SSC Meetups 2018: Times And Places

96 Responses to SSC Meetups 2018: Times And Places

1. entobat says:

   August 9, 2018 at 12:48 am

   Soixante-quinze is French for 75. I imagine the phone number is written as-is for similar reasons to emails being listed as “person[at]site”.

   +33 is the international code for France; callers with international phones should dial the 11 digits given in the main post. Callers from within France should drop the +33 from the beginning but prepend a 0 (so it starts 06.soixante-quinze), and also learn how their phone system works well enough that they don’t need an American to explain it to them. My sources inform me that the 11-digit numbers work domestically as well.

   (French phone numbers are 10 digits long and are always written as “xx.xx.xx.xx.xx”. This seems worse than the American system to me from a memorability standpoint, but maybe they say the same thing about ours.)
   • Jules says:

     August 9, 2018 at 1:29 am

     The soixante-quinze was indeed my equivalent to [at] so that random robots don’t scrape my phone number off the internet to send more spam…

     Using the international version of a phone number also works from within the country. In my experience, numbers displayed as caller ID are automatically in this format.

     We pronounce our phone numbers as a series of two-digit numbers (“thirty-four” rather than “three four”), and three-digit numbers would generally be longer to pronounce.
     Compared to digit by digit, it makes for more complex, but less elements to remember, but also gives more room for mishearing.
     I don’t think the difference is massive, but I think I’ll give you this one.
     • entobat says:

       August 9, 2018 at 1:36 am

       Thanks for the formatting explanation; despite having called a number of French phone numbers I think I have somehow avoided ever hearing one spoken aloud. Though I’m not sure I buy the “it takes less time to say this way” argument when one of your two-digit numbers is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf 🙂 .

       Keep in mind we do say the numbers digit by digit, but conceptually tend to remember them as xxx-xxx-xxxx. I can certainly tell you the 4th through 6th digits of my phone number (the middle bunch) much more quickly than, say, the 5th through 7th.
       • Jules says:

         August 9, 2018 at 2:02 am

         I was comparing two-digit numbers to three-digit rather than series of one digit.
         You wouldn’t believe how fast we can pronounce quatre-vingt-dix, though 😉
         • entobat says:

           August 9, 2018 at 2:09 am

           Believe me, my travels have familiarized (and dismayed) me with how quickly French people speak 🙂 .
         • TenthKrige says:

           August 9, 2018 at 5:25 am

           I wonder how much that’s quick pronunciation vs. not noticing the syllables because we expect them to be there.
         • The Pachyderminator says:

           August 9, 2018 at 10:10 am

           Most travelers find that all languages other than their own are spoken incredibly fast. The possible exception is Entish.
     • TenthKrige says:

       August 9, 2018 at 1:40 am

       I’d never heard the “3-digit numbers are longer to pronounce” argument. I still think 3-digit numbers are easier to keep in short-term memory, at least.

       And your meetup is yet another cool thing happening in Paris that makes me almost want to move to Paris. Presque =] .
       • Jules says:

         August 9, 2018 at 1:59 am

         I think that two 3 digit numbers are usually longer to pronounce than three digit numbers, because you have to add “cent” for “hundred”, but I could be wrong.

         Do come to Paris, you’ll have a harder time remembering the phone numbers but we have the metric system 😉
         • TenthKrige says:

           August 9, 2018 at 5:21 am

           Ah, sorry I was too cryptic : I’m french and I live in Lille. I could take the train, it’s only one hour. Plus I have friends to see in Paris.

           I’ll think about it !
         • Jules says:

           August 9, 2018 at 6:33 am

           please do come 🙂

           And I do apologise, I was the one who wrongly assumed you were American
2. tmk says:

   August 9, 2018 at 1:16 am

   What are people generally like at SSC meetups? This comment section, and especially the subreddit is known for certain political leanings. I intuit the meetups are very different, but I cannot quite explain why.
   • Jules says:

     August 9, 2018 at 1:33 am

     I think that previous SSC surveys have shown that those leanings are not that prevalent, they just stand out because we’re not used to seeing them, especially to seeing them being engaged with instead of being immediately rebuked as abhorrent.
     • tmk says:

       August 9, 2018 at 2:02 am

       The subreddit is like 95% Culture War.
       • Jules says:

         August 9, 2018 at 2:03 am

         I was only speaking for what I’ve seen of the comments here…
   • ashlael says:

     August 9, 2018 at 1:58 am

     Last time for me (Canberra) the group was politically pretty far-left with myself as a distinct outlier on the right. Everyone was really nice and friendly though, I didn’t feel uncomfortable at all. The political discussion was vastly more respectful than what I’ve experienced online, even compared to here.

