I like this idea. After a quick browse, I couldn't find any information regarding any upcoming Nirmukta meets on their site. Are any planned in the near future?
Also, I'm out of B'lore on 11th/12th. So 18th/19th works well for me.
I'd suggest rather than initiating them in LessWrong meets straight away a first step should be to recommend LessWrong to your friends there and then include those who take an interest in it. Else we just merge into their larger community.
Going through Nirmukta's objectives I see a lot of focus on public discourse of science and religion, a lot of discussion on godmen, astrology and the like, which are surely important but not much of a focus in LW.
Anyway, I'm ok for any weekend after 5th/6th.. We'll wait to hear from the others. The winner so far seems to be 18th/19th.
Damn, I can't believe there was meet up here and I missed it :(
I should be lurking more often here. So, what was the turn out like? Minutes of the meeting, anyone?
:( And I posted it two weeks in advance too!
Me and Twig turned up and first despaired of having enough to talk about for 3 hours in case nobody turns up and well looking at our watches at seven and deciding that we should probably leave.
No minutes - the discussion was all over the place. We decided to try again for a meetup a couple of months later and see if we'll get a better turn out. So far I know the three of us from Bangalore and one person in Chennai. Other lurkers are requested to comment here or PM me so we can get a propah meetup going. And anyone from Chennai/Hyd etc can also let us know if they'll be interested in joining a Bangalore meetup.
I'll be there.