As a result of a post in the comments on this pic, I suggested that we should meet up. Given the response was relatively strong for such an obscure post, I decided to follow through (now that I'm back from a vacation, anyway). Ideas as to other reddits to refer to this post would be appreciated.

I've long been curious what a random sampling of local redditors would be like--and I've been working at home exclusively since moving to Boulder, so haven't had a chance to make many local contacts via my job.

Oskar Blues was suggested, but I'd rather the first Boulder meet-up be a bit closer to, well, Boulder. If the local crowd wants to hike up to Longmont, I'll follow along, at least the first time, though I think we'd have a better turn-out for a Boulder meet-up if we met in Boulder. I'm on the south end of Boulder myself, so it's close to 40 minutes to get anywhere in Longmont from here. If anyone has any Boulder venue suggestions, feel free to post them in the comments.

My thoughts are that a good venue would allow for a flexible sized gathering, and wouldn't be so loud as to hamper conversation.

I'm free on Monday or Tuesday evenings (except for the first Monday of any month). For this first meet-up I could meet on an August Wednesday, if that's the only choice that works for a lot of others. I'll post a few comments with various dates I'm available; upvote the ones you can make. If someone can't make any of the options I post, feel free to post your own date(s), but you're on your own for organizing it.

And if it goes well, we can rotate different days of the week in future meet-ups, to try to accommodate more redditors.

[EDIT] I stared an announcement-only Google group for Boulder redittor meet-ups. No spam; just an announcement of any Boulder-area redditor meet-ups. Likely no more than 1-2 messages a month, if you're worried about it. I won't even post to it until we've settled on a date here.

Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?

[EDIT 2] Looking like this Monday or Tuesday are tied. I think this time around I'm going to say ̶T̶̶u̶e̶s̶d̶a̶y̶,̶ ̶A̶u̶g̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶1̶0̶. We got two votes for Boulder Beer, but I can't find any indication that they have good food in addition to good beer; if anyone knows otherwise, I'm willing to give it a try, but the Walnut Brewery allegedly has good food and beer, and as such has my vote.

Get your final votes or comments in, and I'll put up an official announcement tomorrow at the latest. I figure the time will start at around 6pm, and I'll hang out until at least 9pm or so--people can arrive and/or leave as they need. I'll have a Reddit alien printed out on a page to identify our table/area.

[EDIT 3] Let's do Monday, August 9, to not stomp on the Boulder Hackerspace meeting on Tuesday, August 10. I shouldn't post when I'm half asleep.

[EDIT 4] To be clear: Hackerspace has its own meeting that's independent of this one (and which I may attend as well). The Reddit meet-up is Monday. I'll send out a message to the list to let people know.