Do you think we could manage an Australian confluence?

weemac · Post by **weemac** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:02 pm

I wonder if we could get it together?

Just thinking aloud...

emac.

jps · Post by **jps** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:46 pm

I think if you provide enough beer, no problem!

antipodean · Post by **antipodean** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:14 pm

Ah, the tyranny of distance is a bit of a killer, given the scattering of the Oz forumites across this wide brown land, but the lure of a free beer (or fourteen) as Jeff suggests might just be the ticket to engender interest.

I feel sheepish that I haven't met any of the Sydney RRF crowd....

Life (family, work and friends) just seems to get in the way.

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:21 pm

Quite a few members hail from Melbourne.............so yes I bet you could. IIRC it's been done before to some degree.

jps · Post by **jps** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:26 pm

Distance shouldn't be too much of an issue; we have had lots of confluences where folks traveled millions, er, thousands of miles

to get here. It just takes commitment and planning ahead enough to get people to take vacation time to make it happen.

jps · Post by **jps** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:27 pm

I bet even Aitch would come back to Oz for it.

8mileshigher · Post by **8mileshigher** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:41 pm

jps wrote:I bet even Aitch would come back to Oz for it.

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:49 pm

jps wrote:I bet even Aitch would come back to Oz for it.

That might be a bit of a stretch............it's winter in Oz.

paologregorio · Post by **paologregorio** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:20 pm

jps wrote:Distance shouldn't be too much of an issue; we have had lots of confluences where folks traveled millions, er, thousands of miles to get here. It just takes commitment and planning ahead enough to get people to take vacation time to make it happen.

Should prolly open up the jam segment with a rendition of the Plimsouls' "Million Miles Away" then. . .

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:01 am

antipodean wrote:Ah, the tyranny of distance is a bit of a killer, given the scattering of the Oz forumites across this wide brown land, but the lure of a free beer (or fourteen) as Jeff suggests might just be the ticket to engender interest.

I feel sheepish that I haven't met any of the Sydney RRF crowd.... Life (family, work and friends) just seems to get in the way.

I know what you mean Evan. Just to get people within the state of California (even some people who live reasonably close) to come to an event is as Paulie has deemed, "Worse than herding cats!"

weemac · Post by **weemac** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:48 pm

The large land area vs small population is an issue. We should have taken photos when Evan and I met as it would prove that there was at least an "Over the Mountains" miniminicon.....

Eden.

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:35 pm

weemac wrote:The large land area vs small population is an issue......

Eden.

Yep, you guys are almost as bad as Montana. You've got 2.8 people/square km whereas we've got 2.5. Of course, there are some populated places nearby, but most are about 1000 miles (1600km) away. I suppose I should set up a Montana Microcon, but I'd probably be the only one there...

Best of luck in setting up a get together down under!

jps · Post by **jps** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:51 pm

cjj wrote:I suppose I should set up a Montana Microcon, but I'd probably be the only one there...
:lol

Idaho is close enough, given the human fodder/land mass ratio.

We do have one forumite in Boise (that I know of).

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:42 am

OK, if Brian wants to drive 400 miles, then there will be 2 of us! Of course, before I moved last year it would have been 850 miles. There's an awful lot of nothing in Montana (well, except beautiful scenery)...

xpitt · Post by **xpitt** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:59 am

Ah, the tyranny of distance is a bit of a killer, given the scattering of the Oz forumites across this wide brown land..

IIRC the prices for inland flights are not so high as here in Europe ?
Aitch is coming back soon from SCARF - a true veteran! - , he will tell you guys how to get such an event together !

Wouldn't Ayers Rock be a fine location ?

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