European Community Weekend in Berlin

37 blob 24 January 2014 05:55PM

The Berlin Meetup Group is organizing the first European community meetup. We are planning a fun weekend with a focus on bringing the LessWrong community closer together. As a treat, some participants offer rationality exercises and workshops.

If you like your local meetup we hope you will like this too. It is similar, but bigger: You will get to meet and exchange ideas with a diverse set of awesome people from all across Europe. And if you don’t have a meetup nearby or didn’t get around to participating yet, this is a great opportunity to get in touch with the rest of the community.

The community weekend will take place April 11-13, from Friday evening to Sunday early afternoon, in the Odyssee Hostel in Berlin. The cost is 70 € including accommodation and breakfast. A conference room with a projector and wifi will also be available during daytime.

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Meetup : Community Weekend in Berlin

0 blob 24 January 2014 03:53PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Community Weekend in Berlin

WHEN: 11 April 2014 04:00:00PM (+0100)

WHERE: Grünberger Str. 23, 10243 Berlin

We usually don't announce individual meetups here, but this is an exception! Check the full announcement for details on how to sign up.

Please join our mailing list if you're interested in our regular meetups.

Discussion article for the meetup : Community Weekend in Berlin

Comment author: mjr 24 January 2014 11:56:48AM 2 points [-]

Email sent, hopefully also received... (Apparently my last mail to John was put in spam.)

Comment author: blob 24 January 2014 03:03:39PM 2 points [-]

If you send me a message with your email address, I'll make sure it gets to John. See you there!

Meetup : Berlin

0 blob 11 November 2013 12:35PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin

WHEN: 01 January 2019 01:30:00PM (+0100)

WHERE: Berlin, Germany

This is a long term meetup announcement for Berlin. We're not sure we'll actually meet on the date given here, but there'll definitely be meetups (usually at least monthly) in the meantime.

Please join our mailing list for details.

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin

Meetup : Berlin: Fermi paradox discussion

1 blob 12 September 2013 08:27AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin: Fermi paradox discussion

WHEN: 18 October 2013 07:00:00PM (+0200)

WHERE: S Wuhletal, 12621 Berlin

We're meeting to discuss the Fermi paradox and the great filter. Everyone is welcome! There'll probably be 6-12 people.

Please look at the mailing list for details.

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin: Fermi paradox discussion

Meetup : Berlin Social Meetup

0 blob 16 April 2013 04:27PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin Social Meetup

WHEN: 15 June 2013 05:00:00PM (+0200)

WHERE: Wuhletal, 12621 Berlin

This is a long-term announcement, we are actually meeting biweekly! The intervening meetups aren't planned as far in advance, please use the mailing list!

Our next regular social meetup will be held on Saturday 15th June. It will likely take place at my house, check our mailing list for details.

The social meetup is intended as an informal and relaxed event for chats and games. Everyone is welcome!

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin Social Meetup

Meetup : Berlin Social Meetup

0 blob 16 April 2013 04:24PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin Social Meetup

WHEN: 20 April 2013 07:30:00PM (+0200)

WHERE: U Leinestr, 12049 Berlin, Germany

Our next regular social meetup will be held on Saturday 20th April. We're meeting at John's place: If you're interested in coming, join our mailing list to get the exact location.

The social meetup is intended as an informal and relaxed event for chats and games. Everyone is welcome!

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin Social Meetup

Comment author: blob 04 April 2013 09:55:27AM 0 points [-]

The location changed! Please check the mailing list for details.

Meetup : Berlin, practical rationality

2 blob 30 March 2013 07:16PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin, practical rationality

WHEN: 05 April 2013 07:30:00PM (+0200)

WHERE: S Wuhletal, 12621 Berlin, Germany

As announced on the mailing list: The next meetup will happen on Friday, April 5th, 19:30 at my house and we'll try something new. I declare it a 'practical rationality' or 'work' meetup, in which I'd like to establish some differences from the regular social gatherings we've done so far.

  • Have a plan. Schedule food and activities. Actually follow it.
  • Moderate discussion more strongly. Each subgroup will have one person responsible for keeping things on track, stop inadvertent topic switches, interrupt excessive anecdotes.
  • Will probably alternate with social meetups.

Here's what I suggest for Friday:

19:30 - 20:00 - Settling down and food.

Edit: Fixme.

20:00 - 20:30 - What have you learned since we last met? What have you done?

This could be an interesting regular activity where we get a glimpse of what you're doing and which could help seed discussion later. Everyone is prompted to talk, answers should be short (< 3 min).

20:30 - 21:15 - Discussion groups?

I'd like to try breaking into discussion groups. The idea is that there are a several people who've announced beforehand that they'd lead a discussion on some topic and have briefly studied it. At the meetup, they give a mini-presentation (5 minute-ish) and everyone else decides which group to join. At the end of the session, one person from each group summarises for everyone else.

Check the mailing list for topics.

21:15 - end - Chat.

See you there!

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin, practical rationality

Meetup : Berlin social

2 blob 15 March 2013 08:06PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin social

WHEN: 23 March 2013 05:00:00PM (+0100)

WHERE: S Wuhletal, Berlin

We're meeting at my house again for a meetup on Saturday, March 23rd. Everyone is welcome. Please check the thread on our mailing list for details and the precise location.

Primarily, this is a social event where we talk and play games. There's one extra activity on the agenda:

  • Everyone shares one goal. No matter whether it's something big or a short-term thing. State it, explain why, have a 2-minute pause to think, talk about how to achieve it as well as about alternatives for getting the same effect a different way.

Food worked out really well last time, we'll try that again unchanged. That means I'll make some soup, we will probably order pizza and you are encouraged to bring something tasty. It's perfectly ok to bring just a little, last time there was a lot left over.

See you there!

Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin social

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