Boland Meetup for Stellenbosch and Somerset West - 15th October 2014
So there seem to be a significant number of interested parties in the Stellenbosch and Somerset West areas and a regular, more informal, meetup in the time between the CT meetups was mentioned. I propose the following:
Date: 15 October
Time: 18:30 till late
Venue: The Thirsty Scarecrow (on the R44 between Stellenbosch and SW)
Map:: http://bit.ly/thirstyscarecrow
The idea is just to have a chilled get-together (no talks or anything formal) as an opportunity to hang out with local devs that aren't in the CT area (although everyone is welcome of course). The idea is not to try and split the CT meetup, but rather to augment it with an additional opportunity to mingle. We can see how this goes and adjust accordingly for the future.
I'm looking for the following response: Are you interested? Does the proposed time/date/venue sound good? General thoughts?
Date: 15 October
Time: 18:30 till late
Venue: The Thirsty Scarecrow (on the R44 between Stellenbosch and SW)
Map:: http://bit.ly/thirstyscarecrow
The idea is just to have a chilled get-together (no talks or anything formal) as an opportunity to hang out with local devs that aren't in the CT area (although everyone is welcome of course). The idea is not to try and split the CT meetup, but rather to augment it with an additional opportunity to mingle. We can see how this goes and adjust accordingly for the future.
I'm looking for the following response: Are you interested? Does the proposed time/date/venue sound good? General thoughts?
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I'll be back from a wedding in Durban on the 14 th so I should be ready and thirsty.
I will be away from 10 - 14 Oct.
More time to build friendships can only be a good thing!
@Denzil: It's just down the road ;)
So I had a thought: what if we have an optional discussion topic? The idea is basically just to have a pre-determined talking point: if you feel like it, you can read any background info you feel is necessary, and if you don't have something else you'd like to chat about at the meetup, you can pull this out. No preparation is required, but there's potentially a discussion topic where everyone has already had some time to think about it.
To get things started, I propose the following topic (other suggestion are welcome): "How do you create a sustainable indie game dev startup?" aka "I want to make games and not starve at the same time."
Like @Boysano said, don't forget about it, only two sleeps now!
I've also edited the OP with a Google Maps link in case anyone needs it.
I shall leave this here: a little discussion I found, related to some of the meetup discussion: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/227635/Indie_economics_A_discussion_on_sustainable_business_models.php
Hope there is another one lined up :)
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Interesting to hear how each one is approaching game dev currently.
@JustPlainInsane will be good to see you there as well next time.