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May 2024 Debate Politics - Meetup/Celebration

I've asked Elon Musk to pay for all current Debate Politics Members to fly-into Sandals Antigua for a conference of the politically adept to give him ideas on how to progress the agenda of saving humanity as our 20 yr anniversary.

The qualifications for a flight ticket, room, and meals are a 2-year membership and recently active status. There will be a limit of 2000 active members, with the Staff being automatically approved. First come, first serve will be the criteria.

The combined brain power of such an eclectic, educated, and experienced group of individuals will be invaluable, plus we get to party together.

It probably won't happen, but hey, nothing tried!

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LOVE IT grip, but I don't qualify🥺 I haven't been here 2 years!
 
You know how when you are planning a get together with a group of friends but you hope a certain someone doesn't show up, thankfully.
Cuz you just might find out you really like em, heaven forbid...yeah, me too... :giggle:
 
I would hate Dallas. I vote for Washington, DC. It's the focus of much of our discussion and most airlines fly there directly from large cities. I do have a concern that we may be in the throes of another covid epidemic in which case we may have reverted to flying less and congregating less in large groups.

All airlines fly to NYC but I don't think our red state friends would feel comfortable in such a busy, aggressive environment.
 
Bump.

It seems the majority that are interested are wanting remote. All good.

I'm happy to have a meetup in the Dallas area and remote in to zoom.

@Checkerboard Strangler tell us more about zoom or did you mean participation?
 
Bump.

It seems the majority that are interested are wanting remote. All good.

I'm happy to have a meetup in the Dallas area and remote in to zoom.

@Checkerboard Strangler tell us more about zoom or did you mean participation?
I have used zoom for year's. It's a video conference program that creates a virtual room for people to meet in. Smaller rooms can be made within the larger room to break off into subgroups. It's free to join so no fees for the participants.

The only snag is that for an event of this size you will need a host with a paid account. The free account limits the number of people you can allow in your room and it only allows the room to be open for about an hour.

To do this successfully you will want a host who is a paid subscriber to zoom.

If you decide to do it I have experience running rooms and am happy to volunteer myself to help keep order so people don't talk over each other and stuff. You will need people to do that if you do this.
 
Bump.

It seems the majority that are interested are wanting remote. All good.

I'm happy to have a meetup in the Dallas area and remote in to zoom.

@Checkerboard Strangler tell us more about zoom or did you mean participation?

Like @trouble13 I'm also adept at using Zoom and the bonus is, I pretty much have everything a TV station has except the transmitter and antenna.
Let me know if there is any interest, I'll do what I can to help....need some lead time though.
 
20 years. Gratz!!

I've been here for just over half of that.

But...I'll pass. Various reason, from financial to simply no desire to meet some of the abusive people here on DP in person.

It would be great to meet you.
 
What if we did regional - so west, Midwest, south, northeast? Maybe more would be interested if they didn’t have to travel as far?

And Zoom?
 
I suggest east coast Canada, Halifax, NS. Your USD goes 35 % further, seafood to beef and great Canadian beer
We welcome all religions/Deities, political views (y)
 
Necro'ing my own thread.

@Checkerboard Strangler reach out via PM when you get a moment. Let's see what we can come up with for zoom meetup and how that might look.

If interested in joining the private chat to help, let me know.

I'm perfectly okay with being a hired hand too, your forum, your show, your rules.
I can be perfectly happy just facilitating if you like.
 
I have used zoom for year's. It's a video conference program that creates a virtual room for people to meet in. Smaller rooms can be made within the larger room to break off into subgroups. It's free to join so no fees for the participants.

The only snag is that for an event of this size you will need a host with a paid account. The free account limits the number of people you can allow in your room and it only allows the room to be open for about an hour.

To do this successfully you will want a host who is a paid subscriber to zoom.

If you decide to do it I have experience running rooms and am happy to volunteer myself to help keep order so people don't talk over each other and stuff. You will need people to do that if you do this.

PS: Since you already did participate a couple of years ago this gives me hope, two heads are better than one and I did just reactivate my Zoom Pro account so no more guest list or time limits.
 
I don't think I would want to participate in a virtual get together. I also wouldn't want to travel far, however. I like the idea of smaller, regional get togethers if enough people are interested to make it worthwhile. I have always liked the idea of meeting people in person. If my region didn't include any posters I knew from being on-line, though, I might not be so enthusiastic. When I pictured this event, I pictured meeting some posters whose nicknames I would recognize.
 
Hard to believe that in May of 2024, our little forum will be online for 20 years.

Let's celebrate!! 🎉🥳

Looking for ideas and reaching out for folks that are willing to help plan a meetup or some type of celebration.

Single location? Multiple locations with streaming? Dinner, fun & games, fine wine/beer/spirits?
Dunno, but I'm personally excited just thinking about it.

We still have some months to go, but no time like the present to throw the idea out there to see if there is support.

Thoughts?

(y)(n)❓
Missed this completely last year so here are my most sincere congratulations on the upcoming 20th anniversary.

As to a meet-up, physically I'm located pretty much away from the forum's "center of life" (US of A) and although travel would not be a problem on the financial side, I'm pretty much done with traveling altogether (certainly the trans-Atlantic version) for all sorts of other reasons.

