[WMF-outreach-staff] Requesting help planning the "Hackathon Group Dinner"

[Gregory Varnum]

I'm game for helping. Just got back from vacation to...a power outage. Will send out more once power is back. :)


-Greg

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On Jul 6, 2012, at 1:26 AM, James Hare <james.hare at wikidc.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> 
>> I'd love help planning the "Hackathon Group Dinner" that would be
>> great to see.
>> 
>> Depending on what makes sense, we could:
>> 
>> * Bring food into the Marvin Center, by delivery, and ask people to
>>  split the cost if they participate
> 
> Bringing food into the Marvin Center is forbidden. You have to use the
> overpriced caterer, at which point you may as well...
> 
>> 
>> * Go out to nearby restaurants, so long as I can get a reasonable
>>  list of nearby reasonably-priced places.
> 
> ...and have a better time.
> 
>> 
>> * (your idea here)
>> 
>> Since I'm not a local, and I'm currently far away, I definitely want
>> help with this.
>> 
>> I want to make sure we follow Donald Rumsfeld's advice:
>> 
>> "Whatever it is we do substantively, There will be near-perfect clarity,
>> As to what it is. And it will be known."
> 
> Never thought I'd see the day where a computer programmer would
> casually drop a Rumsfeld reference.
> 
>> 
>> We can document the list of recommended/suggested restaurants on the
>> wiki or something; I can take care of that if people provide a list
>> here on the list, or if people want to be bold and make edits somewhere,
>> that'd be fine with me!
> 
> District Common is a few minutes' walk, and, from what I am told, it
> is quite good. There's also Founding Farmers!
> 
>> 
>> -- Asheesh.
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