[NCLUG] September 9 through 11, Northern Colorado Hackathon.

[Sean Reifschneider]

Note: If you are interested, you NEED to RSVP by August 24.

Greetings.  We are in the late planning stages for an event scheduled for
the evening of Friday September 9 through the afternoon of Sunday September
11.  The event, the Northern Colorado Hackathon, is kind of an extension of
Hacking Society (http://www.hackingsociety.org/) to a weekend camping event
with a bunch of (primarily Linux) geeks.  We are still doing some planning,
but I am figuring we will set up some play area and some hacking area.

There will be wireless and probably wired Ethernet with a connection to the
public Internet, and lots of power.  We plan to provide some food and
snacks as well.  The hacking area will be meant for geeking and geek
discussion.  The play side may include board and card games, chatting, and
probably some projectors to do geek movies and deathmatch on PS2s
once it gets dark.

So, here's the deal.  It'll be at Boyd Lake park in Loveland.  There is,
not surprisingly, a lake for entertainment as well.  We will have Internet
via a wireless connection, possibly even quite speedy.  We expect to
provide some level of meals and snacks and are currently targeting $30,
though I expect we may have to go up to $40, per person for the whole
weekend.  If you just want to stop by for a night or a day or something, it
would probably be something less than this.

But, if you want to go, you *NEED* to let me know, by private e-mail, by
August 24 at the latest.  We have enough space for at most 36 people right
now, but will reduce that if we don't have enough RSVPs by then.  We will
expand it if we have the demand.  Note that one of the two spaces bordering
our area is already taken, so the sooner we know the better.

Note that this is absolutely being done not for profit.  If you RSVP and
then can't make it, we can return whatever portion of the expenses that
aren't already consumed.  The space we cannot get money back on after the
24th, but food we will buy the day before.

If you want to leave it until the last minute, I'd be surprised if you
can't find space at the park just by showing up.  However, as I mentioned
above, spaces are already being reserved by others.  You will almost
certainly have to find a spot away from where we are, possibly even in a
different part of the park.  You will also probably have to pay something
around $52 for a camp site as opposed to the $10 per person we can do
through group reservations.

If you are at all interested, please join the mailing list at:

   http://lists.community.tummy.com/mailman/listinfo/hackathon/

We are planning and will finalize information there.  If you want to go,
*PLEASE* RSVP soon.  If you know someone who may be interested, please let
them now.

Thanks,
Sean
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