The l33t We-dislike-Terrorists Super-Spiffy HA-we-can-do-it-too US meeting!
 

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In the Netherlands, many, often international, meetings have been held with success.

The Americans keep talking about wanting meetings. So, do something. Start organizing the meeting. I'm starting the organizing by starting this topic, to talk about it.
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List
East Coast
Teh Broadway Part (North)
Bobby (New Jersey)
Slim (New Jersey)

Middle
Beauman (California)

Teh Arr, let's shoot some indinians! Part (South)
jadda jadda lots of people

West Coast
Teh HERE-CANADIANS-CAN-COME-TOO Part (North)
Trafton (Alaska)

Middle

Teh Schwarzunegger Ist Cool Part (South)

Teh TRAFTON WANTS IT CHEESY MIDDLE
yadda

I AM CANADIAN
Coppertop
Poison IvEE
Evilmike

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There is the problem that the US alone is like, bigger than all of Europe.

What seperates the Teh Broadway Part and Teh Arr Let's shoot some indians part?

go new jersey. madnortheast side.

That's why it's smart if everyone would add himself to the list and put the state he wants to organize in and/or lives behind his name.

One is North, the other is South. Might not be easy for Florida people to go to New York and vice versa.

I mean what latitude seperates them?

Don't ask me. I just thought up some stupid names. Feel free to copy and paste the list as I said and add your own name to it and change the names of the headers to North and South

Hmm...the list is okay, but you forgot the midwest. From what I see, the following states have a notable number of Jazzers (included are number of people who would fall into that category):
- California (Southwest)
- Kentucky (Southeast)
- Maryland (Northeast)
- Minnesota (Midwest)
- New Jersey (Northeast)
- New York (Northeast)
- Ohio (Midwest)
- Tennessee (Southeast)
- Texas (South)
- Washington (Northwest)
- Wisconsin (Midwest)

The problem I mostly see is that there are a lot of Jazzers coming from California, and less so from New Jersey, but still a lot. There is not much else out there other than California with many Jazzers, except for Washington; Oregon and Arizona have very few, and the Rocky Mountain states have nearly none. Here are states with a lesser number, but still some:
- Alabama (Southeast)
- Arizona (Southwest)
- Delaware (Northeast)
- Florida (Southeast)
- Georgia (Southeast)
- Idaho (Northwest)
- Illinois (Midwest)
- Kansas (Midwest)
- Louisiana (South)
- Maine (Northeast)
- Massachusetts (Northeast)
- Michigan (Midwest)
- Nebraska (Midwest)
- New Hampshire (Northeast)
- New Mexico (Southwest)
- North Carolina (East)
- Pennsylvania (Northeast)
- Virginia (East)

Which leaves the following states with very few:
- Alaska (Completely unconnected)
- Arkansas (Midwest)
- Colorado (Rocky Mountains)
- Connecticut (Northeast)
- Hawaii (Completely unconnected)
- Indiana (Midwest)
- Iowa (Midwest)
- Mississippi (South)
- Missouri (Midwest)
- Montana (Rocky Mountains)
- Nevada (Rocky Mountains)
- North Carolina (East)
- North Dakota (North)
- Oklahoma (South)
- Rhode Island (Northeast)
- South Carolina (East)
- Utah (Rocky Mountains)
- Vermont (Northeast)
- West Virginia (East)

Basically, the thing is that most of the people in the JJ2 community live east of the Mississippi, but there are a lot of people out west in California, and less notably Washington and the southwest. It is likely that most of the players in the midwest would go to the eastern meeting if it was somewhere like New Jersey, while those in Texas might go either way. Jazz 2 players around Vancouver would definitely go to the west one, while those around Toronto, probably east. There are more Jazz 2 players overall in the east and, all things considered, the west meeting in the Rocky Mountains areas to accomidate the midwesterners is not necessarily a great idea. The Rocky Mountains are not exactly highly populated. The other question is where to meet for the westerners? San Francisco, California might end up being a good midpoint. The easterners might meet somewhere like New York City.

