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March 27, 2006

Getting the ball rolling

Last September I whined that Blogotitlán was too big, geographically speaking.

Several of the commenters agreed with my original suggestion that we should find a time and place to meet up. EMC suggested South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin. As you may know, SXSW came and went yet we still haven’t gotten together. Several of us Cali folks still haven’t met each other. Gustavo and Nebur live only a few hours away, but I still haven’t had a chance to kick it with either one.

Last week, Oso tried to get the ball rolling again after checking out Gustavo’s latest post and the ensuing comments. So far, some of the Cali blogeros (me, Oso, HP, and Nebur) plus EMC are down. We want to see this happen, but we also want to see a lot of the other blogeros and blogeras whose words we’ve read for months/years come out to a meetup.

We’ve put together a survey to get more information on what would or would not work in terms of location and time. We hope that there will be a good number of people who will be able to make it and have people from different regions and host city involved in the planning.

Take the survey!

Filed under: Blog/tech | POSTED BY cindylu AT 1:04 pm | 11 Comments

11 Responses to “Getting the ball rolling”

  1. Alejandro Says:
    March 27th, 2006 at 3:54 pm

    You should all meet at Lollapalooza in Chicago. Manu Chao will be there to serenade :) . ciao

    © Citoyen du Monde Inc. 2006™

  2. Jason Says:
    March 27th, 2006 at 8:21 pm

    Hey, when your meetup is in place, will you keep me in the loop? I’d love to help out in any way I could and maybe attend if you’d have me.

  3. kelly Says:
    March 27th, 2006 at 10:06 pm

    You know that Nebur and I will pitch in if it is somewhere Central Valley-ish.
    :-)

  4. tumbleweed Says:
    March 28th, 2006 at 4:39 pm

    how exciting! props to those who’ve started the ball rolling ;)

  5. Cesar Says:
    March 29th, 2006 at 12:00 am

    Hey, PLT, remember that you and I talked about it and then I posted on Gustavo’s blog. It’s all you too, girl. What I’m wondering is that am I the only Tejano involved in this? It’s all California blogo-o-landia, pero where’s my gente Tejana?

  6. elenamary Says:
    April 6th, 2006 at 4:41 am

    Nahh you aren’t the only Tejano, EMC.

  7. tin Says:
    April 6th, 2006 at 9:04 am

    i said i go, how after the semester is over. i’m going to the border when the zapatistas are around, and wouldn’t mind stopping by in sout califaz

  8. Mayra Says:
    April 9th, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    Donde y cuando? I’ll be in Austin the weekend of April 30 or in NYC for a week starting June 27th. Si quieren venir al Valle yo puedo organizar algo. Puede ser en Brownsville o La Isla…hechar una visita a Matamoros…

  9. elenamary Says:
    May 7th, 2006 at 5:20 pm

    is there an update on this?

  10. Elenamary - de aquí y de allá » Blog Archive » Oh where have I been? Says:
    July 22nd, 2006 at 5:00 am

    […] El Oso complained that the blogs have been quiting down. At least our little clique of blogs. I wouldn’t know. For the most part I haven’t been reading blogs, I subscribe to about 167 rss feeds and am about ten thousand entries behind (give or take a few hundred) in my reading. I used to keep up daily with multiple newspapers, multiple blogs and multiple people in the real world. I am not keeping up with my real life friends, or even virtually by emailing them. I get emails with subject lines “please let me know you are alive” “please let me know you got this” and I almost never write back. These people are good to me, they deserve long emails, they deserve phone calls, they deserve visits. And so, I put off writing back until I can write them something long and good, which turns into me never emailing back. Charles will tell me when I am lying around feeling miserable for myself, why don’t you call so-so or go email fulana, or go hang out with fulanos. But I can’t because I am feeling sin ganas. What is it I am doing? I’m not sure. I talked with el Oso on the phone the other day and he said to me “I am surprised you are still in Ohio.” My thought was “I am disappointed in myself for still being in Ohio”, I feel like a failure. I am close to being done with these pre med sciences, less than a year to go. But what do I have to show for my life? I haven’t traveled recently and haven’t had the money too. I work a job that is a “just for now job”. You know the job you do until you reach your goal. I have to work while I am taking classes, and the state and federal government have cut off my financial aid because I have completed and petitioned all the credit hours needed for 150% of my degree. I work to pay for school and to live. Not anything left for fun or even basic things like a car. It sucks. I feel like a failure. At this point in my life I am just going, not going well, just going. And yet I still want so much. I want to go to med school. I want to have a car that doesn’t need repairs and whose insurance I can afford. I want to afford to pay rent on my own place—really I would like to buy my own place but that is SOOOOO not going to happen anytime soon. I want to start a family. I really want to start a family. I want to be a mother. What am I still doing in Ohio? Finishing these damn sciences. Almost finished. So close. Then what? I don’t know. Right now though I need to find an apartment and get paid more so I can afford it and buy a car. Posted In English, Personal on Saturday, July 22nd, 2006. comments […]

  11. aztlanisapen Says:
    August 15th, 2006 at 10:46 am

    ?Qué onda? Saludos from your friendly Chicano from Chicago, lost in México right now. Not really, just writing, studying. Tú sabes.

    Adios.

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