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Slashdot Meetup Reminder
Just a little reminder that Slashdot meetup is today! Sorry to the folks on the other side of the dateline for not posting this earlier. Check it out at slashdot.meetup.com we've had some 5000 people register all over the world so we thought a reminder ping was in order. The original story is available too. We won't be there this month as we're at OSCON today. But we'll be there next month perhaps. If you do go to a meetup put in a submission about it and we'll do a wrapup tonight or tomorrow sometime.
I've got a hot date with Warcraft III.
> ...Because there were only 3 people who signed up.
Maybe someone should have posted a link on slashdot.
Oh - wait, Nevermind.
Sorry to the folks on the other side of the dateline for not posting this earlier.
;-)
First, you give away the ending to the Lone Gunmen to early, cause you didn't think about PST, now you post this late because you didn't think of the other side of the dateline.
Someone give this man a watch that can hold multiple time zones!!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
...or your venue might turn out to be a parking lot.
The Livejournal Meetup was on Tuesday. Here in Springfield, Missouri, the closest of the three venue choices to me turned out to be something called "Farmer Brothers Coffee." I checked the map, and it seemed kind of odd that a coffeehouse would be far out on the east side of town toward the expressway, where mainly office buildings could be found...but I figured the Meetup people knew what they were doing, and voted for it.
Enough other people also voted for it that it became the selected venue...and when I got there, a half hour early (since I was the host), I discovered that it was not, in fact, a coffeehouse...it was a suite in an office building, for a restaurant coffee supply firm. Closed, of course.
So I waited out in the parking lot for the other confused souls to show up, we all had a good laugh about meetup sites that apparently pick their venues by grepping online yellow pages, and then we went somewhere else. We had a good time, all things considered.
Still, I wonder how many other meetups have taken or will take place in parking lots?
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I question the wisdom in gathering Linux users in public. It will give the impression that we are incapable of forming relationships with those outside of our close-knit and slightly bizarre community.
Many people will see a bunch of pasty, slightly chubby white guys with longish hair drinking beer and laughing about Babylon 5 or what have you, ask what's going on, and then think something along the lines of, "so that's what Lunix is all about...I'll stick with Windows, thanks," before they go back to hitting on cute girls.
Our image is tarnished enough. Let's keep it underground where it belongs.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Toronto is top of the list.. even with the Pope in town! BUNG! .. wait.. geek.. catholic.. interest in science .. catholic.. i dont think these go together..
i bet my coworker that there would be 2 girls there.. if i win i get a free lunch.
I'm rather worried that during a meetup, a goatse.cx troll will quietly sneak off to the bathroom, strip down, prepare, and comeback as the goatse.cx dude. In person!
My hosts file wont save me then!
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
If two females were going to be at any *other* location, there might have been more excitement about it.
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