     Canberra is one of the most left-wing areas in Australia though, so I don’t expect my experience to be fully representative in that respect.
   • The Pachyderminator says:

     August 9, 2018 at 10:42 am

     I don’t think anyone should be discouraged from attending for this reason, but trouble of this kind is possible. At the only SSC meetup I’ve been to with a sizeable group of attendees, someone spoke at length in defense of Richard Spenser – and this in the middle of a crowded coffee shop in a hipsterish part of town. The experience was sufficiently unpleasant that I now approach SSC meetups cautiously, even though someone else who was there later became a good friend.
   • rlms says:

     August 9, 2018 at 2:27 pm

     The political leanings at my meetups in the UK were not much like those of the comment section, and not at all like the subreddit (if my understanding of it as largely nu-right/libertarian is correct). Most people were Lib Dem ish (the UK’s left-liberal party) but also especially thoughtful and openminded. Unlike the comments section (and as you would probably expect from a SSC readers meetup) they were not at all confrontational; we had polite discussions rather than anything approaching arguments.
   • b_jonas says:

     August 11, 2018 at 3:04 am

     On the two SSC meetups in Budapest, we had around ten people and most of them were IT geeks. There is certainly some clustering in politics, as is typical in university-educated middle class people. We did talk about politics a bit during the meeting, but it wasn’t too annoying, even I could stand it and I hate to talk about politics these days.
3. iamnoah says:

   August 9, 2018 at 1:22 am

   Wellington’s location is inconsistent.

   See https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/26/meetups-everywhere-2018/#comment-652482

   And

   https://www.lesswrong.com/events/GqihPsKvnwJNcphFp/wellington-ssc-meetup

   Fortunately just a block apart. I’ll be there so I’ll volunteer to be the contact: 021 885 180

   and we’ll check The Library for stragglers before things get going.
4. melling says:

   August 9, 2018 at 2:06 am

   @SCOTT

   We changed the location of the Wellington (NZ) meetup to Enigma, in response to a request from OutsideContextProblem, but the main post mentions the old location of The Library. Could you edit the main post, please?

   See: the thread at https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/26/meetups-everywhere-2018/#comment-652490
5. Lee Wang says:

   August 9, 2018 at 2:26 am

   @Scott Alexander

   I have been notified by the organizer in Amsterdam to add the following data:

   1. For the location it should be: On the grass in front of Weesperzijde 100

   Weesperzijde is a street.

   2. Organizer email: mathijs[dot]henquet[at]gmail[dot]com
   • Lee Wang says:

     August 9, 2018 at 3:57 am

     @SCOTT

     We also have a facebook event now https://www.facebook.com/events/515309278897784/ which is better than the meetup link or facebook group. Also could you maybe obfuscate the email address in the above post, I cant edit it now.
     • Majuscule says:

       August 9, 2018 at 10:30 am

       I set up a Meetup.com page for SSC Amsterdam a while ago. If you want to take it over, contact me and we can work on that- I’m dmcbriggs at gmail. You might also talk to a guy named Martin, who you might know. He was the last contact for our old Amsterdam group, to see if he’s still running the regular gathering we had going until this spring. I can put you in touch with him as well.
6. 4thwaywastrel says:

   August 9, 2018 at 3:02 am

   Brisbane meetup time is 7pm 🙂
7. vaaal888 says:

   August 9, 2018 at 3:46 am

   Looking forward to participate in the Bristol one! 😀
8. Charles F says:

   August 9, 2018 at 4:41 am

   @Scott
   For the madison meetup, there is a facebook event here. Could you add that to the “contact” section? Thanks.
9. Amakthel says:

   August 9, 2018 at 5:02 am

   @Scott
   Anyone who is interested in coming to the Ann Arbor one can call me at 7343520125
10. Andrew Farrell says:

    August 9, 2018 at 5:09 am

    > If you have a vague location like “in the mall” or “at the North Park”, nobody will ever find each other. Give a specific place (eg “at the North Park, by the big oak tree in the northwest corner”) and be carrying a sign saying “SSC MEETUP”. If you were too vague in your description, comment with a better one and I can edit it in.

