Germany bar night? CHANGE OF PLANS

[soap]

I will be in Hamburg Dec. 1st through the 15th.
If anyone wants to get together for drinks...
(I'll have a car, and am willing to drive.)
See below.

[Febs]

Presumably then, it will be the others doing most of the drinking, and not you?

 

[GodEater]

One would certainly hope so...

I don't want to see German headlines to the effect of "Rogue Rockboxer Responsible for Road Deaths" (Alliteration all my own work there - I could be a journalist you know)

[soap]

Ok, now they're sending me to Heidelberg.

[psycho_maniac]

Not to be a sour sport or anything but, this isn't really rockbox related

[Llorean]

Actually it is. We have many European devs and "staff" (experts, people who regularly contribute via bug reports, testing, etc) who never see the ones on the American continents, or vice versa. Having them try to arrange meetups when one's going to be in the neck of the woods traditionally haunted by the others helps everyone get to know each other better. As well, some topics are just better suited to discussing in person (helps reduce the chance of misunderstanding).

So while it's not strictly apparently Rockbox related, it's definitely beneficial for users and devs to meet up. In fact, any attempt to organize social or strictly-usiness Rockbox user gatherings is Rockbox related. Other examples would be, say, the DevCons, but also more casual things like local gatherings of Rockbox users (like LUGs but on a clearly much smaller and simpler scale).

[psycho_maniac]

Alright I understand now. I was just going by the topic.

[scorche]

RUGs.

[LambdaCalculus]

Hey, we can make a wiki for RUGs around the globe!

Combine that with a "Tower of Rockbox" wiki page, where people can post pictures of their best Towers!

[Bagder]

Let me spice this up by offering to send over some Rockbox t-shirts if you manage to get three or more people planned for meeting on the same spot!

[psycho_maniac]

Awesome. I've always wanted a rockbox t-shirt.  I'm like the only one in my state that is active on these forums though sadly or were you refering to only soap?

[Bagder]

No, I'll send them for all and any of you who manage to gather in Germany, of course somewhat limited to the amount of shirts and goods I actually have.

But I wanted it to be at least three people so that it can actually count as a "gathering" ;-)

[Multiplex]

Aw, we used to have three Rockbox users here in my office :-)

Not any more though. We will at Christmas when I (H320) my wife (H120) and my brother (H340) are together, I just need to persuade my nephew to Rockbox his Nano and we'll have three different players...

[Rincewind]

It might be possible in Karlsruhe.
soap, if you have time to visit Karlsruhe during your stay (which is a nice city, by the way ), you could meet with Bluebrother and me. That's critical mass already! Maybe others are from this area, too.

[mor]

I would happly accept one German Beer...
Here in brazil they taste like water...
I just love the original beers
Cheers!