EDIT: Having North and South would be sort of odd...if northwesterners had to go to the northeast it would be more driving because the U.S. is longer than it is tall. Besides, the midpoint for northerners would be *shudder* North Dakota or so, and southerners would be *shudder* around Texas...

~ Traft

I actually thought about northeasterners going to the northeastern meeting and southeasterners going to the southeastern one. Or to the one above or under them, ie north and south. I thought about just splitting the thing in 4 parts so we could get a global vision of where everyone lived, *after* that we could decide on meetings.

That said, why don't you guys just copy and paste the fricking list and add yourself? :P

Northeast
BlurredD (New York?)
Bobby (New Jersey)
Brian (New York)
DarkShadow (Pennsylvania)
Dreama (Pennsylvania)
Ducky (New Hampshire?)
ElectroPiZZa (New Jersey)
Freelance (New York)
JJ Tublear (Delaware)
KRSplat (Maryland)
Labratkid (New York)
Nova (Pennsylvania)
Paul (Massachusetts)
Radium (Maryland)
Salamander (New York)
Slim (New Jersey)
Spazzyman (Maryland)
Syntax (New Hampshire)
Xeno (Pennsylvania)

Southeast
MadRabb (Florida)
Scizor CT (Tennessee)
Shorty (Louisiana)

Northwest
Anaiyu (California)
Black Ninja (Washington)
Boarder FoR (Washington)
Cobra (Idaho)
FoD (Washington)
Hare (Oregon)
Hugela (California)
iCeD (California)
KJAZZ (California)
Monolith (Washington)
Trafton (Washington)
VelKasha (California)
Violet (California)

Southwest
Batty Buddy (California)
Beauman (California)
FireSworD (New Mexico)
Infinite Spaz (New Mexico)
Queen Liz (Arizona)

Midwest
Captain Spam (Michigan)
Derby (Illinois)
Fôx (Colorado)
GenEX (Nebraska)
Kaz (Texas)
Ninja (Ohio)
N0B0DY (Colorado)
Noogy (Colorado)
Ryoushi (Indiana)
Spazboy (Texas)
Spaztic (Ohio)
VashTheStampede (Minnesota)
Wakeman (Minnesota?)
Wild Angel (Texas)
Xion (Wisconsin)

Canadians
4I Falcon (Ontario)
Blackraptor (Ontario)
Coppertop (Ontario)
EvilMike (British Columbia)
Fireball (Ontario)
Ice M A N (Nova Scotia)
Iam Canadian (Alberta)
Kaven (Alberta)
KILLERRABBIT (Ontario)
Link (Alberta)
MidN/Chimaera (Ontario?)
MR MAGOO (Ontario)
Poison IvEE (?)
Spotty (British Columbia)
Teej (Ontario)
Tyf (Quebec)
URJazz (British Columbia)
VeggieMan (Ontario)

Heh, my uncle lives in New Jersey... Wheeeee :D

I'm Canadian, from Ontario

Wait... we must ship Bjarni here!

I think grouping all the Canadians together doesn't make sense. The distance between western and eastern Canada is greater than the distance between western and eastern US.

Here's some more Canadians though:

URJazz (British Columbia)
Iam Canadian (Alberta)
Kaven (Alberta)

And I believe Ice M A N lives in Nova Scotia.

Yeah, I'm in good ol' Ontario.

Shipping Bjarni here might be fun, but it also involves keeping him under control.

One of us has to put these all on a map; a nice visual representation.

Anyone ever notice none of the smilies in the "buddy" icon are smiling?

I'll organize JJM Central. We will be meeting at Elitch Gardens in downtown Denver.

Maybe I'm getting a little ahead of myself, but I would do it.

Colorado anyone?

Ooh... I might be able to get Noogy to come. I just have to find a time to ask him.

Ohio Represent

I took the list Trafton made, and a map I stole from somewhere on the internet, and attempted to plot them all geographically.

Here's what I came up with:


I don't know where exactly people are within some states, so those I just placed somewhere in the middle. You see this especially in Canada. :P (Those people in middle of Canada are the unlocated ones.)