    My priorities when composing a description of a place to meet are:

    0) Access is not blocked by a “closed for business” sign, painfully loud noise, or ongoing acts of violence at the time of meetup. (I’d add offensive smells to this list, but I’m hard-of-smelling and sometimes forget about that one.)

    1) Precisely-described enough that for any given point that reasonably matches a description of the location, you have line-of-sight to any other point that reasonably matches a description of the location.

    2) Not in a concrete bunker, British grocery store, or other structure that blocks cell phone signal.

    3) Near some sort of large legible sign or other highly-visible and describable object or mural.

    4) Within line-of-sight and 90 seconds walk of a place to sit down.

    5) Accessible to someone rolling a heavy thing such as luggage or a body without having to lift the thing over steps.

    6) Within 7 minutes walk of a publicly-accessible toilet.

    7) Not so crowded by people as to make it really difficult to spot a particular person trying to get your attention.

    8) Within 12 minutes walk of a place to quickly acquire mediocre food.

    The priorities of this list change depending on:

    – Possible disabilities and encumberances of the person[s] I’m meeting with.

    – The tendency to be late of the person[s] I’m meeting with.

    – The consequences of being late. For instance, when catching a flight, my rule is “If we dont meet by X time, we’ll meet on the plane.”

    – The thing we are doing.

    – The known competence at communicating about logistics of the person[s] I’m meeting with.
11. robirahman says:

    August 9, 2018 at 5:15 am

    Contact address for the DC meetup: robirahman94@gmail.com
12. liskantope says:

    August 9, 2018 at 5:48 am

    I almost didn’t even bother to check this list of meetups, since I live in Italy and it seems that the rationalist community in this country is pretty feeble.

    But I wound up skimming this list anyway, and… I noticed there’s an event in Edinburgh this Sunday, and despite having never so much as set foot in Scotland before, I happen to be in Edinburgh this Sunday. Of course the people I’m staying with may have other plans, so I can’t promise I can come, but I’m fairly optimistic. Who else is coming? Roughly how many are expected to be there?
13. mercutio says:

    August 9, 2018 at 6:00 am

    Hmm. Are you being intentionally obscure by specifying a Berkeley location which Google Maps doesn’t find unless you add “circle” to the name of the street?

    If so, I guess I’ve ruined it… If not, perhaps add “circle” to your description.
14. SteveReilly says:

    August 9, 2018 at 6:18 am

    @SCOTT I’m the Charleston guy. Contact info is reilly dot steven at gmail dot com.
    • SteveReilly says:

      August 10, 2018 at 5:08 pm

      @scott and @ anyone coming to the Charleston meetup. I’ll be seated somewhere near the Holocaust memorial in the southeast corner of the park. I’m not sure if I’ll be there alone or if my wife is coming. But feel free to email me anytime between now and then if you’re worried about not finding me.
15. Pratfins says:

    August 9, 2018 at 8:00 am

    A mistake was made. The meeting for St. Louis was changed to:

    The Coffee Cartel
    2 Maryland Plaza

    I had e-mailed Claire, and she sent me a confirmation that it was changed on her end, but I guess you had a separate list? My apologies.
    • mingyuan says:

      August 9, 2018 at 1:51 pm

      It’s fixed again! Sorry about that 🙂
16. VivaLaPanda says:

    August 9, 2018 at 9:06 am

    @SCOTT

    I’m hosting the Santa Rosa meetup. Can you add the following contact info:
    email at adrian@smithdev.io
    or via Discord at VivaLaPanda#6386
17. Jim Hays says:

    August 9, 2018 at 9:23 am

    @SCOTT

    I am offering to host a meetup for Columbus Ohio.

