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Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 22 Mar 2023 15:53
by roleph
As a general question first:
Is there any interest in real life meetings ... like a regular´s table / "Stammtisch" but only once, initially?
Or asked the other way round: are there any reservations from the board admins / group of elders?

And in particular:
I could think of a nice afternoon or evening with some of you guys in a bar or "Biergarten" (summer is coming) somewhere near my place, which means between Dortmund and Hannover / Osnabrück and Kassel. I noticed there are a few active members posting from that area. Could be nice talking about our experience and ideas, not necessarily limited to sexsounds :-)

I thought about this for some time now and would like to know your ...
- opinion in general and
- interest in particular.

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 22 Mar 2023 16:39
by Paul7979
roleph wrote: 22 Mar 2023 15:53 As a general question first:
Is there any interest in real life meetings ... like a regular´s table / "Stammtisch" but only once, initially?
Or asked the other way round: are there any reservations from the board admins / group of elders?

And in particular:
I could think of a nice afternoon or evening with some of you guys in a bar or "Biergarten" (summer is coming) somewhere near my place, which means between Dortmund and Hannover / Osnabrück and Kassel. I noticed there are a few active members posting from that area. Could be nice talking about our experience and ideas, not necessarily limited to sexsounds :-)

I thought about this for some time now and would like to know your ...
- opinion in general and
- interest in particular.
depending on the schedule Id like to participate.. even if I dont live in Germany

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 22 Mar 2023 17:00
by roleph
Paul7979 wrote: 22 Mar 2023 16:39 depending on the schedule Id like to participate.. even if I dont live in Germany
Thank you Paul7979!
You´d be welcome of course but would you be able to communicate in German? I wouldn´t ask if I had an international / European meeting in mind but if it were a regional one, it seems favorable to me at first glance.

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 22 Mar 2023 17:01
by roleph
btw. this is the thread where my idea began to develop:
viewtopic.php?p=87201#p87201

Will leave a link there, too ;-)

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 22 Mar 2023 17:05
by Paul7979
roleph wrote: 22 Mar 2023 17:00
Paul7979 wrote: 22 Mar 2023 16:39 depending on the schedule Id like to participate.. even if I dont live in Germany
Thank you Paul7979!
You´d be welcome of course but would you be able to communicate in German? I wouldn´t ask if I had an international / European meeting in mind but if it were a regional one, it seems favorable to me at first glance.
no sorry I dont know a single word in German

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 22 Mar 2023 17:11
by yeppie
roleph wrote: 22 Mar 2023 15:53 As a general question first:
Is there any interest in real life meetings ... like a regular´s table / "Stammtisch" but only once, initially?
Or asked the other way round: are there any reservations from the board admins / group of elders?

And in particular:
I could think of a nice afternoon or evening with some of you guys in a bar or "Biergarten" (summer is coming) somewhere near my place, which means between Dortmund and Hannover / Osnabrück and Kassel. I noticed there are a few active members posting from that area. Could be nice talking about our experience and ideas, not necessarily limited to sexsounds :-)

I thought about this for some time now and would like to know your ...
- opinion in general and
- interest in particular.
In general:

I like your idea, roleph and offer my assistance if needed.

Thought about this before but never aimed to realize ... although I once met a member during a work trip and had some phone calls with another one years ago.

A regional meeting means fewer hurdles to implementation, so I´d go for that. But an international Conference of SSL sounds very tempting, too :-)

Should you be able to organize such a meeting, I´d love to read some reports afterwards.

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 05 May 2023 13:07
by roleph
No interest in the group, obviously, so I´ll give up that idea ...

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 13 May 2023 15:52
by edtraveller
Be hilarious if there was law enforcement infiltration.

I have thought of this in terms of a business conference format.

Downtown LA, we swarm a hotel - one member takes a floor - or a group of floors depending on how many attendees we have. Next AM we compare recordings, and give prizes to the top 3, and deliver room service breakfast to the three rooms with the addition of champagne to the room with the couple that earned our member 1st place.

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 18 May 2023 15:38
by rabbit61
That was exactly what I was imagining.. like a scavenger hunt for sounds. The idea sounds fun, but the logistics are very difficult. Not like a work trip where we can easily schedule time off and get paid to go.
edtraveller wrote: 13 May 2023 15:52 Be hilarious if there was law enforcement infiltration.

