A few of us here in York (including myself and Mr Pixelicious Pete) have been throwing around the idea of organising a geek meet this month. I met with Pete at lunchtime today and assembled a bit of a plan for the weekend of October 15th.
We invite the geek community to descend on the city of York in droves for the great Northern Geekend – southerners welcome.
Plans aren’t set in stone, but the idea is to visit a handful of York’s many pubs, perhaps go for a meal in one of the lovely local restaurants and also do York in some fashion. There’s plenty going on that weekend in York, including SightSonic 2005 (York International Festival of Digital Arts). Or some might like to do a bit of the tourist thing, like visiting some Vikings! Who’s for a bit of Frisbee? Or a trip down the River Ouse? Whatever floats your boat really! Geddit? Geddit?! Ah, never mind!
Accommodation will be provided by one of the Holiday Inn
Express/Travel Inn/etc, or if you’re really lucky, in the homes of local geeks.
So let either me or Pete know if you’re interested or to ask for more info. Spread the word – the more the merrier.
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Another reason to ask myself why oh why I moved down south. Good luck and have a great time Jon. Geek hard and um… Geek hard! 🙂
What time is this going to get started? I need to be back for the early evening as its a friend of mines daughters christning party.
We were thinking that anyone who wanted to come to York on the Friday night could come out to the pub. Lark on the Saturday – meet in time for lunch maybe – planning a meal in a restaurant for the Saturday night. Sunday will probably end up being a bit of a chill day, and Jo and I are going to be busy on the Sunday afternoon anyway.
I might be able to twist some arms and be able to come Saturday mid-morning to early evening approx. 7:00pm because I have work by 5:00 am and the trains take ages…
So you better be armed and dangerous, or something like that (if I can make it)… Yeah, perhaps we’ll be able to see Tommy’s wood-hut reconstruction.
OK, the plan is to meet on the Saturday at The Capital at 1pm. We’ve booked a meal in Villa Italia (Fellini’s, our favourite, was fully booked) for 7pm that night – check out the menu.
Feel free to come on the Friday night still.