Demo parties in USA other than NAID
David Nghiem
Question: Are there any other demo parties/gatherings/get togethers/ORGIES in
the North American continent other than NAID? Anyone planning on starting
others? NAID's cool and all( I plan to go this May), but seeing how the
European demo parties sprout faster than a third world nations population, I
was wondering why the same is not exactly happening in the US/Canada. (Maybe
we should get rid of our condom * metaphorical reference *)
Chris Hargrove
Well, as for big 1000-people-or-more compos, NAID is the only one I
know of (I remember in the past there being a thread about one
possible one coming up in October in Silicon Valley, CA, but I haven't
heard anything since).
Mostly what has happened over the past year aside from NAID are what
people seem to be an "Impulse Infestation"... i.e. small mini-parties
of 10 to 50 people that last over a weekend, the name coming from I
think GD's "Mini-Impulse" party last year. I was at one over New
Year's weekend called Resolution (in Baltimore), and there was another
one in Chicago simultaneously, the name of which I can't remember (was
it Tempest? Fill me in here, Trixter.... :)
These mini-parties are a lot of fun, and I think they're holding
people over until NAID comes May 31, and also to compensate slightly
for our lack of other, larger parties. Judging from my recent
experience at Res, I'd very much like to attend more of these
mini-parties (been debating on holding one myself in mid to late
summer after Naid, as a matter of fact).
That's as much as I know. :)
Chris Hargrove, Coding & Organization
a.k.a. Kiwidog - Terraformer/Hornet
email:<kiw...@vt.edu>
http://www.access.digex.net/~terra
Jeremy Tavan
: Well, as for big 1000-people-or-more compos, NAID is the only one I
: know of (I remember in the past there being a thread about one
: possible one coming up in October in Silicon Valley, CA, but I haven't
: heard anything since).
I'd love to see some party here in Silicon Valley. It's a great place to
hold one, aside from not being in Europe. ;) Someone could rend an
exhibit hall of the Santa Clara Convention Center for the party, and
there's lots of good stuff here. If there were any demoscene people in
large quantities, it might work better.
xproject
: Question: Are there any other demo parties/gatherings/get togethers/ORGIES in
: the North American continent other than NAID? Anyone planning on starting
: others?
GD/Hornet and myself planned on a 100-200 person party last summer called
"Impulse" in upstate NY, but due to lack of interest on the part of local
universities & other sites it was cancelled. Floss/Kosmic-Hornet planned one
called Awakening in WA next month but that has been cancelled too. So besides
NAID, no major demoparties are planned in this hemisphere, sorry.
As for small gatherings and get togethers, there have been many, like SoCal
near San Diego, Surreal in Chicago, Mini-Impulse in central NY, and Resolution
in Baltimore. But these have just been real small, like 5-20 people.
Nevertheless they've been fun, and anyone like yourself can throw one.
(plug: http://www.rpi.edu/~vossa/impulse.html for the impulse-series parties)
As for orgies.. well.. I won't get into it. :)
: NAID's cool and all( I plan to go this May), but seeing how the
: European demo parties sprout faster than a third world nations population, I
: was wondering why the same is not exactly happening in the US/Canada. (Maybe
: we should get rid of our condom * metaphorical reference *)
I don't get it. It's not a reference to Capacala, is it? :)
.. as for just _why_ there are 10 billion parties in Europe and one here,
it's because demoparties are pretty much a Euro-culture thing. We're too
damn lazy over here to do anything like that, and we have "better" things
to do, you know, like sell Win95.
--
- Andy Voss - Phoenix[Kosmic] - vo...@rpi.edu - http://www.rpi.edu/~vossa/ -
- "This age of destruction makes everyone smile"-LthrStrip - fight the GOP -
ri...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Maybe we should plan one? I bet we won't have people
cancelling..."Mommy, I'm going to a Demo Orgy..." :)
What would you call it? "Impulsive '96"...
>.. as for just _why_ there are 10 billion parties in Europe and one here,
>it's because demoparties are pretty much a Euro-culture thing. We're too
>damn lazy over here to do anything like that, and we have "better" things
>to do, you know, like sell Win95.
I wonder how many people will misunderstand the intent behind this one.
Anyway, another part of the problem is population density--in Europe
people are pretty much crammed together like sardines. Here, you can
drive for a hundred miles and not even see so much as a gas station,
except for up in Yankeeland. Because of the greater population density,
Europe can have a party in one place and expect a high return from merely
the people all local to that one place.
Whereas here, if someone held a party in Houston, we may not even see
anyone from Dallas.
--
Jimmy Rimmer, Rimbo / Lucid & ACiD | http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~rimbo/
* "If you hide your ignorance, nobody will hit you and you'll never learn." *
* [from Fahrenheit 451] *
xproject
: I'd love to see some party here in Silicon Valley. It's a great place to
: exhibit hall of the Santa Clara Convention Center for the party, and
: there's lots of good stuff here. If there were any demoscene people in
: large quantities, it might work better.
Yeah, it might :). The obvious reason behind the lack of a west coast
demo scene is they can pretty much pick and choose a computer-related job.
(I've heard of so much San Francisco & Seattle based Internet/software
design/engineering it scares me). Plus the weather's nicer too,
no need to get trapped inside coding and tracking. :)
Jeremy Tavan
: Jeremy Tavan (jt...@netcom.com) wrote:
: : I'd love to see some party here in Silicon Valley. It's a great place to
: : hold one, aside from not being in Europe. ;) Someone could rend an
: : exhibit hall of the Santa Clara Convention Center for the party, and
: : there's lots of good stuff here. If there were any demoscene people in
: : large quantities, it might work better.
: Yeah, it might :). The obvious reason behind the lack of a west coast
: demo scene is they can pretty much pick and choose a computer-related job.
: (I've heard of so much San Francisco & Seattle based Internet/software
: design/engineering it scares me). Plus the weather's nicer too,
: no need to get trapped inside coding and tracking. :)
To be honest with you, I think that's the reason why there aren't so many
good coders around here. I certainly am not one. I've been middling
along withth modula-2 and gcc for some time now, but no incentive to
improve much. About the jobs...well...it's pretty amazing. As a 15 year
old I got a job as an assistant sysadmin, then again the next summer, and
all the big companies are hiring like mad. It's amazing. Maybe I'll
take some time to learn asm this year and try publishing some sort of
demo-like piece, but it's just not all the much of an in-demand skill
around here. ;(
xproject
: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
: CALIFORNIAN ASSEMBLY INFOFILE (excerpted from "prizes section")
: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
: Demo Compo Prizes:
: 1. A job for everyone in your group!
: 2. A job.
: 3. Another job.
: 4. A job kinda like the first three, but a little worse as befitting fourth
: place.
: 5. Some more jobs.
: 6. Some ok jobs.
: 7. Jobs we'd rather not do but hey, if you want them...
: 8. A job in the human waste management industry
: 9. Crack whore.
: 10. Assistant crack whore.
: 11. Member, United States Senate.
: 12. Member, United States House of Representatives.
: ok so it isn't funny. this is usenet, what did you expect? :)
: Dennis Courtney
Hey, I thought it was pretty damned funny.
Hihihihihihihihihihi!
dennis courtney
: Yeah, it might :). The obvious reason behind the lack of a west coast
: demo scene is they can pretty much pick and choose a computer-related job.
Well so much more the reason to have a party here...