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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.
I don't live far from Lavalounge. If things work out then next time maybe we could repeat my 802.11 from the apartment to the bar! See ya there!
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
how can you tell where the meetup is anyway?
four-oh-four
> ...Because there were only 3 people who signed up.
Maybe someone should have posted a link on slashdot.
Oh - wait, Nevermind.
The Grape Escape, 500 Commerce St., Fort Worth, TX
on Thursday, July 25 @ 7:00PM
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?
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
i registered... but the san jose meet up is at the chili's right by my house.
;)
CHILI'S??? we couldn't go to a decent bar or something? or even just a data warehouse and eat hot pockets sitting on the floor.
i don't understand how CHILI'S is going to spur any kind of socialization whatsoever. plus, i'm a baller extraordinaire and hanging out with you losers would hurt my rep!
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
Seattle was, at one time, the 2nd geekiest city - now it's only 5th :-(. Not too bad considering we're so close to the "evil empire".
:-). Don't worry, I've got my EFF t-shirt to make up for it. Yes, that's right, I'm a Windows developer who gives hundreds to the EFF each year. Reconcile THAT!
BTW: If you are going to the Seattle Sit 'n' Spin meetup then you'll identify me by my ASP.NET hat
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
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)
500 nerds, all getting together? HOW IS THIS NEWS FOR NERDS?
the only meeting that REALLY matters ;)
Chili's Grill & Bar, 5650 Almaden Expwy.,
San Jose, CA
on Thursday, July 25 @ 7:00PM
beware of and plan around traffic!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
I saw this for livejournal.meetup.com. I didn't feel like registering due to spam concerns. ATalk about an uninformative website.
That site sucks ass.
what?
who?
when?
but NO WHERE!
I am totally blind I guess but I cannot find the WHERE portion. please enlighten me!
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.
I'm so confused, 2 Boston meetings, which one will I pick. Do I follow the larger crowd and go to the North Boston Suburb, or should I stick to the actual Boston meeting. Kinda wierd that there isn't just a Greater Boston meeting with all 90 or so people instead of 2 meetings 5 miles apart. This is why geeks and social functions don't mix ;)
To those geeks in Columbus who don't want to give your email out (can't you register a hotmail addy for this? Sheesh!):
Virgin Megastore
3965 Townfair Way
Columbus, OH
Thursday, July 25 @ 7:00PM EST
That's the Virgin Megastore in Easton Town center. Easton is huge and leet, so if you don't want to hang out in Virgin (ha!) Megastore there's Adobe Gillas, Fados, etc -- lots of pubs and such all around there.
Thanks,
--
Matt
It's no wonder that Open Source hackers and Linux users are so poorly perceived by the general public. Here is yet another picture of the father/grand daddy of Open Source. That's right RMS himself.
For God's sake, couldn't some one have told him to button his shirt and get a haircut before giving a keynote speech.
Decisions decisions decisions. . . .
/. meet and hopefuly try to outrun any mob of people who want me dead. . . .
;`(
Go to park with friend, get eaten by mosqitos, but have fun, go to
DOH!
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I signed up to be our host here in tech valley but i don't think i'm going to be able to make it! It seems a certain wife has planned certain activities I may not be able to get out of without enraging certain unliked and vindictive legal relatives.
Drink a latte for your megabyte, please!
Hey freaks: now you're ju
I fked up and didn't come. I'm into next time. email me @ shayne[mandatoryspamblock]@guild.murdoch.edu[mores pamproof].au for plans whatever.
Sorry guys. I did mess up.
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
Neither of us are single, but I thought we should post a PSA anyway: yes, there will be two geeky females at the San Francisco meetup. Our SO's won't be with us, either! Oh yeah, and my friend actually likes using vi. Does she pass the geek test?
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wouldnt this make a better poll option?
Will you be going to your local meetup tonight?
Yes
No
Only if CBN picks my ass up in his rusty el camino!
in an undisclosed location -- just in case anything happens to the other Slashdot fan.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
I thought about going to the meetup, but I'm scared of the Slashdot effect...
All those people, all those hundreds, possibly thousands of hits.
So no, I won't be going to the Slashdot Beatup.
