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Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Party Grand Prize Winner

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the congratulations-for-the-carnage dept.

From Brisbane to Beunos Aires... From the UK to France to Romania... from New York to San Francisco and everywhere in between, we had well over 100s of parties and over 2,300 registered attendees scattered around the world. Many of them got boxes of t-shirts and ThinkGeek gift certificates (and some of them even got them on time). We've seen cakes with legos and logos, we seen nerf gun fights, and even a lawn sporking. I've put a tiny sampling of my favorite pictures online. The grand prize winner is of the $1k store credit at ThinkGeek is Lindsi from Minneapolis. Their party featured a lolcats cake, a taco bar and a dude in a helmet smashing computers with a sledge hammer in a raining parking lot. They earned it. We had a great time in both Palo Alto and Ann Arbor- I hope you guys had fun wherever you gathered. See you again in 2017!

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  1. Ugh, lolcats?? by Tetsujin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is a punishable offense, not something to be rewarded...

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    1. Re:Ugh, lolcats?? by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 2, Interesting

      If you read any photography related web forums, something I strongly advise against, you'll see that lolcats photos are pretty popular.

      Some guy buys a $3000 lens for his $3000 DSLR, shoots a photo of his cat, then posts a modified JPG version so everyone can validate his pointless consumerism. "Here I am shooting cat photos in my living room with $10,000 in camera gear. Please tell me how excellent my purchasing acumen is."

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  2. Do my eyes deceive me? by paranode · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or is there an attractive female in those pics?!?

  3. My favorite photo by eknagy · · Score: 5, Funny

    My favorite photo is:
    http://www.math.bme.hu/~gergoe/cake.jpg

    1. Re:My favorite photo by Eco-Mono · · Score: 2, Funny

      Most significant bit. Otherwise, someone might have claimed that Slashdot was only 0x05. Got to nip those endian issues in the bud. ;)

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  4. Congratulations Lindsi! by Provocateur · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wondering what you would pick from ThinkGeek, do certain things come to mind right away, or you had to do several browse sessions?

    In short, what's on your THinkGeek wishlist (or shopping cart, if you hadn't made a wish list). Just curious what a /. winner would pick. Awright, you got me: I just want to live vicariously through you!

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    1. Re:Congratulations Lindsi! by lindsi · · Score: 5, Informative

      Thanks! We all had a blast at this party. I have to say the prize money will be split up amongst the other brains of the operation - I have to give credit where credit is due, to Corey (vibrant_com), Kris (kblommel) and Hudson (decepticoneazye) for their efforts. Maybe we can put it towards something everyone can enjoy at the next geeky-get together. (I heard /. has birthdays every year...! Ha.)

  5. Hey.. by eniac42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And chicks! They got chicks!

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    1. Re:Hey.. by anticypher · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Chicks? But of course. There are lots more women working in technology than basement dwelling /.ers would admit to. The Lyon, France party was mostly organized by the French Women in Free Computing group.

      Since I just screwed up the links to their site, I'll post to the Linux Chix in France site here, since replying to correct my own post would be bad netiquette.

      the AC

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  6. Re:This God It's Over by AmaDaden · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you hate hearing about /. so much goto http://meta.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome and set it so you don't have to see those articles. Trolling about how this is a "circle-jerk" is not a solution.

  7. No way, the winner should be Skiboricus... by frankie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...because he never showed up at the party he hosted and apparently ran off with all the free swag. I'll pay $5 to anyone who helps me track down this lousy thief.

    1. Re:No way, the winner should be Skiboricus... by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Actually I think it should have the person that hosted the party in Port St. Lucie FL.
      I think we had the third biggest turnout in the state and we still haven't gotten any swag. Good burgers and good people though.
      Not even some Slashdot stickers!

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  8. Beunos Aires? by powermacx · · Score: 2, Informative

    Should be Buenos Aires.

  9. Re:Yee Ha! by DecepticonEazyE · · Score: 2, Informative

    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA That rocks!!!!! Check out our details. http://www.vibrant.com/blog/slashdot-anniversary-party-recap/ We had so much fun!!!

  10. Parties in France by anticypher · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There were parties in Paris and Lyon, with reasonably good turnout. The party in Lyon profited from having some good organizers who knew each other. They had a Duke Nukem release party :-)

    Lyon party photos from Zopeuse and more from the pterjan, and the Logiciel Libre crowd.

    In Paris we attempted all the typical "geek" or "nerd" activities; drank Guinness, played wii games, ate a good meal, compared our DSLR cameras, had a DSW over who had been using computers the longest, and finally took some photos. Those are just mine, either I'll grab the other people's photos and add them, or let them post a link in a followup posting.

    the AC

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  11. Thanks & that barmaid with the slash book by Lord+Satri · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thanks first for the opportunity. Montréal's Slash party was nice. Maybe we were about 25 slash enthusiasts at the climax. Here's my summary right after the party (with alcohol still running in my veins): "Interesting to see a sample of Slashdot readers. Most were very friendly, some were rather shy (as we expect nerds to be?), some were "older" but some were also very young! And the discussions about 1.5D, 2.5D, 3.5D, surfing in Hawifi, this North Korean drum-driven CD and three-way code merge were definitely worthy of a Slash-like party, and that barmaid reading the Slash book. Yeah. We should have more of this. Life still has surprises. Thanks."

    One of the pictures on Picasa web album is a barmaid which accepted to play our game and be photographed while faking reading the cryptic "Running web logs with Slash" book (I happen to run a small slash-based website, that's why a bought a copy of the book). As good slash users, pictures were copied on the web even as the event occurred by people at the party :-)

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    1. Re:Thanks & that barmaid with the slash book by paulius_g · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I wish I went to the Montreal party. At first, I believe it was to be held at a bar. I'm not 18 years old and unlike many of my fellow peers, I don't have a fake ID nor plan to get one. Good to know that you all had a great time.

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  12. that's CHEATING! by zanderredux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    no photoshopped pics! that was the rule as I understood!

  13. And how fitting... by sootman · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... that the story to cap the festivities would contain the awkward phrase "... we had well over 100s of parties..."

    The proud Slashdot editorial tradition continues. Here's to over tens of more great years! :-)

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  14. Video, for whoever's interested! by lindsi · · Score: 2, Informative

    Highlight reel here and full-length here. (Oh, and being a female, I can vouch for not only our existence, but our presence at the party!! :-D)

  15. Creative! by gbridge · · Score: 4, Funny

    You really have to give them full marks for creativity. They even made cardboard cutouts of girls!