New York City 2600

NYC2600 Meeting – Rain date!

Rob T Firefly — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:02:37 +0000

After getting in touch with some attendees who, like us, come into the city from out-of-town, we must announce that due to Hurricane Earl, we won’t be attending tomorrow’s meeting. With areas like coastal New Jersey, Connecticut, and Long Island where many of us bridge-and-tunnel types live expected to be hardest-hit by the storm, with the additional possibilities of mass-transit failure and Citigroup locking up early, we feel we’re better off not advising the trip in for the meeting. For those of you who feel you can safely get there and back again and are willing to defiantly get a meeting going regardless, best of luck! We’d love to see photos.

For the rest of us, we’ll have doing a make-up meeting next Friday, September 10th. We’ll meet up in Citigroup like always, though since we’ll probably have a smaller group things may wrap up earlier, traditions may be changed or abandoned. We’ll wing it, and we’d love to have you there winging it with us.

Who: Us, and hopefully you.

What: The NYC2600 meeting, make-up edition.

When: Friday, September 10, 5:00 PM ~ 7:00 PM?

Where: Citigroup Center, 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue

Why: To meet up, eat food, do stuff, and make up for some lost time!

See you there!

Hurricane Earl

Rob T Firefly — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:40:24 +0000

We are keeping an eye on the news regarding Hurricane Earl, which might wash out our meeting this week. If conditions turn out to be unsafe on Friday we may be compelled to declare next Friday, September 10, our meeting’s rain date. Stay tuned for updates, and use your own best judgment.

NYC2600 Meeting – 09-10

Rob T Firefly — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:13:42 +0000

Who: Us, and hopefully you.

What: The NYC2600 meeting, Friendly Strangulation edition.

When: Friday, September 3, 5:00 PM ~ 8:00 PM

Where: Citigroup Center, 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue

Why: To meet up, eat food, do stuff, and celebrate the birthdays of any available September babies, including our own Grey Frequency.

See you there!

Double X Tech

Rob T Firefly — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:30:28 +0000

A new group is in the works which may be of interest to NYC2600′s female contingent.

Double X Tech is a group of women in technology, who are actively involved with technology. This is a place for lipstick lexers and pedicured python writers.
We accept anyone who writes code, from professionals to self-taught wannabes, but please leave your marketing jargon and elevator pitch at the door.

For more info on what this group is all about, and to RSVP for their first event on September 29, check out their Meetup page.

(via @nycresistor)

Wiki-Conference NYC

Rob T Firefly — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:51:34 +0000

The 2nd annual Wiki-Conference NYC will take place the weekend of August 28-29, at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

The event, which is hosted by Tisch ITP and supported by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia NYC, will feature panel discussions and lightning talks of interest to the Wikipedia, Open-Source, and Free Culture communities. The call for presenters is still open, and the event is still gestating in true wiki style with the involvement of its participants.

Those interested can learn more about the event at its own wiki entry, and register for it here.