    Time: 3pm Saturday, September 8th
    Location: Private Residence
    397 Eldridge Ave
    Columbus, OH, 43203
    Contact: james.thomas.hays [at] gmail.com
    • mingyuan says:

      August 9, 2018 at 1:52 pm

      Awesome, I’ve added it!
18. gbdub says:

    August 9, 2018 at 9:44 am

    Late to the party, but as far as tips for making these things more approachable / accessible, could I add “Don’t hold it at a private residence” (unless you’re a large well established group)?

    I had lukewarm interest in going to the Phoenix meetup but the fact that a) it sounds like the likely attendance is small b) it’s at a private home in a residential neighborhood a significant drive from my house and c) the only contact info is the organizer’s private phone number kind of pushed me into the “definite no” bucket.

    No offense intended, and of course gratitude to Wong for organizing and offering (presumably) their home to guests, it’s just particularly intimidating to show up at a random stranger’s house to meet a small group of other complete strangers, vs. meeting somewhere public. Plus having to text/call someone is stressful. I recognize this is a personal failing on my part, but I suspect it is not a unique one among this crowd.
    • Jules says:

      August 9, 2018 at 11:58 pm

      What other form of contact would you find better?
      I gave my phone number for Paris, because I consider texts a rather easy form of communication
      • gbdub says:

        August 10, 2018 at 11:02 am

        Facebook group (private if you want) or email. Phone number (even for text) just always felt more private/personal/intrusive and anxiety inducing. I prefer email or Facebook because I can take my time composing a message, and whoever I’m messaging can reply at their leisure.
      • rlms says:

        August 10, 2018 at 1:29 pm

        I think email is the best form in the Anglosphere at least.
    • wong says:

      August 10, 2018 at 11:00 am

      Hey, imagine how intimidating it is for a bunch of strangers to show up at THE ACTUAL PLACE THAT YOU LIVE.

      Still, it’s a risk I’m willing to take in exchange for meeting like-minded-folks so rarely encountered in the general population – and Scott’s maximally-encouraging psychiatrist-tone makes me feel that it will all be okay.

      And it probably will! And you should definitely come! I’m sorry I live so far away.
      • gbdub says:

        August 10, 2018 at 11:11 am

        No you live pretty central for Phoenix, it’s a good location, just that I don’t. And like I said, I appreciate the offer of hosting. Just pointing out it’s a bit intimidating for attendees is all (more so for you – but everybody has their comfort level they’re willing to overcome). I was lukewarm mostly because the weekend isn’t a great one for me. I’ll make it out one of these times.
19. Cliff says:

    August 9, 2018 at 10:06 am

    I thought someone offered to host a meet-up in Richmond VA?
    • mingyuan says:

      August 9, 2018 at 1:59 pm

      Unfortunately that person followed up saying that they weren’t volunteering to host anything specific; it was just a vague offer. But if you’re in Richmond and would like to host a meetup I’d be happy to add it to the list!
20. ganmane says:

    August 9, 2018 at 10:20 am

    @SCOTT @Scott: I have better info for the Portland, Oregon (PDX) meetup, as I am on the mailing list.

    There is a meetup scheduled for this Saturday, August 11th, at 12:30 pm. It it is held at a private residence. The address is here:

    3246 NE 57th Ave (cross street is Klickitat)

    You are encouraged, though not required, to RSVP the organizer:

    nwalton125 AT gmail DOT com
21. Said Achmiz says:

    August 9, 2018 at 1:25 pm

    Re: the NYC meetup:

    I tried to look at the official map of Brookfield Place, but their website seems to be horribly broken, and I can’t load it in any browser. So, here is a map someone else made:

    https://fashionunfiltered-images.s3.amazonaws.com/production/uploads/article_medium/medium/19510/_embed.jpg

    You can see Black Seed Bagel near the top left of the map, 2nd level.
    • BBA says:

      August 11, 2018 at 10:26 am

      Sadly, I will be unable to make it, as I have other business to attend to on a Saturday in August.
22. jooyous says:

