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Lulu Tech Circus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-your-average-expo dept.

Stacy Doster writes "Lulu Tech Circus, the latest endeavor of Red Hat co-founder Bob Young, is coming to Raleigh, NC, Sept 27-29th. Then on to Boston, DC, Chicago, Toronto and Atlanta. Lulu Tech Circus is going to have everything geek - Don Becker, LAN tournaments, a swap meet, Robot building and more. Check out the cool experiences. Stop by or nominate yourself or someone you know in the Raleigh area for The Lulus. Three Lulus will be given to the three winning uber-geeks. The winning prize is a trip for two to Kennedy Space Center."

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  1. Kennedy Space Center sucks for geeks by pestie · · Score: 2, Informative

    I made the mistake once of driving 3 hours across Florida to go to Kennedy Space Center. What a disappointment! Anything the public gets access to is run by a lame amusement park company and the whole thing is set up more for 8-year-old boys obsessed with rockets than geeks. The only particularly cool aspect of the place was the actual Saturn V rocket hanging, disassembled, in an enormous hangar-like building. Other than that, though, it pretty much sucked.

  2. Re:Uhhh.... by Rand+Race · · Score: 3, Informative
    The Kennedy Space Center is in Cape Canveral/Kennedy Florida. The Marshall Space Flight Center is in Huntsville Alabama. And actually Huntsville isn't that bad of a geek-tourist destination, they've also got a supercomputer center there that's quite cool. Getting to see a Saturn IV and a Cray SV1 on the same day is nice. Plus there's always the chance of fresh cattle mutilations to the north in the - totally coincidental - area around Arnold AFB near Manchester, TN!

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  3. Major Human-Spam in Raleigh by helixblue · · Score: 3, Informative

    Although I'm planning on going, mostly because Andrew Hunt of Ruby fame is going to be there, I got kind of burnt out by all the human-spam in the Raleigh area.

    What do I mean by human spam? I mean, first I hear some LuLu rep talking about it at the local Triangle Mac Users Group meeting.. I laughed because 90% of the folks in that meeting don't know what "Darwin" is, let alone what most of the cool talks are about (except I did see they are offering Final Cut Pro seminars!).

    Then the worst. A few days later THEY SPAMMED OUR SLASHDOT MEETUP! Of all the things to not spam, they sent some droid (Photo #2) over to our nice meetup at Flying Saucer, to sell us all on the idea of going to this thing.

    After about 25 minutes, his salesmanship is over, and the business cards handed out, he dissappears.

    What the hell were they thinking? Welp.. I guess if it gets folks to go.

    Of course, our local slashdot trolling committe made fun of the silly name. But that's typical.