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Last Chance to Enter For Slashdot Anniversary Party Grand Prize
Today is your last chance to enter the Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary party contest. All you need to do is send pictures, videos, or whatever party evidence you can email to anniversary at slashdot dot org. The winner will be whoever sends the things that make their party look the coolest, the most nerdish etc. We've seen signs, games, etc so far... and of course, the winner gets $1k at ThinkGeek. Both the Ann Arbor and Silicon Valley parties were great. Much alcohol consumed. Old friends chatted with. New friends met. I hope many of you around the net got your t-shirts and had good times.
I hosted a party and never even got my T-shirt.
In other news, I may have already won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, but probably not.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Holding out for the big 25th anniversary bash!
I know the logistics might be a bit hard, but next time can different sized shirts be included -- pretty please? XL is a tad much, even in a shrinkable cotton shirt. Trying to make a size Small out of an XL is a tad hard, even for the fabrically-inclined.
Just a quick note to the New York City party attendees - opencity did finally receive the swag meant for us. I imagine plans for the inevitable manhunt are forthcoming.
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We ended up with about a dozen people. T-shirts were late but we're thankful for them. They were handed out to LUG members that have Slashdot IDs. About half the geeks watched Transformers on the big screen and the other half played pool while all consumed massive quantities of snacks and caffeine. Thanks SlashCrew!
Ahhh! The grammar! It hurts my eyes!
We had a huge bash in Los Angeles, and had custom T-Shirts and everything! Check it all out:
Slashdot 10 Year - Los Angeles
Is that US, Canadian or Zimbabwean?
Summation 2
You wouldn't believe what I went through.
I went to the Dutch slashdot party. When I came in, I asked the barman 'hi, I'm for slashdot, where are they'. He pointed to a table with four women. I was pretty stunned to find they were very beautiful.
With a little hesitation, I walked over and said in a questioning way 'slashdot?...'. 'Yeah, sure' they said, invited me to sit down and shoved a beer in my face. The evening went by like a train with lots of laughter, drinks and I made a couple of pics. After one brunette apologized and went home, the other three exchanged meaningful glances and all of a sudden asked me to join them for a little after party.
We went to a grande discotheque close by. More drinks and loud music follewed, with really wild dancing. Again I shot lots of pics with my cam. After a couple of hours, the place closed, but the girlswere really worked up and invited me to come home with them. I can't really repeat here what happened, but let me tell you, it was wild, WILD WILD like it was 1999. I used the 'video' feature of my photo camera to the max.
When I woke up and had a quick shower with the cute brunette with the curly hair, I went to work. I couldn't contain myself and spilled the story to my coworkers. We pulled the pics off the camera through the USB. I have a Linux workstation and had to reconnect the camera in order to get a connection. It was slow as molasses and reported an error halfway.I pointed Konqueror to the folder where the pics were uploaded and I'm like *WTF* all pics were completely garbled. What's worse, somehow the fucking KDE had ruined the pics on my camera as well. I screamed in frustration, while my coworkers were all joking about how I had drunk too much and had woken up in the arms of a bearded, smelly kernel hacker instead.
So just for the record I'm putting this story here. I really, REALLY met some real hot female kernel hackers and had a thoroughly wild night with them. I just can't back it up with pics for the Slashdot Anniversary Party Grand Prize.
We had a huge party in Los Angeles, and had over 50 people come, gave out custom shirts because we were one of the first! Check it out:
Slashdot 10 Year - Los Angeles
Can't wait till 20!
And here is the pictures from Kampala: http://hosting.mountbatten.net/news/blog/.-party-kampala.html /., that's our daily reality)
(try our whopping 64Kbps connection
Wow. All we got in San Antonio was a hard to find party in a back room with around 8-10 people. Where do we apply for swag?!?
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
Didn't you see what Taco said?
"I hope many of you around the net got your t-shirts."
Can't you see? Can't you see how much he hopes you got your t-shirts? Isn't the uniquely-human ideal of hope more worthwhile than any guarantee?
Only three of us were together and our host didn't show up. We had a good time chatting tech and history. No swag, though!!! http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=365 is the party link.
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What happened with the t-shirts that were supposed to be handed out at the Toronto, Ontario gathering?
Around 55 disappointed people showed up. Fortunately, though, moods quickly changed when we realized that the beer was cheap and, especially, the bar had WiFi!
(I have not seen the t-shirts on eBay yet, but I am guessing it is just a matter of time before the local organizer loses his patience and starts selling them.)
