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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Jim Bauwens on April 22, 2013, 02:17:47 pm
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This has been something on my mind for some time now, so I thought it would be best to organize a poll about it.
Would you be interested in joining a calculator event in Europe if it would be big enough? The calculator community is huge, and as far as I know there haven't been big meetups before. Having a large meeting will benefit the community and can be a very interesting experience.
This is a serious question, because I'm willing to organize something if I get enough positive responses. I don't have any big plans yes, just want to know your guys opinions :)
Cemetech thread: http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=203922#203922
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If it's in The Netherlands or just over the border in Germany or Belgium, yes.
France or further: nope :\
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If it's in The Netherlands or just over the border in Germany or Belgium, yes.
France or further: nope :\
same for me.
looks fun to me but what can i expect from it, i'm not a great programmer or mathematical genius :P (and i have exams soon)
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I think it should be located near the France/Belgium border or something. Or Netherlands/Belgium could do if the French members can go that far.
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I would love to do so, France, Netherlands or (with preference) Belgium, but it doesn't really matter.
Belgium seems like a nice meetup place though, it's kinda in the middle of The Netherlands and France, and Germany and others aren't that far away either :)
I guess/hope it won't be in the first month, because now time is getting critical (exams etc), but if it's be in the holidays or someday later, I would love to help organising stuff if needed.
looks fun to me but what can i expect from it, i'm not a great programmer or mathematical genius :P (and i have exams soon)
I guess an interest in calc stuff is more than enough to join, quite some people just have the interest, w/o further knowledge, so why hesitate :)
It maybe will make you want to learn programming, which would be very nice of course
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If it's in The Netherlands or just over the border in Germany or Belgium, yes.
France or further: nope :\
The border between The Netherlands and Belgium sounds reasonable to me. Then I might go if it's close to my home town and I can think of an excuse.
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Augh! Belgium? France? 's too far for me at the moment :/
Likely, the best I'd be able to do is something within a 250 km radius of Karlsruhe :P
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Belgium is a bit far for me, but maybe I could go on holiday somewhere around there and make the meeting part of it.
Southern Germany would be better for me, but Belgium seems nearest for most people here.
And it would have to be in the holidays or after them :)
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Count me in! If I can get there by train easily I am willing to travel down to the given location.
What will the meeting be like? Just hanging out together and sharing creations or also some activities such as gaming? We 'd need a room filled with televisions and game consoles for that or a bunch of laptops for that. Who is going to provide all that?
Does anyone even know how to set up an event like this?
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I'd love to but I'm far from being 18, so I can't travel :banghead:
But, if it's somewhere near Paris (which, according to what I read, is highly not) or Avignon (which is impossible) I'll work hard to be there.
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We 'd need a room filled with televisions and game consoles for that or a bunch of laptops for that. Who is going to provide all that?
>.> Ehum, that's pretty demanding.
My idea of a meeting would not really feature any games. Computer maybe.
Why waste time gaming while you can spend time talking about calculators? :D
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Exactly XD it's a calculator meeting, not a gaming meeting ^^
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It could be a calc gaming meeting, though. :P
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Yeah that's true :P but personally by "calc meeting", I understand discussion, programming-related talk, creations sharing, gaming.
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IF there would be such a meeting I'd put as little trouble as possible on the organizer. Meaning, taking your own devices preferably with you(calcs, linking cables, laptops, phones).
All the organizer should do is maybe take care of a place and an internet connection perhaps?
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Count me in! If I can get there by train easily I am willing to travel down to the given location.
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Yeah that's true :P but personally by "calc meeting", I understand discussion, programming-related talk, creations sharing, gaming.
Yep. Sounds all good to me, as long is things aren't too... formal, knowwaddamean? The event should basically be like a demo party or hackerspace event.
IF there would be such a meeting I'd put as little trouble as possible on the organizer. Meaning, taking your own devices preferably with you(calcs, linking cables, laptops, phones).
All the organizer should do is maybe take care of a place and an internet connection perhaps?
More or less, yeah. Make sure the place has enough sleeping places for those who want to hang out late night and/or can't afford a hotel.
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Can we have one for Americans? :(
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Can we have one for Americans? :(
If epic7 and I went to FRC championships, we'd have already met up :P
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Well I'm part of the "brolationship" now so if you ever go to an international piano competition, we're all soo meeting up. :/
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Well I'm part of the "brolationship" now so if you ever go to an international piano competition, we're all soo meeting up. :/
With whom? epic7? me? both? XD
Also: you accidentally double-posted
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How abotu near the german border :P
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Can we have one for Americans? :(
If epic7 and I went to FRC championships, we'd have already met up :P
I would have gone to championships.
Because of a failed ten point hang, nope.
So close :P
But I digress-
If we had it in the US, my mom wouldn't want to drive me more than a few miles to go to it, so it wont happen for me :P
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How abotu near the german border :P
Speaking of which, I still need to hunt you down when ya get back :3
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Can we have one for Americans? :(
If epic7 and I went to FRC championships, we'd have already met up :P
I would have gone to championships.
Because of a failed ten point hang, nope.
So close :P
But I digress-
If we had it in the US, my mom wouldn't want to drive me more than a few miles to go to it, so it wont happen for me :P
My parents wouldn't let me meet up with people I meet on the interwebs unless I was already going to be there anyways.
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Make sure the place has enough sleeping places for those who want to hang out late night and/or can't afford a hotel.
You make a good point here, I actually haven't thought about this. Will need to think about the possible solutions about this :)
As far the location, at the moment Belgium/France seems the best bet (for most members). But of course the expense of traveling is big problem. I understand that this is a big problem for most people.
But without traveling, there isn't really going to be a big meeting.
Maybe we could have meetings for different countries at the same time, have a big video conference together (project/display). That would be interesting too.
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This seems like a good solution, but this would decrease consequently the discussion aspect of the meeting.
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In many cases, I think an hotel might be needed, since a lot of people probably live in small apartments or houses like me (I only have 2 extra sleeping spots, for example, and my bro would probably only allow it if I'm in vacation), but then the meeting would have to be short-lived so that no one has to spend more than 1 expensive night at the hotel. Plus during Summer hotels are always full anyway.
There is always the solution of leaving home early in the morning to arrive at the conference during afternoon, then leave immediately before night, but that can be a bit exhausting for some people.
As for video conference I don't think it would be very popular, considering we already have one every Wednesday and Saturday.
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well if it isn't in the city i can bring my tent and find a piece of grass to putt it on.
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If anyone is willing to come to Australia for a meet up, I'm sure tr1p1ea and I would both be there ;)
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well if it isn't in the city i can bring my tent and find a piece of grass to putt it on.
Just putting a tent on a random place of grass is illegal in Belgium (And probably in the rest of the EU as well), but in gardens, it is allowed, so if anyone has a big enough garden, tents may be a solution.
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I think the main problem with a meetup is that most of us (i hope i am right) are still under 18 and their parents won't allow such stuff........
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YEah that's the main issue, and even above 18 if you live with your parents and they happen to be particularly protective this might be a bit hard.
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Assuming there would probably be 30-40 participants max, one could simply ask the local hackerspace (http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces) to host such an event.
I kinda like that tents-in-garden idea as well.