A Fun Slashdot 15th Anniversary Get-Together in St. Petersburg, FL (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on Thursday November 1, 2012 @05:55AM from the let-loose-the-model-helicopters-of-war! dept.

A lot of people in a lot of places celebrated Slashdot's 15th anniversary by getting together with other Slashdot readers in person. In the Tampa Bay part of Florida, a small and humble meeting was sponsored by an open source company called Fextel at their St. Petersburg HQ. The catering was excellent, and it was a fun group of 12 or so who showed up, about half of whom knew each other from the Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG). So we had good food and good people. What else did we need? Remote control helicopter battles, of course! In retrospect, we now believe remote helicopters crashing into each other should be required at any event with a Slashdot theme. We may may just be saying this because we live someplace where the NFL won't let us watch any home games, so we are more entertainment-deprived than most Americans. Then again, maybe helicopter wars are just plain cooler than watching football, and the USA should have fewer NFL games and more Slashdot-based parties.

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St. Petersburg by PoopManners · 2012-11-01 05:56 · Score: 2

What's up with Americans stealing other countries city names?

And only good food and people? No booze? What kind of party is that?
1. Re:St. Petersburg by solardiesel · 2012-11-01 06:32 · Score: 2
  
  This is not the greatest city in the world. This is just a tribute.
2. Re:St. Petersburg by DylanQuixote · 2012-11-01 07:28 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  The city was named St. Petersburg by a Russian immigrant and railroad tycoon, Peter Demens (Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev, cyrillic: slashdot won't display)
Re:Better than Vancouver's party by DylanQuixote · 2012-11-01 11:26 · Score: 2

St. Petersburg is the second largest city in the metro area, which is called Tampa Bay
From Wikipedia: "The Census Bureau currently estimates the population for the CMSA at 4,228,855 as of 2010 during consolidation.[3] as of July 1, 2008, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Florida and fourth in the Southeast."