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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.
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
Now I can have hoards of slashdot readers slashdot my front door.
In college, really poor, need a flatscreen.
What do we say when we meet?
"FIRST POST!"
Hmm. Time to see if my boss reads slashdot.
If so, time to start posting anonymously.
--saint
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
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.
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
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!!!
You're fired.
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
Represent, Central PA! I don't wanna be the only Dubois area nerd!
Blog Prophyts - Right On, Man
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
-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'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
Would there not already be a lot of /.ers at these meetings 2600
/. 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.
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 wonder if we can ./ a public place IRL just as a Geocities site?...
Tibbon
tibbon.com
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
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.
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.
./'ed? What is he, a configure script?
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
Won't this necessarily involve going outside at some point?
And the brethren went away edified.
You find that the kewl people on /. are just spotty 16-year old boys.
Author, Shell Scripting : Expert Re
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.
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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.
Okay, but I'm only meeting in buildings where
the architectural drawings are freely available
by a license that RMS approves of.
jeff
You're in! The /. crowd that is, especially since the correct spelling is 'antithesis'.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
He'll be sure to let me go!
I AM, therefore I THINK!
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?"
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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...
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"Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos." - Homer Simpson [1F10]
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
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 :
-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. ;-)
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.
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?
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"
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.
Watch yourself man... she's royalty!
- Have a picture
I though all /.ers were security and privacy freaks.....
What's in a Sig?
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.