[HCoop-Discuss] HCoop 10th anniversary meetup

[Adam Chlipala]

Though I haven't been involved much at all with HCoop in years, I might 
attend an event in Boston! Probably I wouldn't work up the energy to 
travel more than an hour. In February, though, you might want to plan in 
terms of highest expected temperatures, to minimize the risks of winter 
weather; in which case Boston would not be a winner.

On 10/28/2014 03:33 AM, Nathan Kennedy wrote:
> I floated the idea of a 10th anniversary HCoop meet-up at a meeting 
> earlier in the year, and there was a little interest. While the 
> HCoop’s origins (http://wiki.hcoop.net/OurHistory) as cooperative 
> hosting go back to 2002 and the community has roots dating back even 
> to 1996, the corporate birthdate of HCoop Inc. as a legal entity is 
> February 17, 2005.
>
> It’s getting late but since I had volunteered myself to help organize 
> this before, if this is going to be a thing it’s time to start picking 
> venues, sending out announcements, inviting presenters and such. I 
> think it would definitely be worth doing if we could get even half a 
> dozen HCoopers together in the same place for the first time, as long 
> as it’s not going to be just me. And it would be nice to promote it 
> locally and draw in others from the free software/open 
> source/Linux/UNIX/web communities and make it a somewhat legitimate 
> geek event. I know I have a record of overcommitting but I do have 
> time off in February to make it happen.
>
> Given HCoop’s center of gravity this would probably be in the 
> northeastern USA, thinking Boston, NYC or Philly, but if more people 
> would show up someplace warmer or such that’s fine by me, except that 
> an executive decision will need to be made soon.
>
> I’ll put up a wiki page, but can we get some discussion of interest on 
> the list first? Anyone up for an HCoop meetup some weekend in 
> February? Better yet, anyone interested in coming AND helping out with 
> organizing?