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The meetup happened yesterday and we had a higher turnout that I was expecting (I made reservations for "6 to 12" and I think there were ~14 people) and I thought it was super fun, but I got the sense that better prediction/planning could have made it even better. I want to try a small experiment with this comment.
Please, anyone who attended, reply to this comment with an observation of something GOOD, BAD or INTERESTING. The idea is that we should try to repeat and retain the good stuff at future meetups, fix the bad stuff... and the interesting stuff doesn't have to be good or bad but it might grow into a practical intuition pump.
For comments responding to this, please do it like the monthly quotes thread, so if you noticed multiple things, make multiple comments so they can be voted up or down independently. I'll do three by way of example.
(If you were at the meetup but don't have an account you should all make an account and post something here, or at least vote on the other comments!)
BAD: While the venue was a good choice for several reasons (especially for group bonding), one of its downsides was that it was somewhat loud. Conversation was still possible for most of us, but there was a hearing impaired LessWronger in attendance who was unfortunately unable to participate in any group conversations. And while it's not always possible to accommodate everyone, it seems that a quieter venue for future meetings would not only benefit him, but facilitate communication for everyone and increase the maximum conversational group size.
Even with quiet I'm pretty marginal at interacting with a group, I'm afraid, but it's a nice suggestion. (What can work for me as the person in question is one-on-one chat in a quiet environment. So why did I come? Just for the sake of maybe getting surprised -- and I did have a nice chat with mindviews on the way.)