This was a spur of moment plan based on the opportunity created by the other event. It seems likely that there will be people at the SENS meeting who haven’t “read the sequences” but are nonetheless friendly the the same rough family of ideas and might be introduced to LW on the basis of our attendance.
If anyone can’t make the 3PM time, just coming to the SENS thing later on would probably also be pretty good, and I’m hoping that we can shake people out of the woodwork with this event, and then trade information to enable the next meetup to be better optimized.
Mostly I didn’t want “good enough” to the enemy of “at all”. If you want to organize the next one in a more efficient fashion, I’ll do my best to go to that one too!
I called the pub, made reservations for us, and edited the post above to reveal the location. Now you totally have to come, because its happening in that location just for you :-P
I would love to have future SoCal meetups. Are you interested in having them regularly? Does LA work for you in general? Thank you so much for organizing this!
You’re welcome! Some of the credit should trickle back to Tom McCabe too. He noticed that the event that we’re piggy backing on was in SoCal and contacted me in case I was interested.
Hopefully we’ll figure out some way to organize these more often. The title of this purposefully starts with “July 2010” because I was hoping there would be more in the future with other dates.
I think the trick will be finding a good center of mass. I live in San Diego and would prefer something in Orange county or maybe even south of Camp Pendleton, but I don’t know what our density or center of mass is yet. For all I know there will be people coming down from Santa Barbara. (And again, if there is anyone reading this in San Diego, let me know and I can deal with the driving.)
If it turns out that we have enough density, perhaps we could do something monthly on local levels (within each county) and then have a quarterly meetups for the whole region? Honestly, I think we’ll just have to play it by ear and see what happens.
I wish I could help—that pickup would be an hour after the start of SENS meeting after the LW meetup. If you got there early enough I might be able to give you a ride back, but I’ll have driven past about four hours earlier.
Two ideas:
See if you can wiggle out of work or your other commitments? I think one or two other people might be doing this too. If you wiggle out earlier you might have an easier time finding a carpool.
If no other transportation works out, maybe try the bus system to get there and get a ride back?
I’m in the area for the summer, but I’ll be working until 5pm. If another SoCal meetup happens before August 6, weekends are generally better for me.
You should come after 5. I probably will be doing that. 3 is an odd time; I hope future SoCal meetups are after 5 or on weekends.
This was a spur of moment plan based on the opportunity created by the other event. It seems likely that there will be people at the SENS meeting who haven’t “read the sequences” but are nonetheless friendly the the same rough family of ideas and might be introduced to LW on the basis of our attendance.
If anyone can’t make the 3PM time, just coming to the SENS thing later on would probably also be pretty good, and I’m hoping that we can shake people out of the woodwork with this event, and then trade information to enable the next meetup to be better optimized.
Mostly I didn’t want “good enough” to the enemy of “at all”. If you want to organize the next one in a more efficient fashion, I’ll do my best to go to that one too!
Oh wow! I didn’t realize de Grey himself would be there! Ok, I will definitely come to the SENS thing and try to come to the earlier meetup.
Let’s have the earlier meetup at Brew Co also (same location as the SENS meeting). Would that work?
As you wish, so shall it be.
I called the pub, made reservations for us, and edited the post above to reveal the location. Now you totally have to come, because its happening in that location just for you :-P
Thank you! I appreciate it. :)
I would love to have future SoCal meetups. Are you interested in having them regularly? Does LA work for you in general? Thank you so much for organizing this!
You’re welcome! Some of the credit should trickle back to Tom McCabe too. He noticed that the event that we’re piggy backing on was in SoCal and contacted me in case I was interested.
Hopefully we’ll figure out some way to organize these more often. The title of this purposefully starts with “July 2010” because I was hoping there would be more in the future with other dates.
I think the trick will be finding a good center of mass. I live in San Diego and would prefer something in Orange county or maybe even south of Camp Pendleton, but I don’t know what our density or center of mass is yet. For all I know there will be people coming down from Santa Barbara. (And again, if there is anyone reading this in San Diego, let me know and I can deal with the driving.)
If it turns out that we have enough density, perhaps we could do something monthly on local levels (within each county) and then have a quarterly meetups for the whole region? Honestly, I think we’ll just have to play it by ear and see what happens.
I’m in Santa Barbara and will definitely make it to future meetups. Quarterly would be fantastic!
I don’t have access to transportation, so if anyone has a car and is willing to pass through Orange to pick me up sometime after 6ish, let me know.
I wish I could help—that pickup would be an hour after the start of SENS meeting after the LW meetup. If you got there early enough I might be able to give you a ride back, but I’ll have driven past about four hours earlier.
Two ideas:
See if you can wiggle out of work or your other commitments? I think one or two other people might be doing this too. If you wiggle out earlier you might have an easier time finding a carpool.
If no other transportation works out, maybe try the bus system to get there and get a ride back?
It doesn’t look like I’ll be able to leave work early, so it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to go. I’ll look into the bus system tomorrow though.