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Chicagoland BYOAC meetup?
Martoon:
Out of curiosity, how long do these get-togethers typically run? I mean, just ballpark - like, an hour or so, or day-after-day-Woodstock-kinda-thing, or what?
Soulcon:
I am all for a Sunday afternoon thing OCT 17 is possible I believe now we need a place that we can all agree on. Also I beleiev it would only last as long as people want to hang. If its ion a resturant I am guessing roughly around an hour maybe two. If we spring for a hotel to show off work I would guess more like 4 hours. But being this is a first I would suggest just doing a small resturant get together so we can plan a big one for a later date. It wouldn't do to set up a hotel and then no one show up and one person be stuck with the bill.
But it is upto you guys really! We just need to get some specifics set out or it will just be a long drawn out process of us all saying "yeah a get together sounds good" and then nothing happening. So hows this sound How about we say.......
Oct 17th Sunday
Time ?
Place?
Once we get a general time and place we will all be set.
-Soul
DougHillman:
If a bunch of local folks would like to meet somewhere for dinner & talking, that's great. I'd do an October 17th thing.
I'm planning on something much bigger. Several cabinets, door prizes, raffle, discussion panels, etc. More of a BYOAC LAN Party. Probably don't have time to get it together by then, though.
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Soulcon:
Aye I agree I would love to see that happen. However that might take use renting out a center or a small entertaining room at a hotel. Which costs money. I figure if we get to know eachother a little better maybe 2 or 3 of us could eventually plan a real get together. We could get some locals to come on down for auctions and the like. But before we make huge plans like that. Lets see who is interested. And by a personal meeting we can all see who would be in it for the long run money wise for a show.
IL doesn't really get any of these kind of shows often so if we get things ironed out........... This could be the start of more arcades flowing into IL instead of ST'LOUIS AND TN ;).
So what times would people like to meet up on OCT 17th And Where?
-Soul
DougHillman:
--- Quote from: Soulcon on September 05, 2004, 02:07:58 pm ---Aye I agree I would love to see that happen. However that might take use renting out a center or a small entertaining room at a hotel. Which costs money. I figure if we get to know eachother a little better maybe 2 or 3 of us could eventually plan a real get together. We could get some locals to come on down for auctions and the like. But before we make huge plans like that. Lets see who is interested. And by a personal meeting we can all see who would be in it for the long run money wise for a show.
-Soul
--- End quote ---
Do you not read my posts? ;)
I've already stated that I'll probably be able to work out something with a LAN Party group that I'm associated with. Great venue, food & drink provided, very reasonable pricing.
There's already a dozen+ locals who've expressed interest (several willing to bring cabinets), as well as a few from further away who've said they might be interested in making it if it were something bigger (I've been in contact with some people who've not posted to this thread.)
Something like this will take some serious planning though, in order to get all to come together smoothly. So it'd probably be several months away. Your idea of getting a coupla locals involved in the works is a great one. We could definately discuss that at a smaller meetup next month.
How about either the Dave & Busters in Addison offa 355, or the Gameworks at Woodfield? Both are within about 20 minutes - half an hour of the Pinball Expo in Rosemont. Sometime in the afternoon in case anyone has church stuff to do or something. 2:00? 3:00? October 17th work for everyone?
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