I have thought of this in terms of a business conference format.

Downtown LA, we swarm a hotel - one member takes a floor - or a group of floors depending on how many attendees we have. Next AM we compare recordings, and give prizes to the top 3, and deliver room service breakfast to the three rooms with the addition of champagne to the room with the couple that earned our member 1st place.

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 18 May 2023 20:29
by roleph
rabbit61 wrote: 18 May 2023 15:38 That was exactly what I was imagining.. like a scavenger hunt for sounds. The idea sounds fun, but the logistics are very difficult. Not like a work trip where we can easily schedule time off and get paid to go.
edtraveller wrote: 13 May 2023 15:52 Be hilarious if there was law enforcement infiltration.

I have thought of this in terms of a business conference format.

Downtown LA, we swarm a hotel - one member takes a floor - or a group of floors depending on how many attendees we have. Next AM we compare recordings, and give prizes to the top 3, and deliver room service breakfast to the three rooms with the addition of champagne to the room with the couple that earned our member 1st place.
That´s an interesting idea but not (at all) what I was suggesting ...
I´m not that secret agent kind of guy more the Let´s meet in the beer garden agent :-)

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 18 May 2023 20:52
by Paul7979
roleph wrote: 18 May 2023 20:29
rabbit61 wrote: 18 May 2023 15:38 That was exactly what I was imagining.. like a scavenger hunt for sounds. The idea sounds fun, but the logistics are very difficult. Not like a work trip where we can easily schedule time off and get paid to go.
edtraveller wrote: 13 May 2023 15:52 Be hilarious if there was law enforcement infiltration.

I have thought of this in terms of a business conference format.

Downtown LA, we swarm a hotel - one member takes a floor - or a group of floors depending on how many attendees we have. Next AM we compare recordings, and give prizes to the top 3, and deliver room service breakfast to the three rooms with the addition of champagne to the room with the couple that earned our member 1st place.
That´s an interesting idea but not (at all) what I was suggesting ...
I´m not that secret agent kind of guy more the Let´s meet in the beer garden agent :-)
If we don't arrange them in English I'm afraid it will be more than a challenge to do it

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 18 May 2023 21:16
by roleph
Paul7979 wrote: 18 May 2023 20:52 If we don't arrange them in English I'm afraid it will be more than a challenge to do it
If we´d arrange them in English in Germany the challenge would be much greater for sure.

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 18 May 2023 21:42
by Paul7979
roleph wrote: 18 May 2023 21:16
Paul7979 wrote: 18 May 2023 20:52 If we don't arrange them in English I'm afraid it will be more than a challenge to do it
If we´d arrange them in English in Germany the challenge would be much greater for sure.
I'm just curious, why is that ?

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 18 May 2023 21:54
by roleph
Paul7979 wrote: 18 May 2023 21:42
roleph wrote: 18 May 2023 21:16
Paul7979 wrote: 18 May 2023 20:52 If we don't arrange them in English I'm afraid it will be more than a challenge to do it
If we´d arrange them in English in Germany the challenge would be much greater for sure.
I'm just curious, why is that ?
Isn´t that obvious Paul7979? In a regional meeting in Germany that I suggested, almost everybody from that region attending would talk German as his/hers mother tongue.

Re: Real life meetings conceivable?

Posted: 18 May 2023 22:04
by Paul7979
roleph wrote: 18 May 2023 21:54
Paul7979 wrote: 18 May 2023 21:42
roleph wrote: 18 May 2023 21:16

If we´d arrange them in English in Germany the challenge would be much greater for sure.
I'm just curious, why is that ?
Isn´t that obvious? In a regional meeting in Germany that I suggested, almost everybody from that region attending would talk German as his/hers mother tongue.

Well, we talk in English inhere and if a certain announcement for a meeting is in English one would expect to have it in English I guess. To me a meeting in Germany would be equivalent to a meeting anywhere in Europe (Germany can be reached from everywhere in Europe in max 2 hrs).. but nevertheless I'm relatively new here and I might be mistaken.