Mr. Uber event organiser himself has suggested a blogger dinner in Cork, sooner rather than later. I’m there. But please please please, not the same old fucking faces again. Ok, yes the same old faces but only if they bring a new face too. I really do fear that BarCamp and other events are getting far too cliquey. We need to expand the brainwashing programme.
Don’t bring a bottle, bring a new person. Start of August maybe?
“Uber” in this case being Swedish for “hasn’t done a tap in weeks on anything he’s supposed to be helping with”.
Start of August good as we’ll all be bored.
Looks like there is a ton of new local bloggers around so we’ll just have to go spam them with comments telling them to turn up.
If I was Jamie Oliver, this would be a BBQ in Garretstown or something.
Oh, sounds good. I’ll be there if I can. Hopefully i’ll have better dinner conversation then I do blogposts.
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Why not?
I think it’s a good idea, but only is the mix of people is right. Setting up regional meetups with the same faces time after time gets boring.
While I say that on one hand, I probably won’t be able to travel to Cork for dinner. 🙂
I know I’m gonna regret this but if the weather ever improves, I’d consider having a Bandon Blogger BBQ. Would anyone travel to the sticks if we did?
Conor,
Yes, I’d travel out to Bandon for a bloggers’ BBQ. Never been to one before. And I would bring my own food, marinaded. But, given that it’s ten days since your comment, there might be a tiny group, which wouldn’t bother me.
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