    August 9, 2018 at 3:20 pm

    @SCOTT Sacramento meetup would like to announce that we’re meeting at

    1627 16th St, Sacramento, CA 95814

    on Sunday, August 12 at 5pm with contact amethyst.eggplant@gmail.com. We’re on the LW page also.
23. a_lieb says:

    August 9, 2018 at 3:40 pm

    @SCOTT

    I’m the organizer for the Northampton one. Sorry about the lack of contact info the first time. Name’s Alex; email is alex@alexliebowitz.com
24. bassicallyboss says:

    August 9, 2018 at 5:21 pm

    The meetup page listed for Boulder, Colorado does not have an event page for the SSC meetup, and probably will not have one by the time of the event (though I’ll ask the page admin about getting one made).
25. MawBTS says:

    August 9, 2018 at 6:21 pm

    4. If it’s the first meetup, people are probably just going to want to talk, and if you try to organize some kind of “fun” “event” it’ll probably just be annoying.

    Thank you. Jesus.
26. a_lieb says:

    August 9, 2018 at 8:06 pm

    Northampton, MA organizer here. For those who missed it, I changed both the location and date toward the end of the last thread—the location because The Foundry cafe suddenly closed last week, and the date because it seems like this one might work better with people’s schedules.

    I have an email RSVP from 2 UMass students. We had one firm RSVP for the original date (SamChevre) and one person who was very interested but said that the date probably wouldn’t work for them (grey_ghost). I don’t have contact info for either of them, so hopefully they catch this. If we get those two on board, we’d be up to 5 people already!

    An email thread is starting to happen, so if you email alex@alexliebowitz.com, I will add you on.
27. Jiri Nadvornik says:

    August 9, 2018 at 11:55 pm

    @SCOTT
    There is a typo in the description of Prague meetup:
    Wrong: Dharamsala
    Correct: Dharmasala
    And can you please add link to our FB event? https://www.facebook.com/events/436296133526831/
    Thanks
28. ASparklingViking says:

    August 10, 2018 at 1:52 am

    Great to see the Manchester and Birmingham (UK) meetups on different dates, gives me a good chance of making one of them!
29. A Definite Beta Guy says:

    August 10, 2018 at 5:51 am

    8. Surprisingly many people will love you forever if you bring stim toys.

    ????

    This seems like the kind of thing not to Google at work.
    • Ozy Frantz says:

      August 10, 2018 at 9:29 am

      Stim toys (also known as fidget toys) are small items with which you can do soothing, repetitive hand movements. You might have heard of fidget spinners; those are a stim toy. You can look at some other stim toys here. While stim toys are associated with autistic people, they’re also popular among people with ADHD, anxious people, and many neurotypicals.
30. ksteel says:

    August 10, 2018 at 7:53 am

    Imagine my surprise reading in my office in Tübingen that there is a meetup just a few hundred meters away. Our little town has to be by far the smallest place on the list (seriously, barely 90k people).

    Unfortunately I cannot attend this evening but I wish everyone there a lot of fun.
    • a_lieb says:

      August 10, 2018 at 12:03 pm

      Northampton, MA has 30k people and 3–5 people on board already! Seems like this may be more doable in low-population areas than it appears.

      (Northampton is a college town with other small towns nearby and close to a larger metro, but that also describes Tübingen.)
31. askwho says:

    August 10, 2018 at 8:02 am

    Birmingham meetup facebook event.

    For any questions contact: askew.thomas@gmail.com
    • askwho says:

      August 10, 2018 at 9:19 pm

      Hmm, link looks broken, Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/530719854049151/?ti=cl
32. macedonia says:

    August 10, 2018 at 8:54 am

    @SCOTT

    I created the following facebook group for Houston, which I’m organizing:

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816070091838828/
    • Corundum says:

      August 10, 2018 at 12:13 pm

      Thanks from a fellow Houstonian! Looking forward to the meet up!
33. loriphos says:

