Upcoming meet-ups: Buenos Aires, Minneapolis, Ottawa, Edinburgh, Cambridge, London, DC

As noted, the Boston / Cambridge meetup group has a meeting approximately every other Sunday at 2pm in Kendall. This week we also have a bonus activity.

As LW user Chronophasiac describes it:

I and a few other Less Wrong readers are trying to make fire.

No, seriously.

We're building the "technology tree" of humanity from the bottom up, both as a bit of fun and an exercise in group problem-solving. I've been experimenting with basic stone tools and rope. The next step is to start a fire, using nothing but what we can make ourselves out of pre-technological raw materials. So far our best bet is to make a bow drill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_drill

We'd like to invite the Cambridge LW meetup group to participate in our first attempt, tentatively scheduled for this Sunday at 4pm to coincide with the normally scheduled meetup.

I'm soliciting the meetup group for location suggestions. We would like to carry out this activity in a heavily wooded area. We'll need access to many different kinds of plants: young saplings to make rope, birch trees to make kindling, and so on. We'd also like it to be T-accessible and as close to Cambridge as possible.

This is a rain-or-shine event. I'll be bringing a cordless drill and pre-made wooden parts, plus tinder and lighter fluid. Fire WILL be made, even if we have to cheat.

Great solution! Very minor detail: I would suggest listing the cities in alphabetical order in the heading rather than time order.

I'd also suggest "Cambridge MA" as there's another Cambridge that has also had meetups (and having originally come from there, I confess it confuses me every single time)

The St Louis group has stopped meeting for the summer (all but one of us are college students who live elsewhere during the summer). I've updated the wiki to reflect this.

I know a few people weren't here during the semester and wanted to meet up during the summer. Don't let our absence stop you! It's just as easy to arrange a meetup yourself.

Should the Houston May 22 meetup be added to this post or should it want until the next one? http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/5pp/houston_hackerspace_meetup_sunday_may_22_500pm/

Thanks!

The San Francisco group is now meeting weekly. I've updated the wiki page with the information.

Thank you!

The Seattle group has been meeting every other Sunday, and I have updated the wikipage to reflect this.

Good solution!

I too applaud the new "digest" format.

Nice! Glad to see you consolidating these.

Some spaces are missing in your original post, so I'd guess you're having the

It would be nice if there were still a way to reward meetup organizers with nontrivial karma. For relatively new users the gain in karma from a meetup post used to be significant, and this probably helped cause more meetups to happen. (I wasn't going to bring this up because of the self-serving element, but nobody else has, and I have been voting up a lot of meetup posts for exactly this reason.)

Any chance of a regular meetup getting started in the DFW area?

Edit: Before anyone tells me to start one myself, my intention with asking this question was polling to see if anyone else actually lives there.

I just announced some meetups in Southern California.

Thank you Anna.