Comments on: London Meetup

London Meetup

Pretty_Generic — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:33:14 -0800

Let's have a London, England meetup. Let's make it Vaguely Competent this time.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:56:43 -0800

it should be good--you have a juicy story to tell, no?

and shout out to me! : >

By: scarabic

scarabic — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:09:49 -0800

For tips on "Vaguely Competent," see our own caitlinb. In addition to attending meetups all over the US on her travels, she's got the Bay Area MeFites whipped up practically into a social club at this point.

Keys would seem to be:
1) firm time/date from the get-go.
2) Reminder 1 week ahead of time.
3) Reminder night-before.
4) Be there & be totally cool, so that, in the future, people will jump at the chance to come to a meetup with you.
5) Have a cell phone and sleep in front of your email inbox with one eye open.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:23:14 -0800

do it for next weekend .......i'm coming down to london then ...

By: grouse

grouse — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:25:22 -0800

My vote is for 5 March. Before then is too early IMHO.

By: dodgygeezer

dodgygeezer — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:28:03 -0800

I'm certainly up for a meet up. I think I'm free the next couple of weekends.

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:33:40 -0800

Bah, only the weekend of 19-20th March for me, although I'm sure you guys wouldn't mind spending more than 1 night in the pub per month.

By: johnny novak

johnny novak — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:03:06 -0800

vote for the Sir Richard Steele, Haverstock Hill. Next weekend.

By: longbaugh

longbaugh — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:23:13 -0800

I wouldn't mind popping my head in the door - any time around March would be cool along with a couple of weeks notice so I can get time off work/sort out a babysitter. You can do it around about March the 7th and buy me a birthday cake (or several pints). Does it have to be London though?

By: salmacis

salmacis — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:43:16 -0800

I could be persuaded..

By: biffa

biffa — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:36:13 -0800

London is so very far away now. Cornwall anyone?

And to echo longbaugh, why does it have to be London? The Oxford meet-up proved more successful than any of the London attempts (to my knowledge). Why not consider somewhere else? (Obviously Cornwall is pretty unlikely, and so is my attendance, which at least gives me the luxury of being able to suggest this from a less biased perspective.)

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:40:27 -0800

I'll go halves and say "Devon".
Meet you in Exeter, my house, say around 7:30, 8-ish.

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:42:54 -0800

I am, unsurprisingly, up for it - wanna catch up with the dodgygeezer, sarge, P_G, et al. I'd prefer early March, if poss, but will try to acommodate any date. West London preferred, if London it be.

Dodgy - wanna make it a viewropa/mefi combo?

By: dodgygeezer

dodgygeezer — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:07:10 -0800

Dodgy - wanna make it a viewropa/mefi combo?

Why, of course! And maybe we can get a few new recruits too.

By: taz

taz — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:12:48 -0800

*cries*

By: grouse

grouse — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:15:38 -0800

Why not consider somewhere else?

Good idea. I suggest Cambridge. ;)

By: hardcode

hardcode — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:04:45 -0800

Can't do weekends, I only work down there during the week. I *can* recommend the best pubs in London though (most of them rather hard to find).

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:42:06 -0800

We're so f'ing English about this.
"Oh you decide."
"No, you decide."
"Oh I couldn't possibly."

So you decide.

I'm around the evenings of 16-19th.
Pass the tea, please.

By: grouse

grouse — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:59:41 -0800

Pretty_Generic: Vaguely Competent

By: MrMustard

MrMustard — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:31:44 -0800

If it's in London I'll try and make it, if only to return the generous shout out given to me by scarabic at the recent Berkeley meet up.

By: dodgygeezer

dodgygeezer — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:37:06 -0800

OK, it looks like NinjaPirate's dates are out for me unless my tattooist breaks his fingers again. The weekend of the 11th is unlikely unless it's the Sunday.

Can I suggest 5th March as a good date (at least for some of us)?

Incidently please note if you can only do weekends as a weeknight might be a solution (and good for hardcode too)

By: grouse

grouse — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:05:13 -0800

Personally I can only do weekends since I don't live in London.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:20:14 -0800

And so it goes.
This is why we can't have nice things (in the uk)

By: grouse

grouse — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 05:44:53 -0800

Sure we can. If we pick a day far enough in advance, then most (but not all) people who really want to go will be able to put it on their calendar and make it. If we try to pick a date within the next couple of weeks, or to time it so that we can do it when such-and-such just happens to be in town, then it will be harder.

By: dodgygeezer

dodgygeezer — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 06:28:36 -0800

Funnily enough I was going to suggest doing both - pick a date soon that most people can make then set a date (in May or June for example) that everyone can make. That means we'd have to be twice as sociable but I'm sure we could cope.

Of course self flagellation has thrown this thread off the front page now so I wonder if we're going to miss any other people who'd be interested in a meet up.

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:57:16 -0800

Yeah - maybe when the self-flagellation cools (when, oh when will that be) we'll announce it again...

By: veedubya

veedubya — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:30:52 -0800

Give me a couple of weeks notice, and I'll be there, for definites. I wanna lay the boggle-eye on you peeps.

By: biffa

biffa — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:05:08 -0800

Actually I can do Exeter...