The location for the meetup in Karlsruhe on 18.09.21 15:00 has been moved to the Fasanengarten, 49.014051,8.412563 , as the Schlossgarten is occupied by a festival.
Attention - The meetup in WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND has been postponed due to level 3 lockdown. It will now be held on Sunday 26th September, same time and place. I have sent emails out to those who RSVPd with emails, but there are a couple of people who have RSVPd without providing contact information, so I hope this message gets through to you in time. Other interested people, still a chance to come along!
Scott, could you update the entry for CALGARY? Due to a flight cancellation, I cannot host the Calgary meetup tomorrow. Please delay it by one week, to September 5.
For some reason, when I got this email, Gmail decided to *automatically* put the Winnipeg event on Saturday into my calendar, which was pretty annoying. I have never been to Winnipeg.
Probably just a hiccup with whatever system Gmail uses to do such things but thought I'd mention in case this happened to tons of other people, too, in which case you might want to figure out if something about your email caused it.
You probably get a fair amount of this, but let me pitch you on Birmingham as a stop on your EU tour.
*It has undergone a considerable amount of revitalisation in the last decade. Its current mix of the modern and the historical is a feast for the soul.
*It is a transport hub. If you plan to travel the UK by ground, you will almost certainly pass through / by Birmingham.
*There are a load of small fascinating museums based on Birmingham's industrial heritage. I would personally recommend the Back to Backs, the Museum of the Jewellery Quater, and the Coffin Works.
*It is a fantastically foody city. I guarantee if you go to any of the highly-rated restaurants in the city, you will have a great time (Although I would recommend an Indian, as that is something of a local speciality.
I noticed a few of these being at 4am and 5:30am on the spreadsheet and here - presumably a typo? Or do people in Mexico City really like waking up early?
Scott, if there was fundraising for new features for reciprocity.io would you share it? Feels like it's close to being great but needs a few features (ie being able to add a twitter account) . Tweetledee.xyz does this, but doesn't do Facebook or scrape Twitter lists so is a bit worse.
Will attendees be required to be fully vaccinated against covid? Previously you suggested this as a possibility but there is no mention of it here. (You also stated that such a requirement would not be enforceable, but at least in the US or other countries with vaccination cards it is easily enforceable.) Clearly covid is important to people if essentially all of the meet ups have been moved outdoors, so it seems weird not to make this step (in countries where the vaccine is readily available, of course).
I think this is the first or second-ever ACX/SSC meetup in Indonesia, so I don't know who will come... but please come at the time and place, me and at minimum two other ACX friends will be there!
Arborea Cafe is fully outdoor and is very, very wide FYI. It's located inside the Kementerian Kehutanan complex (open for public).
I'm a bit confused, Madrid isn't in the Meetup excel, is that a planned meetup still? I have no idea how I'd even host a meetup there, but would def go if there was one.
I don't have the capacity to be an organizer this year but was hoping/expecting someone would do it for Kuala Lumpur and I'd stop by. I'll volunteer next year.
Excited to see so many meetups in the Netherlands.
The w3w links are hilarious. I feel sorry for the organizers who chose a great meetup location only to discover the name was so sad as "nobody joined friend" or so scary as "tigers-wasp union"
Wow, you'll be visiting Berlin, I'm thrilled to hear that. If there are any questions concerning your travel or stay, or holiday in Germany or whatever, please feel free to let me know. Also via mail or any other forum that you find convenient.
Hey yo Scott- I’m the dork running the Harbor City meetup on the 28th. I’m not sure if it’s my screw up, your screw up, or my phone autocorrecting when I didn’t tell it to when I did the thing, but the email is Eric[dot]L[dot]Fore[at]gmail[dot]. Not “fire”.
Note that w3w is promoting proprietary, closed system. Why not use regular coordinates or even plus codes? For once Google is promoting not something that is a closed garden.
Request that if you do this again, you notify organizers in advance if/when you plan to stop by (or at least give more explicit warning that it might happen). It's pretty frustrating for organizers to plan a meetup and then have it unilaterally moved later.
The location for the meetup in Karlsruhe on 18.09.21 15:00 has been moved to the Fasanengarten, 49.014051,8.412563 , as the Schlossgarten is occupied by a festival.
Attention - The meetup in WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND has been postponed due to level 3 lockdown. It will now be held on Sunday 26th September, same time and place. I have sent emails out to those who RSVPd with emails, but there are a couple of people who have RSVPd without providing contact information, so I hope this message gets through to you in time. Other interested people, still a chance to come along!
I'll be driving down from Westchester to the NYC meetup Sunday. If you would like a ride, let me know!
Sydney meetup the link is wrong, this is the link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2310802810
See you soon
Scott, could you update the entry for CALGARY? Due to a flight cancellation, I cannot host the Calgary meetup tomorrow. Please delay it by one week, to September 5.
