Hey Bootcampers and ZPUGDC!
Let's go do some research for the conference and find some Plone
worthy hangouts!
We'll start out at Urbana for dinner: http://www.urbanadc.com/
Please let Katie or I know if you can attend and we'll take care of
reservations. (I've copied Katie on this so you have her email as
well.)
After dinner,let's pop into a few other places and check them out.
(don't worry, we won't make it a wild and crazy night...unless you
really want to.) I'm thinking one drink at each place or something
like that.
Join us if you can! If you haven't attended a Plone social thing
before, you're missing out on the best part of the community! This is
how we network, share information, hear about jobs, learn plone
history, find out about bleeding edge stuff, and ponder the mystery
that is Limi's hair.
See you there!
JoAnna (jluvsu2)

On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:49 PM, JoAnna Springsteen wrote:
[...]

There's no date on here. I think it is thursday...

~ro

I can attend this event! I will probably meet you guys at Urbana.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:49:58PM -0400, JoAnna Springsteen wrote:[...]
[...]

Yeah, tomorrow night! (CC'ing Python meetup people)

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:58:26PM -0400, Reed O'Brien wrote:[...]
[...]

Ha! whoops. Yes, this Thursday evening, right after class we'll head
down to Urbana.


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:49 PM, JoAnna Springsteen
<jluvsu2(at)gmail.com> wrote:[...]

what time is that?

-kapil

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:01 PM, JoAnna Springsteen
<jluvsu2(at)gmail.com>
wrote:
[...]

wow, I'm so failing as a hostess here.
We leave class at 5pm so however long it takes to get from AU to
Dupont Circle. Let's aim for 6pm.


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Kapil Thangavelu <kapilt(at)gmail.com>
wrote:[...][...][...]

Don't forget to let Katie or I know if you plan on attending! We need
an estimate of how many are coming so we can warn the restaurant.
Thanks!

On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:49 PM, JoAnna Springsteen wrote:
[...]

When, 6pm or so? Count me in, possibly plus one if Irene can come.

[...]

I'm down with that. 

    As Jun [Murai] explains it, "I can go to the bar and drink beer.
    I go to a phone and ping my routers, and if they are still working,
    I go back and drink more beer."
    -- Carl Malamud in __Exploring the Internet__

ha! ok slight change of venue...
We'll be meeting at 6pm at the Beacon Bar and Grill:
 http://www.capitalhotelswdc.com/BBGWDC_com/



On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:46 AM, JoAnna Springsteen
<jluvsu2(at)gmail.com> wrote:[...]

i'm in... i've been a few times.. beacon has a mediocre beer selection (for
dc anyways most other cities it would be poor), decent wine, decent food,
good mixed drinks, but its is a fairly tiny space come conference time. its
basically a hotel bar/restaurant.

-kapil

http://www.yelp.com/biz/beacon-bar-and-grill-washington


On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:58 PM, JoAnna Springsteen
<jluvsu2(at)gmail.com>
wrote:
[...]

don't worry. we're going other places too!
/me wants to hit brickskeller, even if reid doesn't like it


On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Kapil Thangavelu <kapilt(at)gmail.com>
wrote:[...][...][...]

On Jul 17, 2008, at 3:31 PM, JoAnna Springsteen wrote:
[...]

Absolutely you shouldn't rule it out without going first.

~ro

"JoAnna Springsteen" <jluvsu2(at)gmail.com> writes:
[...]

Bricks has a great list, but it seems 40% of the time they come back
in 10 minutes and say "uh, we're outta that one".  And the food really
is pretty sad.

There are other joints in town with a good beer selection. Not as big,
but good choices.

At least three places now specializing in Belgian beers, one of my
faves.  (Belga Cafe on 8th SE on The Hill, Granville Moores on H NE above
The Hill, and Brasserie Beck on K St NW).

(I had a rather disgusting experience at Brick's sister restaurant, RFD
in the Convention Center / Chinatown area a while back and the food
was inpalatable. Sure hope Bricks hasn't sunk that low.)

 --Chris "my cat's name is Pivo" Shenton