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Re: New group forming in Seattle region

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On Apr 16, 2:56 pm, nyder <nyder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If i wasn't anti-social i might go.  but I am.
>
> but in case i might change my mind, which part of north seattle?

As I said in my previous post, no location has been chosen yet, and
none will be until we find out where people tend to come from. So far,
the few responses admitting some sort of neighbourhood or geographic
area have been received from various points in central Seattle (say
within 5 miles of downtown), the north end of Lake Washington (Kenmore
and Bothell), and the Eastside (Bellevue and Redmond). It's kind of
vexing, really; naïvely interpreted, we'd have to meet in the middle
of the lake to approximate being centrally located for our potential
members.

People seem to be reluctant to volunteer information about geography,
even in confidence -- which is, bluntly, silly. I don't know or care
what anyone's home address is, I just want to know approximately what
part of town to hold meetings in so they'd consider it to be "close
enough to local for government work." Most people seem to be of the
opinion that they will ignore the whole business until a meeting is
actually scheduled, presumably hoping the venue will turn out to be
somewhere convenient for them purely by luck.

A number of possible meeting places have been proposed, but the major
difficulty with the ones I have examined so far is difficulty of
access. Wherever we end up meeting needs to have at least minimal bus
service even late at night, because a lot of retrotech enthusiasts
(especially in Seattle) are of extremely limited means, but it will
also need a good amount of free parking near the building because (a)
people will visit from far away (I've had great interest from people
at meetings in Pierce County), and (b) people will have bulky or heavy
gear to demonstrate that will need to be laboriously toted in from
trunks and back seats.

Oh well, the search continues. Please help me narrow things down; to
the nearest five miles or so, what part of town are you in, nyder?
Feel free to reply by email.

Gordon

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New group forming in Seattle region gsteemso <gsteemso@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 13:34 -0700
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    Re: New group forming in Seattle region gsteemso <gsteemso@gmail.com> - 2011-04-18 20:10 -0700
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