    August 10, 2018 at 10:35 am

    @SCOTT

    A couple of changes for the Boston meetup:
    1) Because of the rain, we are moving the meetup to the Starbucks at 66 Beacon street.
    2) We also changed organizers (the person who was originally going to do it had something come up). The new contact is ardeibel [at] gmail.com
34. oh_moses says:

    August 10, 2018 at 12:20 pm

    @SCOTT

    contact for the Vienna, Austria meetup: moses.skoda[at]gmail.com
    • b_jonas says:

      August 11, 2018 at 5:23 am

      I’ll go to the Wien meeting from Budapest. If you’re also coming from Budapest or its general direction, you may contact me at ambrus@@mmaatthh..bbmmee..hhuu (remove one of each duplicated character) to organize to meet on the train. I’ll also stay in Wien for the next day and spend it in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
      • b_jonas says:

        August 20, 2018 at 6:14 am

        The meeting was great, thank you everyone for coming. The museum was also great.
35. mupetblast says:

    August 10, 2018 at 12:44 pm

    Promoting here because it doesn’t conflict with SSC meetups in the bay, but there’s a Quillette reader meetup this Sunday August 12th in San Francisco. Details here: https://imgur.com/a/gJlkGre (FB page isn’t public.)
    • Scott Alexander says:

      August 10, 2018 at 7:48 pm

      I don’t have an Open Thread to post this in before it happens, but if you give me more advance notice on this next time and confirm it’s okay to advertise publicly, I will.
      • mupetblast says:

        August 13, 2018 at 11:18 am

        I appreciate that! Will do.
    • Fingerspitzengefuehl says:

      August 15, 2018 at 10:53 am

      Is there a Chicagoland Quillette group?
36. Optimization Process says:

    August 10, 2018 at 6:55 pm

    @SCOTT — Sorry, could I trouble you to change the Seattle Facebook event link to https://www.facebook.com/events/1803392936413170 ? I messed up the permissions, preventing non-Seattle-Rationality-Facebook-group-members from RSVPing or posting.

    Thanks so much! You are good.
    • mingyuan says:

      August 10, 2018 at 10:41 pm

      Fixed!
37. Alex Zavoluk says:

    August 10, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    Just posting to confirm that the Austin LW email list is active and sending an e-mail to it will get you a response.

    edit: but I can post my personal contact info here if people would like.
38. Alexander Lyzhov says:

    August 11, 2018 at 5:55 am

    @SCOTT

    I’m Alex and I’m organizing a meetup in Moscow, Russia at 4PM local time on 25th of August (Saturday).
    The venue is Kocherga rationality time-club at Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya, 5 building 2 (https://kocherga-club.ru/#contacts for directions)
    Contact: nikkou.postbox@gmail.com
39. Rm says:

    August 11, 2018 at 8:40 am

    We did it! And one of us drew Scott’s imagined portrait! Which, assumedly, cannot be mistaken for himself!

    Wish you luck, other people!
40. mp says:

    August 11, 2018 at 4:56 pm

    Did the Vancouver one happen? I only noticed this post and the date for the meetup this morning, tried emailing but didn’t get a response. Showed up anyway, wandered around the large covered area near the library entrance then went inside and waited. Thought maybe I was somehow missing another entrance and circled around the building. Went back around to what was definitely the main entrance and eventually left.
41. jaimeastorga2000 says:

    August 11, 2018 at 5:11 pm

    Just came back from the Miami meetup. It was very nice. There were five guys total and we met and talked about a bunch of rationalist topics (ems, AI, existential risk, cryonics, EA, life extension, etc…) for two hours. And all I had to spend was $4 on the parking garage!
42. finlay says:

    August 12, 2018 at 3:29 am

    I didn’t post in the organising post partly because I’ve been away and partly because I don’t expect to get enough people for a proper meetup, but if anybody in Nottingham, UK, fancies meeting, feel free to get in touch. My email address is finlayfoodle [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk.
43. trustacean says:

    August 12, 2018 at 6:24 am

    @SCOTT

    The contact for Helsinki is sschelsinkimeetup@gmail.com
    https://sschkimeetup.wordpress.com
44. DavidFriedman says:

    August 12, 2018 at 11:02 am

    @SCOTT:
    San Jose, CA. We are having another meetup on September 1. 3806 Williams Road, San Jose 95117, starting at 2:00 P.M. Details.
45. yossarian says:

    August 12, 2018 at 12:38 pm

    Anyone SSC’ing in Hamburg? I’ve seen a few German locations, but I can’t make it there.
46. Steven E. Landsburg says:

    August 12, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    Thanks for making this happen.

