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Northern germany Torque user meeting?

Name:	Martin Schultz
Date Posted:	May 18, 2006
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I'm just wondering if there's interest in organizing a local Torque user meeting in northern germany for artists, developers, sound engineers etc. to exchange experiences, build local teams, show your work and schmooze a bit. If there's interest, I'll start organizing a room to meet in Hamburg.

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Berndt (starvanger) Garbotz (May 18, 2006 at 07:34 GMT)

Hello Martin,

would be interesting to join from Berlin.

Regards

Berndt

Mathias Stolley (May 18, 2006 at 09:05 GMT)

I will come too !

Mathias from Hamburg

Martin Schultz (May 18, 2006 at 09:37 GMT)

Hey, 2 already is nice! Do we get more? :-)

Robert Norris (May 18, 2006 at 09:37 GMT)

Great idea. It would be good to here what others are doing with Torque. A little networking can't be bad.
The occasional meeting in Berlin would be good (Hi Berndt!).

Rob

Stefan Beffy Moises (May 18, 2006 at 09:40 GMT)

Hm, Hamburg is still a bit far for me... how about Munich or Nuernberg? ;)

Martin Schultz (May 18, 2006 at 09:49 GMT)

@Stefan: Aren't you sometimes in Hamburg to help Dieter? :-)

Stefan Beffy Moises (May 18, 2006 at 09:51 GMT)

Hm, that may indeed be the case... we'll see, maybe we could arrange something :)
Any date planned yet?

Martin Schultz (May 18, 2006 at 10:06 GMT)

No, no date planned so far. I first want to check the demand and if we have more than let's say 5 or 6 people willing to join I'm going to start planing the event.

Hey, that would be cool to have the first german Torque networking event. Maybe we would get some support from GG with some stickers or so :-)

Diesel (May 18, 2006 at 12:42 GMT)

Why would you want to limit it to torque?

Martin Schultz (May 18, 2006 at 12:51 GMT)

Because for general game development meetings we have a more or less regular IGDA chapter meeting already, but nothing Torque specific.

Alex (Stalker) Sakablukow (May 18, 2006 at 14:36 GMT)

Hamburg, maybe at one of WM-Days? ^^ *g*

Alex (Stalker) Sakablukow (May 18, 2006 at 14:37 GMT)

Quote:

Why would you want to limit it to torque?

good idea, but then its a wrong forum to get a little gamedev-meeting ;)

Martin Schultz (May 18, 2006 at 15:02 GMT)

@Alex: Definately not at the WM days!
Reason 1: No room to rent anywhere.
Reason 2: Noone would attend...
:-)

Martin Schultz (May 18, 2006 at 20:16 GMT)

Just a quick poll:

Shall we do the meeting on a saturday or during the week?

Mike Kuklinski (May 18, 2006 at 20:27 GMT)

Ich werde kommen, ob ich in Deutschland wohnte. Unfortunately, my German sucks and I don't live in Germany :).
Edited on May 18, 2006 20:27 GMT

Martin Schultz (May 18, 2006 at 21:03 GMT)

I made an annoucement post in the Hamburg local chapter IGDA forum here (in german):
http://www.igda.org/Forums/showthread.php?s=da755a4137c5e75d84df105a7237c194&...
Edited on May 18, 2006 21:04 GMT

Stefan Lundmark (May 18, 2006 at 21:11 GMT)

Would this be exclusive to Germans or could other nationalities join, too?

Martin Schultz (May 19, 2006 at 05:36 GMT)

Open to anyone, Stefan. You're welcome.

Martin Schultz (May 19, 2006 at 05:50 GMT)

Annoucement in the german USF developer forum:
http://www.usf3.de/forum/showthread.php?p=77151#post77151
Edited on May 19, 2006 05:51 GMT

Martin Schultz (May 19, 2006 at 05:52 GMT)

@Mike K.: Where do you live? Have you lived here in Germany? You're welcome to join :-)

Alex (Stalker) Sakablukow (May 19, 2006 at 07:34 GMT)

Quote:

@Alex: Definately not at the WM days!
Reason 1: No room to rent anywhere.
Reason 2: Noone would attend...
:-)

ok, you'r right, but summer is still a good time to meeting somewhere ;)

A extra forum/thread to organisate this were nice.. i can ask a vew more game programmers/artists.. ;)

Martin Schultz (May 19, 2006 at 08:38 GMT)

@Alex: Right, something is needed. I'm going to create a mini-site for it, but it will take two weeks or so as I'm going on vacation for a week on sunday. Meanwhile I'm preparing a little document for organizing an event.

Alexander Bierbrauer (May 19, 2006 at 10:39 GMT)

wargh, why in northern germany ? ;) Why not in the middle ?? I'm from Saarbr

Martin Schultz (May 19, 2006 at 10:54 GMT)

Quite simple... because I live here :-)

Mike Kuklinski (May 20, 2006 at 03:49 GMT)

Pay for the trip from the USA to Germany, and I'll show up! :)

Christian S (May 24, 2006 at 14:27 GMT)

As Hamburg is just a couple of hours down the highway, I might attend too (and if time and circumstances allow, bring along some more of our team)

Btw: Im from Aarhus in denmark.

Stefan Beffy Moises (Jun 02, 2006 at 22:29 GMT)

Hi Martin, any date planned yet? :)

Martin Schultz (Jun 05, 2006 at 08:31 GMT)

Not yet. Currently we're trying to find a bar/room for the meeting which is free of charge. Tom, who is a colleque of me, tries to find a bar at the Reeperbahn (the world famous redlight district in Hamburg) which we could get for free for the afternoon. Not an easy task.

As soon as I have more information I'll post it here. Stay tuned.

Alex (Stalker) Sakablukow (Jun 30, 2006 at 10:57 GMT)

any news here?

Martin Schultz (Jun 30, 2006 at 12:45 GMT)

Not yet. I'm still talking to some people trying to get a room for free to avoid big costs. As soon as I have news, I'll post it here.

Martin Schultz (Jul 11, 2006 at 11:41 GMT)

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