See Post #2 for details on upcoming meet.
Well I'm proud to report that we had 16 rigs show up to the last San Jose meet on 3/16 at The Plant. There may have been more but I stopped counting at 16. Anyways, I think there's clearly enough participants and interest to warrant our own thread.
The Whens: The idea for the first few meets is to find a sweet spot that can net the most participants. To that end, the first meet was on a Friday, this next one will be a Saturday, we may do a Monday after that. Will it always stay that way? No. This is the Bay Area, not everybody works 9-5 M-F, this will give everybody a chance to come out for at least a couple of meets during the year no matter their schedule. Are we going to do this monthly, every other month, I don't know. If people continue to show up we'll do it monthly, scale it back as numbers drop off. I know in the warmer months people would rather be out and about on the weekends so we'll adjust accordingly.
The Wheres: This will not always be a San Jose-thing. As far as I'm concerned everything south of Palo Alto/Milpitas to Watsonville/Hollister is "South Bay" and fair game. And it can't always be me putting these things together, I just took it upon myself to organize these first few because I didn't see anything happening in the South Bay. If you want to do something in your neck of the woods, pick the date, scout the location, write something up so I can edit Post #2. To me the ideal meetup spot is an empty parking lot with food/drink options within walking distance. I personally want to eyeball people's rigs and shake hands, holding these things inside a brewery or restaurant sort of defeats the purpose and splits the group, and then you run the risk of trying to chat people up who don't have anything to do with the group... awkward.
Well I'm proud to report that we had 16 rigs show up to the last San Jose meet on 3/16 at The Plant. There may have been more but I stopped counting at 16. Anyways, I think there's clearly enough participants and interest to warrant our own thread.
The Whens: The idea for the first few meets is to find a sweet spot that can net the most participants. To that end, the first meet was on a Friday, this next one will be a Saturday, we may do a Monday after that. Will it always stay that way? No. This is the Bay Area, not everybody works 9-5 M-F, this will give everybody a chance to come out for at least a couple of meets during the year no matter their schedule. Are we going to do this monthly, every other month, I don't know. If people continue to show up we'll do it monthly, scale it back as numbers drop off. I know in the warmer months people would rather be out and about on the weekends so we'll adjust accordingly.
The Wheres: This will not always be a San Jose-thing. As far as I'm concerned everything south of Palo Alto/Milpitas to Watsonville/Hollister is "South Bay" and fair game. And it can't always be me putting these things together, I just took it upon myself to organize these first few because I didn't see anything happening in the South Bay. If you want to do something in your neck of the woods, pick the date, scout the location, write something up so I can edit Post #2. To me the ideal meetup spot is an empty parking lot with food/drink options within walking distance. I personally want to eyeball people's rigs and shake hands, holding these things inside a brewery or restaurant sort of defeats the purpose and splits the group, and then you run the risk of trying to chat people up who don't have anything to do with the group... awkward.
