May 1st, Raleigh 2600 meeting
by Ethan on May.02, 2009, under Uncategorized, business
I dissed the 757 crew and headed Southwest to Raleigh to drop in on their 2600 meeting. I got caught up at work and didn’t get out of Norfolk until around 3:30pm, which delayed me a bit. I had planned to leave at 2pm to make it by the start of their meeting at 5pm. This put me at the Raleigh 2600 around 6:45PM. It was great fun! I met Koft and his girlfriend Dana there (Koft used to live in Hampton R0ads). Saw a few familiar faces from Carolina Con and met new people. Discussion ranged from Ardunio /microcontrollers, to Crestron and other building/entertainment automation platforms, to software, and hardware. Definitely an interesting group of people. I finally forced myself to leave at 11pm, and I have to admit time flew. The group was moving the meeting outside of the coffee shop at this point, the meeting apparently was far from over. In the future I will drop in on their meeting again, but first might have to pay a return visit to the DC 2600 meetings. Around the 1994 – 1996 time frame other locals and myself would make the road trip up there as we didn’t have a meeting here. Perhaps in a few months!
June 11th, 2009 on 2:38 pm
oooo, Snap…
I just thought of something, no shell bashing please…
Uhm, what if like we set up a schedule for example, the 2600 group from 757 met in Raleigh one month, or they came down here, that might be cool, like every few months or something, just to keep things fresh or collab. on some cool ideas etc.
Yeah i know irc chat and stuff is faster maybe so, but just a thought…
maybe i been drinking too much green tea today…