Posting here as a boost; not sure how "nearest meetup" listings work, and I want to pass this on to everyone in Australia/New Zeland.

http://lesswrong.com/meetups/1bt

Camp is super interesting; very much achieves the goal of meeting and hanging out with other brilliant lesswrong people.  Last year I made such good friends that I still consider them some of the closest I have ever made; even without talking to them for weeks at a time.  Although I also do tend to talk to them every other day usually.

There is also an opportunity to learn skills, this year's camp is themed around topics such as:

• productivity
• effectiveness
• functioning successfully at life
• Food, exercise, health, technology skills
• How to win at life
• Turbocharging training
• High impact culture
• Effective communication
• CoZE

Its gonna be great, Please come along if you are in Australia!  Part of what makes camp so great is that so many LessWrong people come along and also enjoy the company of each other.

If you know someone who is not regularly on www.lesswrong.com and likely to miss this post - please make sure to direct them to here.

Any questions - send me a message. :)