Resuming NSCoder Night

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Saul Mora

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Oct 12, 2009, 6:20:21 PM10/12/09
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Hi all,

I'm happy to announce the revival of the Phoenix area NSCoder Night. Come, bring your laptop and your code and have a good time and helping and learning from your fellow NSDeveloper!

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When: Tuesday Nights, starting this Tuesday October 13, from 6-9pm
Where: Liberty Market, 230 N Gilbert RdGilbertAZ

See you there!
Saul

Stephen Sviatko

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Oct 12, 2009, 7:29:55 PM10/12/09
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Sorry to be Mr. Poopiepants about this again, but wasn't this tried a year ago and abandoned due to it being located in Gilbert?

Not everybody lives in the east valley, and I would love to come and hang out, if it wasn't a 60 mile round trip from central Phoenix!

Steve
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Saul Mora

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Oct 12, 2009, 7:59:17 PM10/12/09
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Well,

In the year since then, more of us have found that we live closer to Gilbert than other areas. If there's more interest, the location can be moved. For now, we're going to base it on those who will show up to get some momentum for this kind of thing.

I was put off by the last try also because the one time I went, no one was there. This time, I guarantee that there were will be at least a couple of us there.

Stop by, Liberty Market has some good wifi access, and the tunes are pretty groovy, the food and coffee are pretty good, and I always like talking to fellow NSDevelopers about code :)

See you tuesday,
Saul

Brian Shaler

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Oct 12, 2009, 8:25:56 PM10/12/09
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In Phoenix, no matter where you put it, it's 60 miles round trip for
someone! I see people from Queen Creek attend meetings in Tempe and
Scottsdale and I personally used to drive ~20 miles after work to go
from downtown Phoenix to North-ish Scottsdale to attend Refresh
Phoenix, then drive home to Mesa afterward.

I'd recommend if you like the type of event, do what you can to get to
it. If enough of the attendees are coming from the same direction,
shift it that way. Relocate events to better accommodate people who
attend the events, not just based on email attendance! ;-)


Thanks,
- Brian

Sent from Burlingame, CA, United States

Ian Baird

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Oct 12, 2009, 8:52:14 PM10/12/09
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On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Brian Shaler wrote:

>
> In Phoenix, no matter where you put it, it's 60 miles round trip for
> someone! I see people from Queen Creek attend meetings in Tempe and
> Scottsdale and I personally used to drive ~20 miles after work to go
> from downtown Phoenix to North-ish Scottsdale to attend Refresh
> Phoenix, then drive home to Mesa afterward.
>
> I'd recommend if you like the type of event, do what you can to get to
> it. If enough of the attendees are coming from the same direction,
> shift it that way. Relocate events to better accommodate people who
> attend the events, not just based on email attendance! ;-)
>
>
> Thanks,
> - Brian
>
> Sent from Burlingame, CA, United States
>

I'd attend, but it's too far from Cupertino, CA. Relocate to the state line?

- Ian :-)

Brian Shaler

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Oct 12, 2009, 8:57:52 PM10/12/09
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> I'd attend, but it's too far from Cupertino, CA. Relocate to the state line?
>
> - Ian :-)

Well, I'm in Burlingame at the moment, so we should relocate it to
Menlo Park or Palo Alto!

Dallas Brown

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Oct 12, 2009, 9:28:16 PM10/12/09
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Who is coming up to Salt Lake City for me?

In a month or so we can do some Skiing/Snowboarding and then NSCoder
night.

I call it NSSkiAndCode

I bet Ian will show up for that :-)

-Dallas



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Brian Shaler

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Oct 12, 2009, 9:32:43 PM10/12/09
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Okay... Phoenix, SF, SLC... Computing optimal centralized location...

LAS VEGAS! See you all in Vegas tomorrow!


Oh wait, I have work...


Thanks,
- Brian

Sent from Burlingame, CA, United States


Bradley S. O'Hearne

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Oct 12, 2009, 9:40:03 PM10/12/09
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If you determine the location by quality of coffee, Saul's definitely
nailed the right place. Liberty Market has the best coffee / espresso
around that I've tried -- of course it ought to be: Joe Johnston
(restaurant founder) is one of the original coffee-house tycoons of
Phoenix.

Brad

Brad O'Hearne
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Big Hill Software

Saul Mora

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Oct 12, 2009, 10:02:16 PM10/12/09
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I was looking for a place where you weren't obligated to buy something
(forced or guilted) for wifi and that had a nice chill vibe for some
technical discussion.

Regardless, let's give it a try one more time. I just wanted to start
it up again since we don't really get a chance to share or help each
other with actual code that often.

See y'all there :)

Jiva DeVoe

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Oct 12, 2009, 11:49:00 PM10/12/09
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I think the key to something like this being successful is this:

Saul is gonna be there thursday even if he's alone. I'll probably be
there too, but I think the key is, whoever sets it up pretty much says
"I'm gonna be here at this time, if you choose to come, do, if not, no
worries, I'll be there anyway coding." With that outlook, it's a no
pressure, no loss set up.

In order to do *that* the location needs to be close to whoever is
doing the sitting, and Liberty Market, for Saul, (and me) is.
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Bradley S. O'Hearne

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Oct 13, 2009, 1:32:03 PM10/13/09
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For what its worth, Saul, based on content, location, and company, had
I been in town, I would have been there too. I'm just out for this
one...see you at the one following....

Brad
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