- Serge Wroclawski
Well I was at the London meetup at 7.30pm today and asked 2 of the people who worked there about the /. meetup and got silly reply's from both.
Did anyone got Navajo Joes or was the whole thing a prank?
It needs to be better organised, perhaps even reserved, so people clearly know where to go, and don't waste their time!
Even if it is crowded I doubt that the /.ers will have any trouble recognizing each other.
Lasers Controlled Games!
I showed up at a Second Cup (coffee shop) downtown about 15 minutes after the specified time. I had my laptop with me so the /. people would recognize me.
They did. They grabed me, pulled me into a booth in the corner and the meetup began for me. One of them grabbed my laptop, booted it up and started installing Gentoo Linux on it after finding out that it runs Win98. Another one started a long monologue that praised Linux and bashed Microsoft. A third one was wearing a tinfoil baseball cap and handing out his PGP key to anyone who entered the coffee shop.
After brainwashing me for a while, my fellow slashdotters and I went for a beer (for which I paid, for some unexplicable reason). The rest of the evening is a blur, as one beer turned into more than I can count. Kind of like the Linux Beer Hike, but without the hiking.
I can't wait till the next one.
I am not going to the Seattle /. meet, the mosquito bites I got yesterday are driving me up the wall, I get off work, err, right now, so too-friggin-ta, I got ice cream and barbecue to eat!
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To whoever set up the juneau alaska meeting, it would have been really nice if you held this thing somewhere besides a bar so that those of us who are under 21 and don't own a good fake could get in. *sigh*
Maskirovka
Well, I headed up to the Springfield, Missouri Slashdot meetup location, The Bar Next Door/South Avenue Pizza Co. Put a sign up on the table and everything. Waited 'til 7:30...and nobody had shown up, so I called it quits and came home. 14 people registered, 4 RSVP'd...and I'm the only one who showed up. Oh well, maybe next month.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
Pandora did a great job hosting. Approx 24 attendees. All normal. Only one suit in site, mine. Kyocera6035 does Slashdot.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
They could always come up north to New Hampshire. We had a great time--even though only 5 out of 22 showed up. It will be a while before they forget us. They didn't understand how we could be meeting people that we've never met before. The kept asking us how many was going to show up, and we said we don't know.
The meetup people did a decent job. They even booked a table--I assume it was them because we didn't have anyone sign up to be the host. I hope there is one next month. That was fun!!!
What was the yellow thing in the sky though?
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
Fire me an e-mail back or post on here.. and we'll meet up anyways.
-Pat
stand out the front and shoot everyone who gets dropped of by their mums?
I want to see what nuclear and rocket scientists look like. Since the ones around here often seem to be quite immature.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
Howdy! If you went to the FW /. meetup and didn't find one of your hosts, namely Texchanchan, that is because I was sitting at a restaurant in Handley waiting for a tow truck. Alternator chose this afternoon to go out at 820 and Lancaster. Sincere regrets.
Meetup was cool (we have +102 F outside) and cozy.
7 people showed up and it was warm talk about everything.
Thanks for meetup idea!
I signed up for the site with a spamtrap address (just in case) and didn't check it recently. Totally forgot about the Meetup until I saw the story posted here, by then it was too late. D'oh! Reading over the comments, it sounds like 7 was a good turnout, I'll have to mark next month's on the calendar.
Shaun
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Yet another "me too" post but it had to be said.
/.-ed. I did get fr15t p0st status by being the first to show at Jillian's, however.
Jillian's has some neat arcade games and all but it is WAY TOO FSCKN LOUD to carry on a conversation in.
We got something like 10 people who showed up out of the myriads that RSVPed. No, the place didn't get
However, the folk who DID show up were great, and we intend to meet again. I was able to get emails and we'll figure the rest out on our own. Possibly this is also going to spin off into an IRC channel too...stay tuned.
I'm too lazy to get the pix off of my digital camera tonight...you'll have to wait until tomorrow. I'll have a page of photos up at MsGeek.Org.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Only 2 of us showed up, and Starbucks closed at 7pm. We had a good old geeky chat though, rambling through fave hacks, censorship, quantum mechanics, and np maths problems.