[ANN] Eastside Hackers Meetup (5/15/2010)

[zbrown]

Hi all,

We had a pretty successful meetup last week (5/8/2010). I was quite pleased to see a fair number of people showed (my last count was something like 10 or 11). Due to popular demand and other stuff like that, we'll have another meetup this weekend and we'll be targeting more of a hacking meetup. In other words, bring your laptop, work on some stuff, have your own discussions, beat each other with your knowledge and just hang out :).

I think at least this weekend, we'll go to Crossroads again but we'll move further down toward Uncle's Games. Word on the street (or rather amongst those that attended last weekend) was that there are more plugs for us to plugin. For me, a netbook carrier, not such an issue but I know some of the other attendees are carrying around bigger machines.

TL;DR:

Meetup: 5/15/2010
Location: Crossroads in Bellevue, near the Halfprice Books & Starbucks (NE 156th Ave & NE 10 St)
Time: 3:30-ish (I'll be there around then) till whenever (7ish?)
General info: We'll be working on our side projects, maybe side demos if you've got something cool to show people. For example, Josh showed us an interesting demo with GUI development + writing to files for GUI events.

Don't hesitate to email me or the EH email ([hidden email]). Website is http://eastsidehackers.org and twitter will have updates (http://twitter.com/eastsidehackers).

-Zac

PS: If anyone has suggestions for venues for future meetings, please email me. Crossroads isn't perfect but will accommodate us seating-wise. The big issue is enough seats + wifi + plugs.

[blath]

Nice. :) I'll try to make it this one. I'm glad after that it will be every other week, there's a CosPlay event in West Seattle at Lincoln Park on the 22nd that I think I'll try to attend. They'll be doing Pirates and I want to see if I can take some blurry & dark pics for that events. :D

For this one I plan to just bring paper (solar bendable display screens / they're nice but are pretty fragile when it comes to liquids) to maybe sketch out some page layouts, oddly just doing something like that always tends to get pushed behind for later but never seems to get done. So I'll be doodling whilst enjoying everyone's presence and conversations and that means more chances for power plug for someone else. If I'm sitting next to one, please let me know and I'll move and make room. :)

Klint aka blath. :)

[blath]

Hi guys,

Here are the pics from this meet. :) Under the skylight / window thing was a challenge to shoot against.  I think I should have taken Rama's picture by facing east or west. :)

http://blath.com/2010-05-15-ESH.html

Hope to see you guys next meet. I guess in June? :) Thanks guys, thanks Zac.
- Klint aka blath