mac meetings

eurotrotter

hey guys was just thinking
im on macs now for about 5 months
i still feel like i could learn way more
i was thinking about having a monthly mac meet, just to exchange ideas and helpful tips and things like that.
what do u guys think of this for an idea?!
thanks
ed

jpfahy

I'm in

WizZard

Yeah, Dublin though

eurotrotter

im moving to dublin in june for good, so id be available and well for it!

440Hz

Sorry! Dublin is too far for me!

eurotrotter

not being smart now or anything, but it appears liek most of the mac users on boards who contribute to the mac subforum are based in dublin, wood this be fair to say?

WUSBDesign

There is a special interests group in Macs organised in Dublin - see ClubMac if it suits.

Ham'nd'egger

440Hz wrote: »

Sorry! Dublin is too far for me!

If you ask me, we should bring all our Mac's to Kerry for the weekend; they deserved the break!

faceman

Hamndegger wrote: »

If you ask me, we should bring all our Mac's to Kerry for the weekend; they deserved the break!

Do they have the interwebs in kerry??? Rumour has it, 440 has to drive to cork to go online!!

*hides from ban stick*

eurotrotter

thanks for that
but i was thinking of a mac meeting that would really be a workshop, just for asking questions, learn how to do things u cant do, learn new stuff, learn how to make a good home movie with imovie that kinda thing.

WUSBDesign wrote: »

There is a special interests group in Macs organised in Dublin - see ClubMac if it suits.

aidan_walsh

440Hz wrote: »

Sorry! Dublin is too far for me!

Screw those guys. We can have our own meetings in Cork/Kerry. With blackjack. And hookers.

Ham'nd'egger

faceman wrote: »

Do they have the interwebs in kerry??? Rumour has it, 440 has to drive to cork to go online!!

*hides from ban stick*

They do have it down there; it's posted up once a week with the newspapers:p

ZENER

I vote Aidan_Walsh organises the meets !!

I'd be in if this takes off.

ZEN

faceman

if its in dublin or thereabouts it be up for it. Im not a techie though although i can work the teletext and set a VCR to record

ZENER

faceman wrote: »

. . . . although i can work the teletext and set a VCR to record

Settles that then ! You're manning the Genius Bar at the meets so !

ZEN

440Hz

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Screw those guys. We can have our own meetings in Cork/Kerry. With blackjack. And hookers.

+1

Do I have to take a hooker though? Girls don't float my boat :pac:

Yeah why don't ye all take a road trip? Much more fun. I'll teach ye a thing or two

Rollo Tamasi

I wouldn't mind one of these meet-up things.
Dublin or Cork is fine for me.
I float both ends up.

I think joining Club Mac is the most logical thing though.

babypink

see......rollo makes a good point, club mac is already there and does monthly meets, talks etc.


though i'd be up for a boards meet irrespective

ZENER

Boards Beers ftw !

ZEN

440Hz

Yeah just a forum beers would be good, to get things started anyway. But you'll all want Dublin won't ye Boooooohisssssss

monkeyfudge

Yeah... you can all come and touch my 8 Core Power Macs as an outing one month.

ZENER

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Yeah... you can all come and touch my 8 Core Power Macs as an outing one month.

. . . then I'll show you one I built for a fraction of the price . . . :pac::pac:

ZEN

eurotrotter

does club mac have workshops?

it looks to me like club mac only caters for the mac user who already knows it all?

or am i wrong?

WUSBDesign

Try posting a query on the ClubMac board and see what they say...From the online "minutes" of the meetings, it appears they do discuss general topics of all sorts. Failing that, you should still be able to get hold of a few acquaintances who are Mac "old-timers".

Only problem - you've got to pay a token sum to attend the meetings - but I may be wrong.

monkeyfudge

I went to one of those ClubMac meetings once.

It was held in some cricket club way over on the South side of the city. Seemed like a fairly old crowd as well.

I see Richard Bannister is involved though... doesn't he do the conversion of the video game emulators for the mac?

faceman

Bollox to meeting minutes and token gestures! Id be more into an informal meet up, few beers (avoid spilling on macbook!) and plenty of, "cool whats that app do?" questions!

Sad Professor

faceman wrote: »

Bollox to meeting minutes and token gestures! Id be more into an informal meet up, few beers (avoid spilling on macbook!) and plenty of, "cool whats that app do?" questions!

+1

Tbh while it's a good idea I'm doubtful there'd be the numbers or regularity (or sobriety) for a workshop to really benefit anyone. This forum is already a kind of cyber-workshop and is probably enough for most people.