This question is a simple marketing survey. Typically, however, marketing surveys that ask "What do you want?" don't actually get you relevant results. Lots of people THINK they want a bunch of particular things, but when presented with them in the final product those specific things often get totally ignored.
Here's a suggestion: Ask "What's pisses you off about certain developer programs? What things, upon noticing them, make you stop dead in your tracks and go somewhere else?"
Then do the opposite.
Once you've made sure you're not going to immediately turn people away, then start picking the best of the "core features" suggested in other posts here.
You're never going to please 100% of the people 100% of the time, but if you start by trying as hard as you can to not DISplease people you're already 50% of the way there.
DNA has regular scheduled events on weekends that aren't as compatible with things like Mozilla, EFF, etc.
Or to put it another way: Jaime hates the music played at his own club on weekends, so if there's going to be a party there that he wants to go to, it's not going to be on a Friday or Saturday. (:
As well, Fridays and Saturdays at DNA are already crowded with non-geek types. A Mozilla/EFF/etc. party combined with one of those nights would be a major clash.
The Slashdot meetup starts at 7:00pm. The DNA Lounge doesn't open until 8:00pm, and that's if you want to pay $50 for "VIP" entry. Otherwise it starts at 9:00pm.
Also, DNA Lounge is a 21+ venue, while the three possible locations for the meetup are all restaurant/bars, and thus are all ages.
Go to the meetup first, and then the EFF benefit. Probably many people will do this together.
BTW, there's a Yahoo discussion group/mailing list for Slashdot in San Francisco at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/slashdot-sf. Discussion of meetup location choices, and the EFF benefit conflict has been going on there.
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This question is a simple marketing survey. Typically, however, marketing surveys that ask "What do you want?" don't actually get you relevant results. Lots of people THINK they want a bunch of particular things, but when presented with them in the final product those specific things often get totally ignored.
Here's a suggestion: Ask "What's pisses you off about certain developer programs? What things, upon noticing them, make you stop dead in your tracks and go somewhere else?"
Then do the opposite.
Once you've made sure you're not going to immediately turn people away, then start picking the best of the "core features" suggested in other posts here.
You're never going to please 100% of the people 100% of the time, but if you start by trying as hard as you can to not DISplease people you're already 50% of the way there.
-= Lunatic
DNA has regular scheduled events on weekends that aren't as compatible with things like Mozilla, EFF, etc.
Or to put it another way: Jaime hates the music played at his own club on weekends, so if there's going to be a party there that he wants to go to, it's not going to be on a Friday or Saturday. (:
As well, Fridays and Saturdays at DNA are already crowded with non-geek types. A Mozilla/EFF/etc. party combined with one of those nights would be a major clash.
-= Lunatic
The Slashdot meetup starts at 7:00pm. The DNA Lounge doesn't open until 8:00pm, and that's if you want to pay $50 for "VIP" entry. Otherwise it starts at 9:00pm.
Also, DNA Lounge is a 21+ venue, while the three possible locations for the meetup are all restaurant/bars, and thus are all ages.
Go to the meetup first, and then the EFF benefit. Probably many people will do this together.
BTW, there's a Yahoo discussion group/mailing list for Slashdot in San Francisco at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/slashdot-sf. Discussion of meetup location choices, and the EFF benefit conflict has been going on there.
-= Lunatic