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Poll Question: Would you be interested in (that means *attend*) a Houston-area Meet-and-Greet? | Total Votes: | 42 | 1. Sure! | 30 | 71.43 % |
| 2. Nah. | 3 | 7.14 % |
| 3. I would like to, but I would have to work around some stuff. | 9 | 21.43 % |
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Johnny Mnemonic
Location: Houston, TX (Previously Dallas) Gender: Male Total Likes: 37 likes
I don't know, either.
| | | Houston Regular Meet-and-Greet < on 2/2/2015 1:04 AM >
| | | Howdy everybody, I just got back from a wonderful weekend of adventure with Astro, IndoAnomaly, Kville, Sunwulf, and Moonicorn (It was awesome to meet all of you that I didn't know already!). While we were out I suggested the idea that it might be nice to have a regular meet-and-greet, to let all of the explorers in the area both new and veteran, young and old, get together in a low-impact environment. I found out really quickly in Dallas that the regular meet-and-greet they have serves really well as a way to get to know other folks who are into UE, helps newer folks (like me at the time) get up to speed safely, and probably most interestingly for me serves as a sort of home-base for people to plan local stuff. I can assume that Astro would prefer not to have to plan the stuff in our area all the time, so I figured I'd take the initiative on this one. So before I make this post super long for no reason, and before I get all psyched about the idea, I figured I'd run a poll to see how many people would be interested in such a thing. If there is enough interest we can work out dates, how often it might meet, etc. I'm thinking we might follow the DFW model, where the group meets at a restaurant or something similar once a month or once every other month. So, what do you guys say? Wanna make this a thing?
(ETA: I went ahead and voted yes, just to figure out this poll thing. Plus, surprisingly, I will indeed be going.)
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| Johnny Mnemonic
Location: Houston, TX (Previously Dallas) Gender: Male Total Likes: 37 likes
I don't know, either.
| | | Re: Houston Regular Meet-and-Greet < Reply # 8 on 2/8/2015 4:25 PM >
| | | Wow, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that would be interested in seeing this happen. Looks like we have a reasonable number of yes votes, so I guess it's time to get this thing moving. Now, the last thing I'll ask before we get the event made is what would be the easiest way to set this up for you guys. My initial idea (when I talked to A through Z about it forever ago, only now have I gotten up the energy to just do it) was basically to copy the DFW setup, where they meet once a month or once every other month at a restaurant, then if anyone at the meeting wants to explore a location or whatever, they can get that organized there. It worked really well, and I was able to see a lot of neat locations because of those meetings. I'm going to go ahead and suggest the last Friday of every month starting sometime between six and eight, just to give us something to discuss. So let me know whether or not you are for that idea, any suggestions or things you might need to work around (within reason). Thanks for all the input, I'll try and answer individual stuff soon, but right now I gotta run! TL;DR: Let me know if you're up for the last Friday of every month at about seven or so at restaurants, and if not what you think would work better.
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| Rinzler
Location: New Jersey Gender: Neither Total Likes: 860 likes
Nomad
| | | | Re: Houston Regular Meet-and-Greet < Reply # 9 on 2/8/2015 10:21 PM >
| | | I guess ill put in some input on this. Weekend mornings are usually your best bet. Ive hosted and attended many meetups that either were an all weekend thing, or met up first thing in the morning. Whenever ive attended any meetups when living in the northeast years and years ago when they actually happened, they happened Sat or Sun morning at like 10 at IHOP,Dennys, etc. If you host something at 7pm at a restaurant, it doesnt leave much time for exploring after if people do decide to go. If you take pictures, ideally, night time isnt your best option, which is why meeting at 7pm wouldnt make much sense, unless its just for dinner. Unless the place you are trying to get into has too much activity during the day and you have to go at night. Now if you met up at say 9am on a Saturday or Sunday, that leaves most of the day with plenty to do. Also, Sundays are more of your quieter days since a lot of places are closed.
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| Johnny Mnemonic
Location: Houston, TX (Previously Dallas) Gender: Male Total Likes: 37 likes
I don't know, either.
| | | Re: Houston Regular Meet-and-Greet < Reply # 18 on 2/10/2015 11:57 PM >
| | | Yeah, Tiffers, the idea at the moment is to have a monthly low-intensity get-together to kind of build the local community and get to know each other. In this case by eating pizza (or other foods. I don't judge). And there'll be more than pizza, I think there's a bar there, too, but I wouldn't count on an impressive selection. As far as I can tell, they won't ask for IDs unless somebody wants a beer or something, so there's a little something for everybody. Again, this is all default stuff, if anyone thinks there is a better option out there we can discuss that, too. In any case, when I post the event I'll for sure put down addresses, times, and dates either in this thread or on the event. Or both.
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