could get really wild. We might even talk about non technology related topics!
After I signed up for this I realized...
...you can't spell "MEETUP" without M-E-E-P-T.
IHBT. IHL.
I hope I have a nice day. Though I doubt it.
k.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Sadly, there's no barelylegalteens.meetup.com... yet...
--
"Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos." - Homer Simpson [1F10]
the page seems not to be working. How can I find out about the meet-up in NYC and the Hudson Valley ?
as i write australia holds 3 places in th top 10 locales of sign-ups
pos 2 - brisbane :: 23 signups :: 22 signups :: 18 signups
pos 5 - melbourne
pos 9 - sydney
these are th three top australian cities by population,but in th reverse order -
sydney ~= 4M melbourne ~= 3.5M brisbane ~= 1.5M
but mainly i'm surprised there seems to be so many slashdot readers in australia
I was going to make a slick joke about the mysterious lack of interest for a meetup in Redmond, Washington...
BUT...
I was wrong.
It all goes downhill from first post
slashdotter displays alarmed look and says to the bartender..."I thought those were open source beer & wings!?"
I've already signed up as six different geek chicks in my area... Bet we have a great turnout!! :) I'll be recording from a van parked across the street. Should be fun to watch.
Who chooses the candidate venues?
/.ers are... Cool.
The MEETUP Venue Team hand-picked 11,409 venues worldwide. (We're also taking suggestions from users!) Then, our magic computer chooses these three venues based on availability and appropriateness for the topic. It's not perfect. That's where YOU come in: Help pick the best venue(s) for your city. The actual MEETUP venue(s) are open to a vote. We never force a MEETUP to be at any particular place in any town.
Apparently the "magic computers" at meetup.com aren't perfect, but us
warning : this is a corporate entity sponsoring th organisation of this meetup
knowing this, it might be useful to browse their privacy agreement before giving them an email address that you like to keep spam free
particularly this section of text :
This is funny! And it's not really off topic.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
We should hold an ole fashioned stonecutters conventions. We all just wear our Slashdot User Numbers and the lower numbers get to order all the newbies around. While quaffing beer and signing bawdy songs. ;-)
Oh eat my buttocks. That wasn't a troll.
--Giving to trolls for the benefit of us all
WATER, WATER, WATER.
I'd like to meet Klerck
Microsoft - Where would you like to go today, Maybe Jail?
Now you got me all conflicted. :(
I'm from Canada, but live in LA. Who do I cheer for? It's like a Kings vs Leafs game.
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
OpenBSD rocks out with a cock out.
-kaitos
It really is not his fault: He just has multiple-personality disorder...
Besides, I like the idea of slashdot meeting... I wonder if there are any slashdotters in the country where I live (population is under half a million), I don't think there are many. :-)
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
I guess if 1st February (of a non-leap year) falls in a Thursday...no meeting that month
And for all of you who wish to see how the famous Slashdot effect works over the net, there is this statistics showing over 100 000 hits the day the story about FreeCraft was posted.
e-mail: karol at tls-technologies.com
www: http://www.tls-technologies.com
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Yes, what the topic says.
I will kick your ASS!
Why must I choose a city when I can only chose stockholm. What are you? The henry ford of internet. There are actually more cities in sweden then just stockhom.
This is a joke right? It's a she-male.. and ugly to booth isn't it? Please say it is so.. otherwise i will have nightmares for the rest of my life...... please..?
(I'd wish!)
What's better is that you'll easilly recognize who the trolls are.
The guy that runs straigh to the meeting point, and yells "first person" periodtically.
The guy that hands out pictures printed out from goatse.cx.
The guy that goes over the most informed group of people and begins saying how wonderful Microsoft is...
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Not that I've attended any (too busy with job, wife, and kids), but I believe the local linux user group holds thier mettings on the third thursday of every month. I would personally rather meet slashdotters who attend those mettings rather than the ones with differing interests. No bias towards others intended.
It's just the normal noises in here.
I'd rather see a list of /. readers, the city they live in and a link to mail them, maybe over a site-internal system to avoid spamming.
Meetings could be organized privately. I'd like to know whether there are any Slashdotters here in this area... that's the only "problem" I have, not a meeting place.
When you organize a meeting, you must take care of the male/female ratio! I want to be able to hit on chicks and stuff like that.
Slashdot community, please notice: I am looking for a girlfriend.
