[sdiy] A Central Atlantic Synth Meeting?

[Glen]

At 08:37 PM 9/29/04 , john mahoney wrote:

>Sure! Are you talking about Synth DIY or a more general Analogue
>Heaven meeting?

Synth-DIY would be especially nice, but it certainly wouldn't have to be
only for the hardcore DIY crowd.


>I would be interested in meeting in early 2005. Forget about this
>year, as I'll barely have time to finish some projects before the
>holiday season hits.

Yes, sometime next year. It will give everyone plenty of time to plan
things. I get the impression that you're in Florida yourself. You might not
want to plan this for the winter months, because we have this crazy little
thing called 'snow' in the northern states, and it might prevent some of
the more northern people from driving to the event.   :)  

If it were to be held in Florida, or anywhere on the actual eastern
coastline, we probably want to avoid hurricane season as well.


>How about next February in Orlando? We could converge at the Keyboard
>Museum </assumption>. Maybe a few Northerners would come down to
>escape from the cold, and their families could spend the day with
>Mickey and Minnie while we make noises; perhaps the synths will make
>noises, too.

The keyboard museum sounds really cool, and the climate in your area is
good, but you're not exactly centrally located.  That should be taken into
consideration. I don't suppose you could fit the keyboard museum into the
trunk of your car?  No?    :)


>Aside from Florida, I could be interested in Atlanta, Nashville, North
>Carolina (my wife has family there). If the weather is nice (Spring?),
>I might go to DC (I've got a brother there) or even to New York (I
>just love the city), although the farther the distance the less gear
>I'd likely bring.
>
>When and where were you thinking?

I wasn't thinking of a particular time or place yet. I was just hoping to
get some discussion started, and then hopefully we could all arrive at a
compromise that works well for the group.


later,
Glen