Very unhappy to learn that the NYC meet up is the first day of Rosh Hashona
For some reason, when I got this email, Gmail decided to *automatically* put the Winnipeg event on Saturday into my calendar, which was pretty annoying. I have never been to Winnipeg.
Probably just a hiccup with whatever system Gmail uses to do such things but thought I'd mention in case this happened to tons of other people, too, in which case you might want to figure out if something about your email caused it.
You probably get a fair amount of this, but let me pitch you on Birmingham as a stop on your EU tour.
*It has undergone a considerable amount of revitalisation in the last decade. Its current mix of the modern and the historical is a feast for the soul.
*It is a transport hub. If you plan to travel the UK by ground, you will almost certainly pass through / by Birmingham.
*There are a load of small fascinating museums based on Birmingham's industrial heritage. I would personally recommend the Back to Backs, the Museum of the Jewellery Quater, and the Coffin Works.
*It is a fantastically foody city. I guarantee if you go to any of the highly-rated restaurants in the city, you will have a great time (Although I would recommend an Indian, as that is something of a local speciality.
I noticed a few of these being at 4am and 5:30am on the spreadsheet and here - presumably a typo? Or do people in Mexico City really like waking up early?
Thank you for keeping this going despite all the Delta fearmongering. Will definitely attend the Seattle one.
Wow. That itinerary is awesome enough to make Mick Jagger jealous. Pretty damn impressive.
How is reciprocity.io supposed to work for friend finding, since it's limited to your FB friends?
Scott, if there was fundraising for new features for reciprocity.io would you share it? Feels like it's close to being great but needs a few features (ie being able to add a twitter account) . Tweetledee.xyz does this, but doesn't do Facebook or scrape Twitter lists so is a bit worse.
Will attendees be required to be fully vaccinated against covid? Previously you suggested this as a possibility but there is no mention of it here. (You also stated that such a requirement would not be enforceable, but at least in the US or other countries with vaccination cards it is easily enforceable.) Clearly covid is important to people if essentially all of the meet ups have been moved outdoors, so it seems weird not to make this step (in countries where the vaccine is readily available, of course).
Hi! I'm the Indonesian (Jakarta) organizer.
I think this is the first or second-ever ACX/SSC meetup in Indonesia, so I don't know who will come... but please come at the time and place, me and at minimum two other ACX friends will be there!
Arborea Cafe is fully outdoor and is very, very wide FYI. It's located inside the Kementerian Kehutanan complex (open for public).
Hey! Moscow organizer here:
1. Could you change the coordinates to https://what3words.com/sectors.toffee.sweeten, the current one points to the wrong side of the building.
2. RSVP on LW shows the location for another meetup.
I'm a bit confused, Madrid isn't in the Meetup excel, is that a planned meetup still? I have no idea how I'd even host a meetup there, but would def go if there was one.
I don't have the capacity to be an organizer this year but was hoping/expecting someone would do it for Kuala Lumpur and I'd stop by. I'll volunteer next year.
Excited to see so many meetups in the Netherlands.
The w3w links are hilarious. I feel sorry for the organizers who chose a great meetup location only to discover the name was so sad as "nobody joined friend" or so scary as "tigers-wasp union"
Wow, you'll be visiting Berlin, I'm thrilled to hear that. If there are any questions concerning your travel or stay, or holiday in Germany or whatever, please feel free to let me know. Also via mail or any other forum that you find convenient.
Excited! :)
Given that last year's Berkeley event had 105 indicated by the excel doc, isn't the Berkeley location going to be incredibly packed?
the Lakewood one is walking distance so I think I'm out of excuses....
Hey yo Scott- I’m the dork running the Harbor City meetup on the 28th. I’m not sure if it’s my screw up, your screw up, or my phone autocorrecting when I didn’t tell it to when I did the thing, but the email is Eric[dot]L[dot]Fore[at]gmail[dot]. Not “fire”.
Ty
The Israeli RVSP seems to lead to a dufferent date than the one stated in the post (October instead of September). Which is the correct one?
Note that w3w is promoting proprietary, closed system. Why not use regular coordinates or even plus codes? For once Google is promoting not something that is a closed garden.
Personally I would recommend OSM, but it is not so good (for now) in USA. See say https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.51081&mlon=13.39865#map=18/52.51081/13.39865 (link like this can be generated by going to share on right - this icon with an arrow and selecting ""Include marker)
Request that if you do this again, you notify organizers in advance if/when you plan to stop by (or at least give more explicit warning that it might happen). It's pretty frustrating for organizers to plan a meetup and then have it unilaterally moved later.
The RSVP link to Berkeley is to the Grass Valley one
The RSVP link for Champaign-Urbana leads to the RSVP for Honolulu, Hawaii. Here's the actual link: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/SWFfLvBy3mcocAJBh/champaign-urbana-il-acx-meetups-everywhere-2021