Calling all Angelenos and Southern California pEEple!

Let’s mEEt at Philippes, The Original French Dip Sandwich shop for lunch on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 12:30 pm for lunch. (I put the ending time at 2:30, but only because the form asked me to.)

We’ll meet upstairs (where my friend tells me it’s quiet), assuming that no other large group gets dibs on the upstairs room. Backup plan: meet in back room where the train museum is (near the restrooms).

Philippe’s is in downtown L.A., in walking distance of Union Station

Philippe The Original
1001 N. Alameda St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

1 block N of Union Station, Olvera St. and Hollywood 101 freeway at the corner of Alamada and Ord St.

According to other groups that meet there (Drupal), Philippe’s hosts a WiFi network.

Google Map

Be Green and work while commuting (got EE and MAMP/WAMP and laptop?) on the way TO and FROM if you take rail transport to Union Station.

Metro Light Rail: Metro Gold Line, Purple Line or Red Lines go to Union Station.

MetroLink Commuter Train schedules to get to Union Station from Orange County, Antelope Valley, San Bernardino. Or, look at the MetroLink Weekend Summary Schedule

Edited to add: Plan on coming? Post a message here!

So how do I sign up for the Phillipe’s meetup?  It doesn’t look like there is any mechanism for signing up (no link for a signup) in this post.—Peter

I think you just did! Hm. mebbe I should edit original post to say, Plan to come? Post a message here!

Thanks. I’ll be there. Then go to MOCA afterwards, maybe. By the way, if anyone else is in Santa Monica, it is very easy to get to Union Station on the Santa Monica #10 bus to downtown L.A.

I’m in. Let’s start a wish list for topics to address for this mEEtup or for future gatherings.

Topics I had in mind:

Intro: Who and Where I am. How I’m using EE.
My strong suits (front end? custom php coding? Server this? Look and Feel that?)
My current challenges.. what I’m trying to do, direction/areas I’d like to learn.
Opportunities to collaborate.
Biz Practices
Tips and Tricks and in-person demos I’d like to see or I’d like to give (the forum is splendid, but F2F and sharing screen time is better!)
Do we want to do this again? If so, how often?

...that’s for starters!

p.s. I’ve been searching through the EE member database under ‘ca’ and finding people in SoCal. Will send out more notices later today after my 24-hour max private message limit has expired. For some reason, EE thinks I might be spamming. But I’m not!

Awesome! it’s about time Southern Cali. peeps got together. I’ll see you guys there!

Yay there is more than 2 people from SoCal.
Thanks Susan

Just got back in town and got the message. I will also attend.

Oh no, why couldn’t it have been last weekend when I was in town?  Missed it by a whisker.  Have fun!

Doh. Sorry, last minute drama and i’ll be unable to attend tomorrow. I do hope we have another one. Some please post so i know what I missed. Thanks!

Bummer about the timing, Hop Studios. And gr00vy0ne, sorry you won’t be able to make it. Here’s hoping that we do have more than one meeting.

SO! The rest of you, I’ll see you tomorrow!!! I’m going to get there a little early and stake out the place. I’ll be wearing a black hat and will finagle some way of identifying us as the EE group.

I’ll be there too - coming from the OC!

Susan - 14 January 2010 08:52 PM

I think you just did! Hm. mebbe I should edit original post to say, Plan to come? Post a message here!

I’m sorry that I could NOT make it.  The storms flooded the electrical system of the building in which I work, and we were out a day and a half.  I needed to come in on the weekend to make up the work that I was unable to do during the outage.

Sorry.  Maybe next time.

Hello All,

Sorry I couldn’t make it. Had some minor flooding in our first floor condo. Hope you all are doing this again!

BJ

How did it go?
When is the next meeting? Would love to come.

couldn’t make either. wondering if there is going to be another meet up soon.

Just heard of this event at EECI in SF.  A bit late but please add my name to any future communications about SoCal events!

The tentative plans for “the next time around” were to host the meetup at the location/offices of one person, and to have an appointed person do a walk and talk through the back end of a website to discuss “how I/we solved this particular problem.”

So, it looks like it’s time to nudge people in this thread to see if…

—you’re willing to host the next meeting

—you’ve got a site or an issue that you want to show and tell.

Any takers?