Posted at 10:17 AM on 7-1-10 by Rob T Firefly
Who: Us, and hopefully you.
What: The NYC2600 meeting, pre-HOPE edition.
When: Friday, July 2, 5:00 PM ~ 8:00 PM
Where: Citigroup Center, 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue
Why: To meet up, eat food, do stuff, and help your humble webmasters gather material for their 2600 meeting panel.
See you there!
Posted at 7:14 PM on 6-3-10 by Rob T Firefly
NYC2600.net admins Grey Frequency and Rob T Firefly, together with our fellow longtime NYC2600 attendee and site contributor Gonzo, will be presenting a panel on 2600 meetings at The Next HOPE. Our panel aims to discuss 2600 meetings in general; their history, their place in the hacker world over the years, the ways those interested can find local meetings or start their own, and the effect attending meetings has had on our own lives.
To prepare the best panel we can we hope to gather attendees’ stories and experiences from 2600 meetings worldwide. We’ll be chatting with those of you in NYC at our meetings, and we would also really love to hear from our friends at other meetings all over the world.
How has going to 2600 meetings affected you? Where has your meeting been, and where is it going? Have they gotten better or worse in your opinion? What are some of your favorite 2600 meeting anecdotes and stories? We’d love to hear it all. If you’re into chatting with us over email, instant messenger, phone, etc. and helping us build our presentation, please contact us and we’ll set it up!
We’d also love to get in touch with our own counterparts at other meetings. Do you run your local meeting’s website, admin your local meeting’s forum, or perform other point-of-contact duties? Let’s swap stories!
Thank you in advance for all your help!
– Gonzo, Grey, and Rob
Posted at 3:42 PM on 1-17-10 by Rob T Firefly
Sidepocket informs us that over on Facebook, the existing NYC2600 Alumni group was recently left without an admin. To remedy this and prevent similar occurrences in the future, Sidepocket has recreated NYC2600′s Facebook presence as a Fan Page, which allows for multiple admins as well as being easier to join and use.
So in technical terms, Facebook users are advised to ditch the old and busted and get in on the new hotness!
Interested users of Facebook and other social networks and online services are encouraged to check out our Internet Forums page, where you can find NYC2600 presences all over this great Internet of ours, or start new ones where needed.
Posted at 7:33 PM on 1-14-10 by Rob T Firefly
Have you got old and useless junk that not even HAX can make useful again, just taking up space? Here’s a chance to free up that space for new and useful junk.
This Saturday, January 16, the Lower East Side Ecology Center and Tekserve are throwing another of their e-waste recycling events. Bring your old computers, printers, monitors, TVs, and other unwanted electronics to Tekserve on West 23rd St (between 6th and 7th aves) for recycling. In addition to the generally warm and fuzzy feeling associated with recycling in public, every participant gets a $25 coupon and a chance to win a new MacBook Air.
See Tekserve’s page about the event for details, and the full list of acceptable recyclables.
Posted at 5:07 AM on 12-14-09 by Rob T Firefly
Important note!
The first Friday of next month just so happens to fall upon January 1st, 2010; New Year’s Day. (For those of you keeping score, it’s been 11 years since the last time this happened, and it won’t happen again for another six.)
Of course, we don’t expect people to give up their New Year’s Day festivities and/or recuperation to come to the 2600 meeting. That being the case, we’ll be doing something extremely rare in the grand scheme of 2600 meetings. The official date for the meeting is being pushed forward a week, to the second Friday in January.
So, come out and enjoy the first 2600 meeting of the 2010s on Friday, January 8! Mark your calendars! Tell your friends! Update your tattoos!
And of course, we at NYC2600.net wish all of you and yours a wonderful holiday season, and a very happy and safe New Year.
We’ll see you in The Future!
