Blueberry comments on July 2010 Southern California Meetup - Less Wrong

8 Post author: JenniferRM 07 July 2010 07:54PM

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Comment author: Blueberry 08 July 2010 05:52:28PM 1 point [-]

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?

Comment author: JenniferRM 08 July 2010 08:57:40PM 0 points [-]

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

Comment author: Blueberry 08 July 2010 10:03:59PM 1 point [-]

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!

Comment author: JenniferRM 08 July 2010 11:15:02PM 1 point [-]

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.

Comment author: Jordan 09 July 2010 10:31:27PM 0 points [-]

I'm in Santa Barbara and will definitely make it to future meetups. Quarterly would be fantastic!