    The Rochester meetup is scheduled for the non-existent Saturday, August 26. Presumably this means either Saturday, August 25 or Sunday, August 26. It would be good to know which. Unfortunately, the organizer has not responded to my email requests for clarification. Can you somehow help?
    • mingyuan says:

      August 12, 2018 at 8:07 pm

      It’s Sunday, my bad!
47. matt_512 says:

    August 12, 2018 at 8:54 pm

    @SCOTT I doubt anyone would come in such a small city, however:

    Iowa City, IA
    Time: Early September
    Location: TBD
    Contact: reddit.com/u/matt_512 OR reply to this comment

    If anyone is interested, I’m sure we can figure something out!
48. strangepoop says:

    August 13, 2018 at 7:26 am

    @SCOTT

    Chennai, India
    Tentative time and venue: 11 AM Sunday August 26th, Pumpkin Tales, Alwarpet
    (vegan friendly!)
    Contact: fufstsahil at gmail dot com

    I don’t know the city very well yet, so email me if you’d like to suggest another place.
49. Ryan Khurana says:

    August 13, 2018 at 12:53 pm

    Wanted to provide contact info for Toronto, Canada’s Meetup. My number is (647) 562-7358. Sorry for not providing earlier. Thanks, Ryan.
50. A1987dM says:

    August 14, 2018 at 4:56 am

    The Brussels meetup is on the list but not on the map.
51. StefanDeYoung says:

    August 15, 2018 at 8:37 am

    Ottawa

    The meetup on Friday, August 10th was a great success with double our usual attendance (12 vs 6). Staff at the cafe asked us to book the room in the future if we anticipated attendance greater than 6.

    There are additional meetups on August 15th and August 24th. The August 15th meetup will be 6pm at the Art House Cafe, 555 Somerset Street West. The August 24th meetup may be moved to a private residence to avoid having to book space.

    Please see the facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1756221964428105/) or contact me (stefandeyoung@gmail.com) to keep abreast of future events.

    @MichaelBishop: A bunch of us showed up to Sconewitch yesterday and missed you. Contact me, so we can meet up at future SSC/LW events!
    • StefanDeYoung says:

      August 15, 2018 at 8:37 am

      I have not booked the room for the August 15th meetup. If we have to move, we will move at 7pm. We will move either to Dundonald Park or to The Pour Boy. We will post on the facebook group if we do, and you can contact me via email to request updates.
52. MathiasBonde says:

    August 15, 2018 at 9:19 am

    The Copenhagen event will be on the 28th of September at 5:00 pm in the churchwing of studenterhuset:
    – Købmagergade 52, 1150 Copenhagen

    I’ve created a facebook event, by pressing attend you will make it easier for me to gauge just how many snacks I should buy 🙂

    https://www.facebook.com/events/663552214029994

    contact email: mathias@bonde.dk
    contact phone: +45 93 93 42 43
53. Jorge says:

    August 19, 2018 at 6:40 am

    Unless someone contacts me by tomorrow (Monday 20 Aug) Escazú, Costa Rica is canceled. So far only 1 person has contacted me and they will be out of the country on the 25th.
    • Jorge says:

      August 19, 2018 at 6:43 am

      @SCOTT

      sorry, should have included that before:

      Unless someone contacts me by tomorrow (Monday 20 Aug) Escazú, Costa Rica is canceled. So far only 1 person has contacted me and they will be out of the country on the 25th.
54. stronico says:

    August 25, 2018 at 2:42 pm

    @Scott
    Atlanta Georgia USA
    Time: Saturday Sept 29th, 2018 at 2:00 PM
    Location: Hodgepodge Coffee House, 720 Moreland AVE SE, Atlanta GA 30316
    Contact: steve(at)digitaltoolfactory.net