I'll probably continue to update this image as I get more information.

Neat idea, Mono! If only i could see it! (Image gives me a lovely red X :p) Just so you can get my location precise, I live really close to Ottawa, Ontario.

EDIT: Problem with image has been fixed :D

Please don't talk about him like this. Pretty harsh. :/

Canadia is part of the U.S.A., right?

Put a little dot in the middle of Southern Ontario for me. ;P

No, Canada is that country to the north that the US tries to deny the existance of.

You believe correctly. And of course NS isn't even on that map Mono has. ;p

I wanna go. *bawl* :(

I live near Toledo, Ohio. That is to say, the tip of Lake Erie on the border of Michigan and Ohio. KTHX

Hey, Ice M A N is in NS? I lived there for a year ... last year. Southern Ontario now.

Hey, how come the Yukon's not on that map? It does too exist, I lived there for fourteen years!

I'm the only Jazzer in Louisiana...hehe, I feel special. Or rather, really really lame.

Anyway, this would be really really really great if it could happen. Like, REALLY. I personally would find it easier to go to someplace in the Northeast but like I said, I'm the only one in Lousiana anyway.

Hey, we should just plan everyone come here because then it would be equally hard and difficult for everyone, well...except me. The map idea was a good idea Mono. Rockin'.

The map was a pretty generic idea. I had thought of making this a few times before. You just happened to mention it in this thread, Radium. The same thread that gave me a good listing of where everybody is.

If someone wants to find me a better map, feel free. :P I was just looking for something mostly plain and clean so I could draw on it.

ME = minnesota, no need for question mark.

Two dots in Ohio.

One for me(south), one for Spaztic(north).

thxplzyes ;=)

so how exactly would this meeting take place?

with the u.s. having alot of spread out people and all.

A couple more for your list...

Admael (Midwest/Eastern USA, last time I checked)
Axie (Canada)


I don't know everyone in the community particularly well, so that's about all the other names I can provide you with. And just to let you know... Fresno is not really that "south", seeing that I passed *somewhat* close to there recently. Hey, whatever floats your boat. All hail the, ah, EAST COAST MIDDLE CALIFORNIANS! ;-P

As far as a possible USWest convention, my parent(s) and I could most likely help a lot with organizing one in my area (San Francisco, preferably), even if they have never heard of half of you folks. However, the chances of me attending the convention are somewhat low, because I am rather reclusive and mostly unavailable besides the fact that the only people I would actually be interested in seeing are PiZZa, Trafton, and Nova.

Anyway, whatever. Good times.


~evilvlek


edit: Grammar. What the heck happened to my grammar? ;-)

Which I'll take as a cue to not come visiting you.


Good luck, all, and everything. I doubt I'll attend unless it's held extremely close to where I live, but my heart will go on or something.

It's nearly impossible to have everyone come to one meeting, but what if there were several meetings in different areas at the same time? Then we could have webcams and stuff to make it seem all together.

So you would organize one in your area but not go to it? That's not really logical. I would think it's a missed opportunity, even if the people you want to see might not be there.

Fquist, I wasn't being mean to him. I was just saying that it's very hard to keep autistic people under control. One of my neighbors has it and requires an adult with him at all times at school.

Labratkid, autism is typically not something that requires restraint among high-functioning autistics. Being that Bjarni has learned a foreign language and speaks fluently, one would assume that he would be fairly high-functioning. As such, it is doubtful that he would require such restraint; mostly that only applies to profoundly autistic people.

/offtopic

~ Traft

Believe it or not, I'm kind of... ah... antisocial offline. It's rather odd, seeing that I enjoy talking to people, but being around them for too long tends to really get me nervous and agitated for seemingly no reason at all. I'm a little psychotic at best, if not paranoid. Yes, I will organize something, but will not attend it; I have done such things before without missing out on anything. ;-P

And Unknown, you live in Santa Cruz, right? I could probably come by one of these days, if your parents don't mind. =)

I wonder why so many people took me seriously there. It's not like I hate everyone...


~evilvlek

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