I'm in Uppsala, close to Stockholm. Not sure on my travel options/interest though, I guess I'd like first to read some 'reports' about what LW meetups are like.
I'm moderately sleep-deprived now so the following may or may not be a sensible observation: do not discount slightly out-of-the-way locations for the possible meeting place. London/Paris/Rome/Berlin are heavenly, but (1) everybody's been there before and (2) they are relatively expensive. Smaller capitals like Budapest, Lisbon or Dublin are still full of low-cost flight connections, but they are cheaper and, despite them having a ton to offer, people are less likely to have seen them already.
Putting together a small meeting of like-minded smart people in the EU is quite a different proposition compared to the US, speaking from personal experience (and in fact with fresh memories of just such a meeting near Strasbourg this past week, with 11 people from Sweden, Denmark, the UK, France, Italy, Germany and one from the US).
In the US you fly or drive everywhere, and people tend to all have the same options, it's a relatively egalitarian geography.
In Europe people have different preferences re flying, driving or taking a train, depending on where t...
There are readers on this blog from all over the world - many of them spread out over Europe. How many of you would be interested in a European meetup of LW readers?
We do not have big clusters like Silicon Valley, but we have low cost airlines, and lots of interesting places.
If interested please comment.