That said (and if all the above were not such a limitation for me) there are plenty of DP members I wouldn't mind meeting at all, even those consistently behaving like assholes on here.:p

I've succeeded in just one get-together with (equally) just one DP member, on account of both us living in the more or less same vicinity down here (Southern Spain) and that whole shindig was very pleasant.

In that spirit I wish all of you success in any get-together celebration, in whichever form that may take place and, beyond, continuous success in the future life of this excellent forum.

Last but not least, heart-felt thanks to you and all the staff for your continuous efforts to keep this here ship a-sailing.
 
My suggestions:

1. Forget about regional Zooms. Geographic location is irrelevant to an online meetup on a forum with worldwide membership. I'd rather be able to chat with people from all over North America and Europe.

2. Everyone calm down about members you don't like. On another forum we had in-person meetings routinely (it was a travel forum with a political section, so everyone traveled a lot). These meet-ups were always a lot of fun, even between members who disagreed strongly about politics.

3. This is for shy people: it's easy to keep your camera off if you don't want to reveal your face. If you're even more of an introvert you can turn your microphone off and text the group.
 
Hard to believe that in May of 2024, our little forum will be online for 20 years.

Let's celebrate!! 🎉🥳

Looking for ideas and reaching out for folks that are willing to help plan a meetup or some type of celebration.

Single location? Multiple locations with streaming? Dinner, fun & games, fine wine/beer/spirits?
Dunno, but I'm personally excited just thinking about it.

We still have some months to go, but no time like the present to throw the idea out there to see if there is support.

Thoughts?

(y)(n)❓
We would have to know who is participating...

But I do like the idea... :)
 
My suggestions:

1. Forget about regional Zooms. Geographic location is irrelevant to an online meetup on a forum with worldwide membership. I'd rather be able to chat with people from all over North America and Europe.

2. Everyone calm down about members you don't like. On another forum we had in-person meetings routinely (it was a travel forum with a political section, so everyone traveled a lot). These meet-ups were always a lot of fun, even between members who disagreed strongly about politics.

3. This is for shy people: it's easy to keep your camera off if you don't want to reveal your face. If you're even more of an introvert you can turn your microphone off and text the group.
There are at least a few dozen people here that are just horrible people... accusing people of bigotry, trans-phobia, racism and misogyny.

I would not participate in anything that they were a part of.
 
There are at least a few dozen people here that are just horrible people... accusing people of bigotry, trans-phobia, racism and misogyny.

I would not participate in anything that they were a part of.
There are a few intolerant people in both camps. If they can't see fit to put differences aside for an easy-going gabfest it's probably not for them, or you.

But my experience has been that these things go well.
 
We would have to know who is participating...

But I do like the idea... :)
Don't know who's on until they're on. There's no advance RSVP.
 
Hard to believe that in May of 2024, our little forum will be online for 20 years.

Let's celebrate!! 🎉🥳

Looking for ideas and reaching out for folks that are willing to help plan a meetup or some type of celebration.

Single location? Multiple locations with streaming? Dinner, fun & games, fine wine/beer/spirits?
Dunno, but I'm personally excited just thinking about it.

We still have some months to go, but no time like the present to throw the idea out there to see if there is support.

Thoughts?

(y)(n)❓

This sounds awesome! :) Please do have some online options for those of us not in the States (or folks within the States who can't travel). Live streaming from in-person events into the online party would be awesome too!

Don't hesitate to holler if you need some help with the brainstorming. 🥳
 
Hard to believe that in May of 2024, our little forum will be online for 20 years.

Let's celebrate!! 🎉🥳

Looking for ideas and reaching out for folks that are willing to help plan a meetup or some type of celebration.

Single location? Multiple locations with streaming? Dinner, fun & games, fine wine/beer/spirits?
Dunno, but I'm personally excited just thinking about it.

We still have some months to go, but no time like the present to throw the idea out there to see if there is support.

Thoughts?

(y)(n)❓
Hard to believe that in May of 2024, our little forum will be online for 20 years.

Let's celebrate!! 🎉🥳

Looking for ideas and reaching out for folks that are willing to help plan a meetup or some type of celebration.

Single location? Multiple locations with streaming? Dinner, fun & games, fine wine/beer/spirits?
Dunno, but I'm personally excited just thinking about it.

We still have some months to go, but no time like the present to throw the idea out there to see if there is support.

Thoughts?

(y)(n)❓
Congrats on 20 years for a great forum, Schweddy. It sounds fun getting together online. I have an idea formed of what the posters I'm familiar with are like, and seeing their real faces could be a crushing blow to the imagined person I think of them as. So I probably won't participate, but it does sound like a great idea, and I wanted to thank you for your efforts to keep DP an ad free and somewhat civil corner of the web. There are a lot of smart posters here for a reason.
 
Hard to believe that in May of 2024, our little forum will be online for 20 years.

Let's celebrate!! 🎉🥳

Looking for ideas and reaching out for folks that are willing to help plan a meetup or some type of celebration.

Single location? Multiple locations with streaming? Dinner, fun & games, fine wine/beer/spirits?
Dunno, but I'm personally excited just thinking about it.

We still have some months to go, but no time like the present to throw the idea out there to see if there is support.

Thoughts?

(y)(n)❓
I remember the first one.

As I recall, Kelzie was involved. She was the tops.
 
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