<div dir="ltr">OH and I forgot to mention, Vancouver is so awesome, and I have a colleague who can tell you all about it. She's from Vancouver. I've only been once, but holy crap you're gonna have a blast. I did. I'll go ask her if I can put you guys in touch.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Chad Cassady <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chad.cassady@gmail.com" target="_blank">chad.cassady@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>What're you into for fun? You a musician? Mojam Mondays at the Nectar in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle is amazing, even if you just enjoy live music.<br><br></div>LoveCityLove is another musical thing that goes on on Capitol Hill on Wednesday nights, an open jam session that tends to be pretty awesome. I haven't checked it out in awhile -- they fired my close friend, who was their music director, right when funding came out and everyone was about to finally get a salary. It was a punch in the gut to all of us who had volunteered our time helping to build it. But it's still a great time, and that's cool.<br><br></div>What kind of experiences are you looking to have with your stay in Seattle? What's your budget? Two places I think are cool: The Marqueen Hotel, which is super rad and the rooms have little kitchens and stuff (it was converted from old apartments), but is expensive -- around $300 a night. The Green Tortoise hostel downtown is your standard hip-traveling-kids hostel experience with all the amenities.<br><br></div>I live in Tacoma in a 4-bedroom house with two roommates, and if you're looking to save a little money you're welcome to crash with us. We're, as the other Tacoma dwellers mentioned, a quick 50-minute bus ride from the city, but Tacoma's got a great scene of its own. With Tacoma, it's more about the people than the places (though there is always a good band playing at the New Frontier).<br><br></div>Thank you for waking this group up! SPUG helped me break into the industry; Perl was my first language.<br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Blibbet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blibbet@gmail.com" target="_blank">blibbet@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 04/20/2016 08:35 AM, Fred Morris wrote:<br>
> * I went to bsides in Redmond this year; that was fun.<br>
</span><span>> * Have gone to the South Sound Hackers meetup.<br>
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</span>If you care for either of those, try Redmond-based hackerspace Black<br>
Lodge Research, BlackLodgeResearch.org. Unscheduled Open Hack Nights<br>
Thursdays 7pm, and often monthly DC206 (local DEF CON community) Meeting<br>
one Sunday/month. Bsides Seattle organizers are BLR regulars. Community<br>
hangs out on DC206.org-hosted mailing list.<br>
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UW's Capture-the-Flag team, Batman's Kitchen, has a public mailing list,<br>
and their weekly training events are open to the public.<br>
Infosec-centric. Kindof like a weekly bsides each quarter.<br>
<a href="https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uwctf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uwctf</a><br>
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> * Started a Internet Security, Politics and Data meetup, but it never<br>
> caught on.<br>
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</span>Try TA3M Seattle, Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays. Takes place on 3rd<br>
Mondays, most months, usually at UW CSE bldg. Nice cross-section of<br>
multiple activist-centric groups, ACLU-WA and other political-centric<br>
speakers most focusing on technology (often secure communications,<br>
etc.). They also host a few cryptoparties/year, usually also on 3rd<br>
Mondays.<br>
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Also look into Seattle Privacy Coalition, SeattlePrivacy.org. Very<br>
involved with privacy/security-centric politics for <a href="http://seattle.gov" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">seattle.gov</a>. Some<br>
overlap between TA3M Seattle and SPC.<br>
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