At 12:30 AM -0800 2/21/00, Tom Vogt wrote:
>Greg Broiles wrote:
>> What's funny is that the physical meetings in the SF Bay Area have been
>> much better lately - their content is considerably more interesting than
>> most list traffic.
>
>I've been wondering about that ever since - can one be a cypherpunk
>without being in SF? me being in germany, I would have a hard time
>attending any bay area meetings, even occasionally. :-/
So why don't you organize others in Germany? Plenty of hacker types in Europe.
Before we organized gatherings in the SF Bay Area/Silicon Valley, there
were of course no such meetings.
At one time there were fairly active groups in Boston/Cambridge and
Washington, D.C. We once had a interesting DES-encrypted 3-way
teleconference between the three meetings.
Folks in San Diego were meeting for a while. There have been activities in
Austin, Texas and parts of Colorado, too. And L.A. had a small activity at
one time...I even made it to one of the L.A. meetings.
There are obvious advantages to being in the Bay Area, as most of the
crypto companies are located here. And there are tens of thousands of
programmers and suchlike folks to draw from. But there is no reason smaller
groups cannot form in other areas...all it takes is will and some
announcements. Even a small turnout is not too bad, as smaller discussion
groups are often better, anyway.
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
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