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Reminder: Slashdot Anniversary Meetups, Free T-Shirts
As you may have heard, Slashdot will be celebrating its 15th anniversary in October. As part of that celebration, we've set up a page to organize meetups for Slashdot users to hang out and shoot the breeze in meatspace for a change. We're going to be sending out bunches of free T-shirts to many of these gatherings, and we'll be printing them and sending them out pretty soon. So if you're planning on attending and haven't signed up yet, make sure you do so by the end of the day, so that we can be sure to have enough T-shirts on hand for you. (You can still sign up later, of course, but you may miss your chance at a free shirt.) Slashdot staff will be hosting parties in Ann Arbor, San Francisco, New York, and Raleigh [Edit: And Austin! :) ] (sign up for any of these, or others, on the anniversary party page by filtering for your preferred location). We hope to see you there, or hear about your own meetups!
So far the only one listed for my city is a VERY creepy sounding hot tub party.
Look, no offence but I don't want to IMAGINE fellow Slashdotter's in swimwear let alone see it. And no free t-shirt is going to scrub that imagery from my mind.
If someone want to set up a meetup at something less socially awkward (and more public) then it's on otherwise... ick no
Is it possible to get the Slashdot's 15th Anniversary Shirt logo with black instead of white lettering, black instead of white lines, and a transparent background sized to fit a 11" * 17" paper? I would like to print a few as banners/signs for the Slashdot party.
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We should create a virtual party. Perhaps a forum of some kind could be used.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Reddit would be ideal for that.
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At the junction Kerklaan - Grachtstraat there is a little café called 'de Bres'.
Everyone from the whole of Yurp is welcome!
Come and drink beers, and celebrate the anniversary of our digital overlords from across the pond!
Bring some good vibes and a smile, and all will be fine!
Search under 'other' in the sign-up page.
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Heh, the various layers of company attachments / name changes / etc. have made for some confusion over the years, incl. often for employees. The "main office" for Slashdot, though, is still in Dexter, MI (near Ann Arbor), as it has been for something like a decade. (I forget which year it moved there, exactly.) I've visited there 2 or 3 or maybe 4 times over the years. SourceForge / Geeknet proper has some people in San Francisco and NYC as well as VA; ThinkGeek's offices have been in VA the whole time it's been associated w/ Slashdot (and as far as I know it was was also founded there ... have no reason to think otherwise, and lots of reason to think so), and Yes, a lot of parent company backend stuff has been out of that office. But (sorry, pedantry) I don't think one could ever make the case that *Slashdot's* HQ has been in VA -- but it's nice to have the organization of a company with things like billing / payroll / businessy stuff in general, which lets Slashdot concentrate on stories and discussions about glowing animals, software licensing, model rockets, etc. OTOH, the ThinkGeek folks (being very gracious and fun to hang out with) have let me work from there on several occasions when I was on the east coast and within driving range of their place. Their kitchen always has cool stuff in it, like a giant Death Star cookie jar.
Dice is in Iowa ... and although I've been briefly in Iowa while on road trips a few years back, that's about it. Pretty place, IMO, at least during the times I was there.
The parties [suffer / benefit] from the uncertainties of crowd-sourcing; there's some Shaker-meeting uncertainty, but that also makes things interesting. We hope the ones that transpire turn out to be interesting and fun.
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I can't believe there was not a location set for London yet. Now there is one. At the Scooter Cafe behind Waterloo. It is a great little cafe.