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[German] Wo wohnt ihr?

13 Post author: Metus 09 December 2011 01:51AM

Disclaimer: Since this article is directed at LessWrongers living in Germany, Austria or Switzerland it is written in German. It just asks where people live via asking them for their ZIP code, so it is only interesting for people there.

Der letzte Zensus von Yvain wurde etwas mehr als tausend mal ausgefüllt. Leider wurde nicht gefragt aus welchem Land die Leute kommen aber ich vermute dass auch einige aus deutschsprachigen Ländern dabei sind. Ein Treffen in München wurde bereits organisiert aber ich denke es ist sehr nützlich zu wissen wo in Deutschland Leser von LessWrong wohnen um zu wissen wo es sich lohnen würde ein Meetup zu organisieren. Damit die Daten an einem Platz sind habe ich bei Google Docs eine Umfrage erstellt und bitte euch dieses auszufüllen falls ihr aus Deutschland, Österreich oder der Schweiz kommt und an Meetups interessiert wärt. Falls ihr aus einem der angrenzenden Länder kommt und bereit wärt zu einem Meetup zu fahren, tragt euch in den nächstgelegenen Ort hinter der Grenze ein.

In der Umfrage wird nur nach Herkunftsland und Postleitzahl gefragt. Keine der Daten kann auf euch persönlich zurückgeführt werden. Das Ergebnis wird veröffentlicht werden so dass jeder der bereit ist ein Meetup zu organisieren auf diese Daten zurückgreifen kann.

Hier ist der Link zur Umfrage:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFBoN0ppTnlxUU5EUUJwMlJteHRvQUE6MQ

Viel Spaß bei der Umfrage und schreibt in den Kommentaren was ihr davon haltet.

Comments (16)

Comment author: Metus 09 December 2011 05:17:13PM 4 points [-]

16 entries so far. When it reaches 20 or until sunday I will publish the first batch. Maybe this would be interesting for other countries too, should I create a similar form for the USA and Canada?

Comment author: Tripitaka 10 December 2011 04:18:22PM 0 points [-]

While it would be a commendable effort, I do not believe it to be effizient to make a post for every possible country. Esp. USA seems to be already well-connected; and there are too many small countrys to make this feasible. Maybe set up an anonym world-map, where users can set flags?

Comment author: Metus 11 December 2011 04:59:43PM 0 points [-]

I thought more about a form like "Your country" and "Your city or postal code". This way it would be international and people could filter the location out.

Comment author: Tripitaka 11 December 2011 08:36:07PM -1 points [-]

I was not thinking right. Of course would that be a good idea, and thats a feasible approach.

Comment author: Metus 11 December 2011 08:43:00PM 1 point [-]

I will get right to it.

Comment author: Metus 11 December 2011 05:01:44PM 2 points [-]

24 people have registered so far. Here is the link to the spreadsheet with no edit capability: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArVL5H0yXwKFdFBoN0ppTnlxUU5EUUJwMlJteHRvQUE

Feeld free to organise something if you think it is worthwhile.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 December 2011 06:55:26PM *  3 points [-]

... and a basic conversion to Google Maps.

Comment author: Metus 11 December 2011 08:42:41PM 0 points [-]

Great, thank you. Do you have a script for that or did you do it by hand?

Comment author: [deleted] 11 December 2011 09:06:23PM 1 point [-]

I wrote a simple conversion script. See the base directory. I'll keep the map updated.

Comment author: Metus 11 December 2011 09:10:30PM *  0 points [-]

Great. If you want to, I just created a similar questionaire in english (http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/8sm/where_do_you_live_meetup_planners_want_to_know/) so you could write a similar script if that is not too much work.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 December 2011 09:14:15PM 1 point [-]

Sure, I'll have a look once you release the results.

Comment author: Tripitaka 09 December 2011 10:54:22AM 1 point [-]

I highly approve of new chances to get to a LW-meetup.

Comment author: spuckblase 15 December 2011 03:47:12PM 1 point [-]

Ok, so who's the other one living in Berlin?

Comment author: yttrium 28 May 2012 09:04:00AM *  0 points [-]

Me too!

Comment author: blob 04 January 2012 07:37:59AM 0 points [-]

That's me. I found here through HP:MoR fairly recently and am currently reading through the sequences. I'm also a mathematician who, surprisingly, never attended a lecture on probability theory. Eliezer insistently praises Jaynes' "Probability Theory", so I also got that to fill in the blanks.

If you're interested, I'd like to meet and chat. I'll send you a PM.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 January 2012 02:21:25PM 0 points [-]

Wie wäre es mit einem gesamtdeutschen Meetup in Frankfurt? Das liegt vergleichsweise zentral und besitzt eine gute Verkehrsanbindung.

Alternative: Süddeutsches Meetup, vielleicht in Stuttgart

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