(psst... If the organizer is reading this... meet me behind Eaton Center (near Yonge and Dundas, opposite the court house and City Hall, where most of the corruption happens), and I will give you $50 CDN for some of that sweet t-shirt.)
If you're not an XL, then you may not be missing out, although it was cool to get a free shirt just for showing up.
/. stereotype was easily broken with the number of female members, or friends of members. The music was great (thanks to Brindle and co.) and everyone was friendly as nobody had to worry about being too much of a nerd. I look forward to 2017.
/.ers!
In P.A. I met Brindle, SuperQ, Pathwalker, Scuttlemonkey, Hemos, Taco, and a bunch of people that I only know by their real first name. The crowd was about as old as I was expecting, but the
Party on,
Five of us actually showed up. We've actually received our t-shirts now (and we're working to schedule another get-together for the near-future for everyone to actually collect said shirts). Sadly, our reality wasn't nearly as nerdy: no signs, no "special t-shirts," not even a laptop-based OS-Showdown. The nerdiest thing at the table was either my camera or shinyhat's iPhone.
His sticker said "Beef Cake" and he wore it on his back.
Hello We had a party in Lyon, France and we took a lot of pictures !!! Btw Duke Nukem Forever was released during our party. I am sure you can't stay without the link, now ...
So where are we supposed to send it to qualify for the Party Grand Prize ? /. t-shirt but we even enjoyed our party : http://cielissime.free.fr/slashdot-party/
Our Party
DVD cover
Duke Nukem
Some of us we didn't have any
I sent in a photo submission, but never heard back. Should I assume the best, or worst?
Here in Central VT we had about 15 to 20 people show. We had a cake and poster and some brief presentations, lots of discussion... we retired to the local brewpub after the initial party and sat around drinking and talking about nerdy stuff until about 10:30pm... with the party starting at 6:30, that's not bad. T-shrits arrived late, but I won't complain about free schwag! We are going to use it to convince people to do awesome presentations at the monthly VAGUE meetings... do a good presentation, get a free T-shirt! Works out great for the organizers, the presenters, and the public!
Thanks Slashdot, for everything, and happy burfday!
I attended the Ann Arbor Party. I got into a conversation with Hemos about Vasectomies. I got a good laugh the next morning when I read penny arcade.
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
-- Ernest Hemingway
Is it ok if we photoshop...errrr...GIMP some pictures to make it look like we had a slashdot party when we really didn't?
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Hey /., you surely want to give the winner the Best Prize Ever ? Not just a lousy "DeCSS" T-shirt or an USB frying pan ? Something that will make them happy, something they will brag about ? Well, I've got it:
give them a 1-digit ID.
That's all.
in any direection towards damage of the creator's innocents, will be the cause/bearer of the end game. thank you. pay attention robIE
Very nice, but our party was on the 9th!
..and our fourth is tomorrow!
The Philadelphia party was great, around 25 people came. I got rid of all the tshirts and even got one from timothy.
The winner of the evening's contest for lowest slashdot ID was RZG, who received 2 free passes to a local strip club. much fun was had, and I have a gallery set up with pictures I took.
About 20-25 people showed up, got their /. teeshirts, and several good pints.
It was right next to World Series stadium, though that wasnt a game night.
Thanks to Blue Meanie for hosting.
Well, I live in Colombia, South America, and we managed to get two, TWO, YES TWO PEOPLE IN COLOMBIA WHO READ SLASHDOT!!! So, taking the context into consideration, our party was a complete success as I was not expecting to find another Slashdot reader here (BTW, our party was just having a coffee, after all we have a great coffee, and a couple of beers) :-)
Thanks for the gallery link.
Just want to know if we are alone who organized a party and haven't got them.
The Houston Slashdot party was quite a success, with a write-up at that link. I'm grateful for all the people I met and hope to see you maniacs again when my wounds heal.
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A new location / date will be announced this time with t-shirts!
Yet another excuse to fall off the wagon.
Info here or at myslashdottag+interactive at gee male.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Well, we only had three people show up, so it was much smaller than the dozen that said they were going to.
Of course, nobody popped an email to me, so I couldn't send them reminders (none of the folks have visible
emails in their profiles) so, what do ya do?
We didn't get the swag until a week after the party, although it did arrive via two-day air.
Interesting that.
But we had fun, and drank good beer and ate good pizza, and swapped some fun stories.
Really, it was all about the beer and pizza, and that made it a win.