Nave H. Weiss
I think this is a pretty good idea, especially for those of us outside the us...
All these guys complaining about no geek chicks is really irritating me. I mean, I'm a geek chick and if more come, then my odds go down. I like the male / female ratio right now. There is me...... and...... hmmm, just me for the female part and everyone else is a guy. Perfect!
-Geek Chick in Cleveland
I'm going to go and get drunk and beat people up!
Don't mod me, bro'!!!!
Now I'll just call up Conan and make sure Triump the Insult Comic dog shows up, spectacular...
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
OpenBSD is pro-actively secure. It comes with everything disabled, and a record of no remote root holes in like, 3 years or something. FreeBSD is another operating system based on the Berkely Standard Distribution of Unix. I don't know too much about FreeBSD, but OpenBSD makes for a good firewall/gateway.
Someone correct me if I'm an ignorant fool.
I wonder what the starbucks at Seattle will be like on the day this happens? A group of slashdotters equipped with their wifi enabled devices hitting a wifi enabled starbucks? I sure hope there is enough unix chicks around because I can't imagine a bunch of slashdotter banging their heads against a network that is only 11mbps and it's shared!
:-)
Go hokies
check the results for top cities.
Well, I must say that the form only lists a dozen or so conutries. What about the rest of the world? :)
:P
Or an option for 'other' B]
- Guess people in greece, switzerland, portugal, croatia, burundi, afghanistan and madagascar are not connected to the internet yet
I miss my rubber keyboard.(Homepage)
You can't subscribe as AC.
meetup.com has nothing to with slashdot as such, and there's something funny I don't like (I'm so paranoid regarding spam that I post here exclusively as AC).
Their privacy policy says:
"Except as otherwise provided in our privacy policy statement and Section 6.5 of this Agreement, we will not sell, rent or otherwise disclose any personally identifiable information about you (including your e-mail address) to any third party."
Now why isn't that section 6.5 included on their web page?
And why does their privacy policy say that they'll use your e-mail address to [quote] "improve our marketing and promotional efforts", and also "You also agree that we may use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests"?
There's more below that, but I stopped reading there as I knew enough.
I propose a new poll:
I am old enough to vote:
* Yes
* No
* Don't blame me. I voted for Bill and Opus.
* I never voted for Cowboy Neal
My Heart Is A Flower
Anyone familiar with message boards knows that when a post of particular interest to many members of the board is up, it is often granted 'sticky' status, in that it is allowed to stay at the top of the post list for a certain amount of time.
I don't know if slashdot has ever done such a thing before, but if anything deserves sticky status, this does. I can't think of a single contributing member of slashdot who wouldn't want to at least HEAR about these meetings.
When I wake up, yeah I know I'm gonna read,
:-)
I'm gonna read "yo! wake up! geek girls don't exist."
When I go out, yeah I know I'm gonna meet,
I'm gonna meet a geek who goes "you don't exist".
If you get drunk, yes I know I'm gonna see
I'm gonna see the drunk who says I don't exist.
Do me a favor, say you know you're gonna be
You're gonna be the one who's saying I exist.
'Cause I would post five hundred lines
And I would post them all again
Just to be the girl who posts a thousand lines
To get this through your brain.
When I'm hacking, yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the chick who's hacking next to you.
(And when the credit rolls in for the things I do
Don't be thinking that I'll pass it on to you.
When I come home, yeah I know you wish I'd be
Wish I'd be the one that comes back home to you.
And if I grow old well you'll see I'm still a geek
By then I'll have the big ol' glasses for it too.
But I would post five hundred lines
And I would post them all again
Just to be the girl who posts a thousand lines
To get this through your brain.
(da da da da...)
"The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life"
Cause I'm coming to kick your ass, Microserf.
I will kick your ass.
Finally I get my chance!
...but not necessarily convenient. I live in NJ, the most densely populated state in the country, and I'd have to get into midtown Manhattan to go the nearest one. It's only 13 miles as the crow flies, but about an hour by car (not to mention $10-20 to park somewhere for a few hours).
Meanwhile, I already have two Meetup clusters within 20 minutes of my house.
The meetup.slashdot.org site requires a login like the NYTimes. I created a user account you can use:
user: user@slashdot.org
pw: sucks
"Hey you boyzzz, I'm looking for a geek who is not afraid to route me, configure my switches, respond to every HTTP request, take me to the next layer of abstraction. I'm into S&H, so must be able to hack into my deepest kernel code."
