This is a variant of this post.
Per previous announcement (ObWi version):
The ObWi Bay Area Bloggers & Bullsh*t League of Earth = ObBABBLE's second meeting is hereby announced.
WHO: This is an open gathering; anyone reading this is invited. In actuality, the main connector is that I can get you to read this. You are invited. You.
You may know me from: blogs. Science fiction fandom. Publishing. My writing. Anywhere. You are invited.
You may be a reader of blogs, and that's all. You are invited.
You may be a member of the Bay Area science fiction community, or want to be. You are invited.
You may simply be interested in political discussion, or talk about sf, or tech, or gadgets, or anything smart. You simply may enjoy meeting people who may be congenial and interesting. You are invited.
If you read this: you are invited. You are encouraged to pass this along to anyone you think interested, and to repost this information as you like; letting me know, though, would be nice.
WHERE: Crepevine. Specifically.
5600 College Avenue, Oakland, CA
5600 College Ave, Oakland,
CA 94618
Ph: (510) 658-2026
WHEN: Saturday, January 15th, 2010, 1 p.m. until we're done.
PURPOSE: Socializing, meeting each other, fun. Flame wars dampened with beverages and cheer.
QUESTIONS: put comments on this thread at Amygdala or Obsidian Wings, or Facebook; if necessary, email gary underscore farber at yahoo dot com.
Name of group still likely to change, as is everything else.
Frequency to start will be monthly, but subject to further detail and change of location/time; possibilities of every other weekend subgroups may occur, or may not.
Further notices are intended to be issued at least monthly, at least one week before the next meeting, preferably two weeks. (Ha! I have a rich fantasy life.)
This is an open gathering: you are encouraged to bring interesting people who might be interested.
Feel free to copy and repost this message, but if you do so, it's helpful to say so in public comments, or email gary underscore farber at yahoo dot com, so I'll have some idea how many more people might show up.
R.S.V.P encouraged, but not required.
Gary Farber: Irresponsible Party.
Co-instigators: Jacob Davies, RAL.
Pass it on.
The first meeting had 9 people, including myself, and one person seen only by me. This means 7 people not me. This is not a huge and overwhelming gathering. This second meeting may be smaller, now that people have met me. We might have only me and two others. We may have more. Come and find out along with me. Don't be intimidated. But it's all up to you. No obligation whatever, obviously.
You can also respond on Facebook.
This message expires as obsolete no later than Saturday, January 15th, 2010, 1 p.m. PST.
ADDENDUM,, 01.13.11, 3:28 p.m.: Well, fuck, it turns out there's also this.
I'm sorry, but if I get only two days warning, I'm not omniscient, and I can't go back in time, and oh well.
If you'll be attending, this will be helpful to give me an answer to in email or anywhere in writing, including here, wherever.
ReplyDeleteI'd also like to put together an email mailing list for those who wish to be on it.
And I don't expect anyone to do this, but if anyone has a name tag, I won't rip it off your shirt, or order you to leave. :-)
I have lots of pictures from the previous time; and everyone's name. And I have access to most people's email addresses in scattered places.
What I've lacked is time to put those together, but mostly time to sort the photos, kill the bad ones, pick the good ones, assemble the email addresses, ask everyone in one email what sizes or formats they'd like them in, whether the current 1-2 megs a piece works, or prefer zipped mass, or thumbnails, or etc.
Reducing the photos is, again, a small job, but I have an endless number of small jobs and much larger, so any feedback I can cut and paste and stick in a file for later use is... useful.
Only if anyone is interested, of course. I can look at the pictures all I want. :-)
Oh, and restating the following in writing would help. Apologies, see previous sentence. :-)
New boilerplate:
All photos I take stay private to me without written permission to you.
I won't take pictures of you at all, if avoidable, if I'm aware you'd prefer I not.
Do you prefer/allow?:
1) no pictures taken.
2) pictures stay me-only?
3) pictures also to you? (My preference, but need info
on delivery preferences.)
4) pictures may be posted to Facebook my Friends only?
5) pictures may be posted to FB Friends of Friends?
6) pictures posted on the web allowed?
7) Other.
:-)
Boilerplate on delivery possibilities to come eventually.
So far I haven't found a moment to do anything about pictures from last month, besides glance and slightly organize, but for future reference, hopes, and dreams. :-)