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Quite a few people showed up for the size of the town (at least 20). Zonk was hosting and was very friendly, got to talk about games with him for a bit. He brought plenty of t-shirts for everybody and some thinkgeek catalogs to hand out. I couldn't stay for very long but it was fun while I was there.
I thought this place would be a sports bar associated with Arsenal F.C. but see it was the site of a spanish colonial arsenal. Interesting history...
Reminds me of something ... "Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Last time I checked we were supposedly going to have the second biggest gathering outside North America, with 31 acceptances.
The eight of us who actually turned up on the right night had an enjoyable evening, albeit with far too much cake.
The obligatory photographic record was already linked from my rarely used journal.
-- Our systemic servants do not good masters make.
> winner will be whoever sends the things that make their party look the coolest,
Getting a bunch of geeks together and awarding a prize for "coolest party" is like getting a bunch of golden retrievers together and offering a reward for "best haiku"...
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Ok we hosted a party in Bogota with the amazing figure of 2 (that's two) attendees, had some beers and empanadas.
We haven't found a link or address to send the pictures but I guess I'll just post the URL for everybody to see, hope it counts for the contest.
OK I'll feel like cheating if I don't say this: The cake is fake just a masterpiece of photoshop art.
Drinking will be permitted as long as you wear a bib... http://woodlandca.googlepages.com/slashdotlimoservice
Down here in sunny Florida we had a great time. Everyone who signed up , showed up, and the party ran on for 2 hours past the scheduled end time. I got to meet another female /. member and actually our uid's were lower than most of them menfolk there. My guess is we definatly had the largest percentage of female slashdotters at a party.
We cooked out and I made brownies for dessert. We basically sat around eating and talking about slashdot, Gnu/Linux, RMS, Microsoft , Google and weapons. (not necessarily in that order)
While we won't be winning any prizes for coolest party it was a great idea and got us out from behind our screens and meeting face to face. A strange and wondrous new experience for us.
I set up a party at "San Jose 5" bar in Buenos Aires. But the place was closed. So I end up alone:
:)
Me @ San Jose bar
(short link)
There should be a prize for this
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When are we having a make-up party?
Hehe, wish I could help, but I never got the box of T-shirts, and the venue never called me to indicate they had ever received any ...
On the bright side, Taco did send me the PDF for the poster I did up.
-Stu
Here are the pictures from the Toronto bash. iPhone quality (i.e. 'meh'). Around 40 showed up. Great time.
-Stu
It was a good time in Colorado Springs, with new faces and familiar ones. Not everyone who signed up showed up, but about 10 of us kept the geek fire burning. Lots o games, geek trivia, geeky prizes (my comp since no /. schwag showed) and a darn good bartender. We may spin off a semi-regular geek-in to welcome those who were interested but couldn't attend. Slashdot gets a good start on the next 10!
The party was scheduled for 6pm-10pm & I arrived to Cakeshop late at 10pm. The staff at Cakeshop said they were on the third party of the night & that the geeks had left hours ago but outside, amongst the hipsters smoking, I was able to spot the party animals of the slashdot crowd maligning perl & discussing the New York Times database. We took a picture & I went back in to Cakeshop to enjoy the hipster heavy metal party. I closed out the bar & went home.
I too hosted a party and never heard from anybody at Slashdot. We had person show up who I think was there primarily for the free stuff. The rest of us just looked at it as a chance to get out and have a couple of brews.
Thanks to Vinz, we had a reasonably good party. Drinking Guinness in an Irish pub, a few attempts at video gaming with a wii, a nice dinner in a good restaurant, then attempts to get some classy photos of Paris with the slashdot logo. Much comparing of geekiness, what techie universes we travel in, a DSW of who has used computers the longest, and generally a good time had by all.
/.ers who just didn't want to be photographed in the crowd of geeks.
Only 8 of the 18 who signed up managed to make it. There was a serious transport strike during the first attempt at a party, as well as competing with crowds of drunken Rugby fans for space in an Irish pub. So the Paris party was delayed one week which cost us in participation. But I also know several
A few of my photos I've put up on Flickr, and I'll try to get more of them processed and up later when time permits.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16904799@N05/
A quick request for everyone posting photos to sharing sites that support tags, can you add the tag "slashdot" or "slashdotparty" so we can find them later.
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
Same here. Hosted party, no free stuff, but we did get to drink some brews. Quite disappointed in the lack of organization/response from slashdot though. Ah well...