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Hi!
@Cello came up with an idea that I really liked for having something like the Flopax and UKpax meetups in Canada. Get together, drink some obscene amounts of alcohol and chow down on poutine and hang out with generally rad people for a weekend.
But, like everything to do with Canada, there's the issue that this is one big-ass country, and we're not sure how spread out forumers are, and how many people would be interested in coming.
At first we'd be looking at meeting in the general area of the southern border between Quebec and Ontario (Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto), mainly because that's the area where Cello and I both live. Also would be reasonably close for north-eastern Americans who would also be free to come
Eventually if we got enough interest we could see for one year to have the meetup in someplace in the west like Vancouver or the prairies too!
So the basic question we'd be asking is if people in the general area (or outside, if you're that into it) would be interested in such a meetup, and we haven't really discussed times when it would happen. I'm guessing if we're having it in the eastern side of the continent, then having it in the fall would be best, to separate it from PaxEast by a few months.
Let us know what you think!
http://doodle.com/riupdagwhm3auyxy
Cheers!
Hi!
@Cello came up with an idea that I really liked for having something like the Flopax and UKpax meetups in Canada. Get together, drink some obscene amounts of alcohol and chow down on poutine and hang out with generally rad people for a weekend.
But, like everything to do with Canada, there's the issue that this is one big-ass country, and we're not sure how spread out forumers are, and how many people would be interested in coming.
At first we'd be looking at meeting in the general area of the southern border between Quebec and Ontario (Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto), mainly because that's the area where Cello and I both live. Also would be reasonably close for north-eastern Americans who would also be free to come
Eventually if we got enough interest we could see for one year to have the meetup in someplace in the west like Vancouver or the prairies too!
So the basic question we'd be asking is if people in the general area (or outside, if you're that into it) would be interested in such a meetup, and we haven't really discussed times when it would happen. I'm guessing if we're having it in the eastern side of the continent, then having it in the fall would be best, to separate it from PaxEast by a few months.
Let us know what you think!
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On the other hand that's basically where half of SE++ lives anyway.
In beautiful Saskatoon.
The Paris of the Prairies in the Land of Living Skies.
Alternatively we could see about renting a cabin for a weekend somewhere
It took a year to plan, book and pay for, but it was amazing. We rented a big beach house in Byron Bay on the east coast and it was a 4 or 5 day wonderful party spree. People came from all over (Wimble came from Sweden and Mysst came from Texas even) so if you plan out far enough and put together something good and solid, it's usually enough of an incentive to make the trip.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
It's a long, expensive flight for never leaving the country!
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I'd like to visit it again.
Honestly, though we just had FanExpo here, I feel like its nowhere close to the level of awesome the PAX events have. Probably because I feel like FanExpo spreads itself way too thin between Gaming, Comics, Sci-Fi, Horror and Anime. Theres too *little* to see because they have to make room for everything else, so we never get anything unique in the gamer scene or panels which is primarily all I'm interested in.
Also, the price of the passes is borderline extortion. Put a convention on that focuses on one or two things and charge a little less while being able to curry more developers and industry guests.
Anyway sorry for that tangent. Just needed to get that off my chest. Obviously a PaxNorth wouldn't mean setting up a whole convention (though that'd be sweet as I explained above why) and I'd be down to meet up here, Ottawa or Montreal.
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Would people prefer a urban or suburban meetup? Renting a cabin in a less downtowny, more urbany (maybe waterfront?) area, or meeting up in a downtown core surrounded by bars?
I feel renting a cabin, packing it with drinks, food, and game things, maybe an hour away from a bar-having-place would be ideal?
but I'm always looking for excuses to go to Montreal
A cabin some distance away sounds real nice.
Getting drunk, playing board games, hiking, camping, ect...
Stuff to make this really its own signature event.
raise enough hell to get the RCMP to come break up the party
let's hit all the stereotypes.
Yep.
This is what I want.
I would think getting a little out of town would be the best idea.
You can get a big place where everyone can stay together and make some fun, but people from far away can do some day trips together into the city.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
"Canadian cult calling it's self Packs reportedly all died in the CN Tower today."
"They reportedly undid their safety gear after being assured by the one known as "mage" that he had cast levitation on them.
Okay I know what the CN tower is but what's the walk.
Mike Blais god damn you you're coming to this if anyone is.
It looks like so much fun though!
oh i thought you meant the walk up all the fucking stairs thing.
NOPE
this is the beginning of every fucking horror movie why would we want to do this
i'm gonna walk in and everyone's gonna be like "hey who ordered the SHRIMP"
that joke's funny 'cause i'm allergic to shellfish
because we're not a bunch of college aged kids who are going to get drunk and unprotected sex.
Most of us are adults, who will get drunk and then probably be too shy to have drunken unprotected sex.