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What: Tampa2, a Wikipedia meetup
When: Saturday, January 14, 2006, 3:00 PM
Where: 4th Street Panera Bread in St. Petersburg (1914 4th St N, St Petersburg, FL - the same location as the first tampa meetup)
Who: As of this writing, Jimbo Wales, Angela, Raul654, and Maveric149 have all said they will be attending. Danny (who now works for Jimbo, but is paid by the Foundation) will probably be in attending. All others are welcome.

This meetup will occur the day before Wikipedia's 5th anniversary.

Attendance edit

Angela
Cognition
The Power of Reason
D. Sergeev
Danny
Dominick
Encyclopedist
Googie man (Terry Foote)
Jimbo Wales and family
Laurapinto
Maveric149
Michael Davis
Mindspillage
Notafish (Delphine)
Raul654 and Gwen (Non-wikipedian)
Soufron
Stef - application developer for Wikipedia content from England
Snowspinner
Trödel
TimShell

Post meetup edit

Nice to have met you all! Dominick ^(TALK) 23:00, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Me, too!!! ε γκυκλοπαίδεια* 23:32, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Me, three!!! Laura Pinto 01:59, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - it was well worth the drive from Orlando Trödeltalk 20:25, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I couldn't make it... I thought about it, but ultimately decided against the nearly four hour drive each way to get there from Boca Raton. *Dan T.* 02:22, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
D'oh, I forgot about it... tregoweth 06:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Damnit. I was in the edit suite anyway, but still... damnit. :-{ --Baylink 02:24, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to Mark for posting these pictures - can't wait until the next meetup. Trödel•talk 04:14, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- You're welcome. Also, you might find this amusing. From user talk:Jimbo Wales:

Sorry about my shouting friend at Panera today. She knew I wrote for Wikipedia and we noticed the meet-up going on, and then as we were leaving you passed by and I noted it to her. She, to take revenge for my shouting at a professor of hers a couple weeks ago to embarass her, decided to put me on the spot by calling yours and then ducking away. She found it funny, but I felt an explanation desirable.

Yours,

Wally 21:20, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dude, it was very very funny as a matter of fact. You should have popped in for the meetup. Anyway the woman I was walking with was a reporter for the New York Times and now I'm sure she thinks that I'm much more of a celebrity than I actually am. This was the first time anyone ever randomly recognized me on the street.--Jimbo Wales 08:48, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ha! Now that'll be a funny postscript to the anecdote — I'll have to search the Times for that article. If it gets you good press, you can always remember me the next time an ArbCom seat opens up. ;) In any case, it was good almost meeting you. Wally 08:58, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]