Sorry it's just not happening...
The A.O.T.C. & GeekPAC [thelinuxshow.com]
Unfortunate title. I followed the link expecting some connection between GeekPAC and Attack of the Clones.
And look for me in my Army of One shirt at the meet : )
I am a long time reader first time poster. I like the idea of a bunch of /.er getting together and just having a good time. I for one would like it just because it would give me a change to interact with the people that I have come to admire, respect, hate, and downright loath on here over the past 3 years. Put faces to chat names and email addresses and meet people that you never knew read /. Hell you might see your boss there and see that he is a poster that you thought had great comments. Then he would see that you were the poster that commented on his great ideas. Then you get promoted and make more mone ..... That will never happen. We should just be happy to see that there are more of us then we thought. Besides what better excuss is there to get 100 people together and go to a bar, get drunk, try to score and talk about all things /.
If managers knew IT they would not be managers. They would be on the helpdesk.
Hi all -
I notice that Thu July 25th is during the O'Reilly OSCON in San Diego. I would suggest that we simply designate the main bar at the San Diego Sheraton for a "meetup" since so many slashdotter's will be right there.
Brush with greatness - last year I met Rob Malda there, and did not know who he was. He was wearing a slashdot T-shirt, and I said something like "Hey, you read slashdot?" and everyone else broke out laughing.
TWR
Yes they do! Take a look at http://www.linuxchix.org/ for one spot where they gather.
But I wouldn't guarantee any show up. If I were a single geek girl (I'm married) I know I'd find it intimidating. Think of the ratio of guys/girls and how many people are going to be hitting on you if you are the least bit attractive. The last thing most girls want is a horde of geeks drooling all over them, even if they are like minded.
Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.
All all the other vally cities: We ought to combine ourselves, since hell...I live in mesa, work in chandler, and spend most of my time drinking and (until last week) smoking in Tempe at Pink-E's. Lets face it, we're the sixth largest metroplex in the US...we could honestly slashdot the hell out of the Crowbar or Le Girls or something...
This is just a Snapshot of the Privacy Agreement at the Meetup service this /. event is being managed on... just in case.
Oh, and don't miss their TOS either.
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"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
Watch yourself man... she's royalty!
- Have a picture
Maybe my current one isn't terribly appropriate for a social gathering.
Who would've thought that would happen
I though all /.ers were security and privacy freaks.....
What's in a Sig?
Whenever I sign up for a site, I use a unique e-mail address. I have a special domain, the only purpose of which is to accept mail from every website I ever sign up for. Since every address is unique, and I know who I've given it too, if it gets sold to spammers, I know who did it, and I can easily shut it down. I very rarely get spam.
You know far too much about fishing to actually have any!
;)
And unless you found that "significant other who likes to fish" I'd say its about time you followed your own advice!
I think your advice is mostly sound, however there are some areas that I think would warrant further explanation. Alas, I am at a loss for fishing metaphors! maybe these will help:
To hook the best fish, don't walk around like the ancient mariner with an albatross around your neck.
Be careful removing scales and watch out for choking on small bones.
Both Fish and house guests stink after three days.
Everything I know I learned from alt.seduction.fast
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
We Swiss geeks would like to meet up, too, but it seems that the world really does consist of only about ten countries. Oh well, it's back to the old hoarding-gold-making-cheese-and-yodeling routine, then.
(1) Only the people from Zurich say "Grüezi", and no one likes them.
LOO LOO LOO!
u from k/w area? email me
i_gorman@hotmail.com
Ok, GEEK CHICKS DO EXIST. I am one of the few and the proud. If you don't believe me, check my website, Sondy.com (which is in desperate need of an update). I use both PCs and Macs (I'm dual platform so I can get along with most guys out there...), game somewhat, organize and attend LAN parties, have my own domain, anime posters on my walls along with the iMac one, more electronic devices in my car than anyone else I know, and my watch on 24 hour time. I also have a social life, have many geek and normal friends, am attractive (according to the five guys I have dated... and I'm not even 17!), and participate in high school sailing. So, I do have a life.
Yes, geek chicks exist, but we are WAY OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE. (Ok, that's a lie, I'm going out with a hardcore Mac gamer now.)
Blessed are the geeks for they shall Internet the Earth.
SHUT UP, LITTLE MAN!!!. html
http://members.aol.com/leesausage/shut_up