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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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You go to the Slashdot meetup website, register with your email address and zip code, and the site tells you where the meetup is in your area.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
Look on the bright side...it could have been at a McDonald's or a Hardee's. From what I've been able to make out from scoping out the venue choices in my home town, going to a Meetup held in a parking lot, and thinking about it, they must have populated their venue list by grepping on keywords in the online yellow pages.
The best way to turn the trend around? Submit some really cool local places using their new venue submission form.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
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!
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