Maemo community in San Francisco Bay Area
 

Hi, I have been thinking about starting a MeeGo monthly meeting of sorts in San Francisco Bay Area. Maemo community members are of course welcome too! Who is interested?

See the thread @ MeeGo forum.

Re: Maemo community in San Francisco Bay Area
 

I'd probably make it to some of these if they happen.

Re: Maemo community in San Francisco Bay Area
 

Faultline Brewing Company?

http://www.faultlinebrewing.com/
1235 Oakmead Parkway
Sunnyvale, CA 94085-4040
(408) 736-2739

Last IEEE meeting there was not bad.

EDIT: But it has sense to do it in September, after vacation time...

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I was thinking of using http://meetup.com to organize a first meetup. Now there is people interested here, in the MeeGo forum and Twitter.

We can start faster aiming to be just a few or prepare a bit more of program and campaign to be a bit more people. What would you prefer?

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I'm interested

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I can share some experience from our mobile freidae event here in Berlin/Germany.
First it started as a simple user meeting at a lounge/bar.
I've had advertised it on Twitter, t.m.o and my blog.
We were about 10 people, mostly developers.
The next time we made it at the c-base (known from the first maemo summit).
That ws the right decision because nearly everyone at the c-base uses a N900.
Today in one week we will have the next mobile freidae (the second time under the mobile freidae name and the fourth maemo event in Berlin by us).
We will have talks about MeeGo, programs and so on.
Even the guys from Qt Berlin are coming to talk about Qt development.

A little info on the side: mobile freidae is a mix betweet German and English.
What mobile means is obvious.
frei is german and means free, as in Linux. Spoken as the English fri in friday
dae is spoken like the English day and shiuld remind you of maemo.

I made the experience that the event will grow with the time.
A lot of amazing people will involve and make sure it will be a success.
We now have the mobile freidae one time a month, every last friday a month.

I would suggest to met at a really cool locaton, it will grow itself.

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count me in.. im a noob.. but i love messing around with the maemo os :)

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There is no lack of cool locations in SF Bay Area. It's difficult to compare C-Base with anything but a local version could be http://hackerdojo.com/ at Mountain View.

Another thing is whether to stay in the same location or move around, stay in the Valley or jump to San Francisco... Anyway, this can be discussed in/after the first meeting.

A first meetup in September is a reasonable objective. Please explain what would you like to find there, format, topics, demos...

Re: Maemo community in San Francisco Bay Area
 

Don't forget about LinkiedIn groups! that's another good way of getting word out for your meetups.

Re: Maemo community in San Francisco Bay Area
 

I am interested. Availability of bicycle parking would be a big plus.