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LCB’s third anniversary

Heather noted that most of the better attended meetups happened to be ones that I threw together. I think I just got volunteered for stuff.

Today’s third anniversary meetup turned out pretty well. Had about 20 bloggers and tweeters show up, possibly much to the dismay of the lone newbie waitress working the patio area who was expecting a slow evening. I was pleasantly surprised by the numbers that showed.

It’s always good to get together and I think everybody had a pretty good time.

Several #jaredrumours were being formulated.

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First Flush haul

Turned out to be a fantastic day for the First Flush Festival at the Charleston Tea Plantation. Met up with a few people from the photo meetup group and wandered around enjoying the festival and taking pictures.

Large oak tree branches arching over a roadway to the Charleston Tea Plantation
A field of tea shrubs

This is what I came back with

A stack of tins of different types of tea from the Charleston Tea Plantation

A tin of green tea, two peach and two of the First Flush to resupply my stock from last year.

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3 years of meetup-ing

Hard to believe, but May 16 will make it 3 years now since the inaugural Lowcountry Bloggers meetup (yes Chuck, I know you and Joan and a couple others met up before that).

From that very first meetup at Toucan Reef (now called Harbor Grille), the Lowcountry blogging community has grown from a few dozen blogs to well over 400 that are being rounded up and aggregated at lowcountrybloggers.com and lowcountryblogroll.com. It’s a community that’s grown to encompass not just bloggers, but Twitter users and just about every other social web thing out there.

Doesn’t seem like it’s been only three years. I feel like I’ve known the people I’ve met through LCB a lot longer than three years. I’ve met a lot of really great people through their blogs (and tweets), and being able to meet them in person has been pretty awesome.

To celebrate the occasion, I’ve checked with Harbor Grille to make sure their patio will be available and they’ve said it should be no problem. So join me and a few others returning to the scene of the crimewhere Dan helped kick everything off.

Oh, and don’t feel like you have to be a blogger to join in. Come hang out with us even if you’re a non-blogger. We don’t bite (pretty sure most of us don’t anyway).

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Dead pixels

This is the Encore in Las Vegas. Seeing this reminded me of the dead pixel in Google Earth photo

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Southeast LinuxFest rolling along

There’s still time to register for Southeast LinuxFest. Space at the Comfort Inn, the offical SELF hotel, is running low but there are still rooms in the SELF block available.

The list of speakers includes notable names from Zenoss, Google, Redhat, Fedora, Digium and others. There will also be breakout sessions that will cover topics of interest to anybody involved in using open source. Whether you’re a hardcore Linux/Opensource geek or new to the whole opensource world, SELF will have something for you. Check out the exhibitors to find out more about them or meet other like-minded users and see what they’re doing with Linux/OSS.

SELF is free to attend, but if you register as a paid supporter, you’ll also get the spiffy SELF shirt.

Southeast LinuxFest, June 13, Clemson, SC