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Anyone? Starbucks, Four Seasons, etc. As big or as small as you want.

Let's see who is available then we will start talking dates and times.

There are a lot of Zeitgeist Movement members up in Austin that might be interested in meeting you.

I think we definitely need something planned around SXSW.

Great idea, SX is tons of fun.   8)

Let's sell a homebrew + tater tots for BTC1!   ;D

What's in it for me?

No, but really.  What do you hope to accomplish or discuss?  Just hang out?  I wonder if it's worth giving up any privacy for.

I'm also curious who is near Austin, though.

I'd be willing to make the trip from San Antonio as long as I'm available.

BTW, is this THE  Atlas?

Yep. Est. 2009.

I like things to be a gradual process. We discuss Bitcoin, events and just hang out at first. Then if our interests meet in a few places, we can possibly start something or help Bitcoin in some way.

Standard networking, if you will.

The Texas Bitcoin Foundation.

Founded by Trendon Shavers ?

Likewise. 

Can we get a tally of folks interested in a 1-hour (or so) coffee-shop meetup in Austin?

I can commit to being a possible maybe.

Seeing that OP is old, I'd still be interested in meeting up... I don't think anything was ever organized. There HAS to be more Bitcoiners than those that replied here in Austin!

Austin-ites welcome to attend the San Antonio meetup I just set up for Thursday, November 15th 7:00 PM: http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-San-Antonio/events/89960522/ 

90+ minute drive... and I get off at 6:00 PM  :(

The location is not set in stone. I'd be willing to move it to someplace a little more northerly, like maybe the Lion and Rose (http://www.thelionandrose.com/locations/forum.php). That should cut a good 20 minutes off your drive.

You were exactly right! Gmaps is estimating it take at ~70 minutes. I'm sure at 6 PM howerver that I will encounter some SERIOUS traffic leaving Austin.

I would love to have a meeting here in Austin, San Antonio during a weekday doesnt work with my work schedule   :-\ .

I'm not going to make it to SA tonight, but count me in for any Austin bitcoin meetups. I'm still relatively new to bitcoin, but I'm excited to learn more.

Fellow Austin / San Antonio Bitcoiners,

I was glad to find this thread as I'd also like to connect with the Bitcoin folks in the Austin / San Antonio area. May I suggest we meet half way in San Marcos at 7:30 p.m. at the Starbucks off Interstate 35 next week.

Address: 3939 IH-35 South #925 San Marcos, TX

As for what to discuss I'm most interested to plan a push for Bitcoin adoption by Startups at SXSW.

I've been talking to folks in the Bitcoin community and already Tony the CEO of Bitpay has agreed to come to SXSW and speak about Bitcoin. Here is a link to his recent talk at the Bitcoin conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH4rH6wu25U&t=180

I've got a software technology start up, "Engine Inc". (www.LDEngine.com) that is planning to begin accepting Bitcoin in March at the launch of our Beta at SXSW. I'd love to get a half dozen or dozen other start ups to announce their support for Bitcoin. For startups I think it makes amazing sense to give such a tech savvy and early adopter type community easy access to their new products.

Austin Startups Partnering With Bitcoin that type of headline event during SXSW.

I think we could get a lot of folks in the Bitcoin community excited about doing a big push a SXSW and use their help to find the event location, sponsors, speakers and more.

Private message me or respond to this thread if you are interested in organizing a great Bitcoin event for SXSW.

-DJohnston

I think talking about doing something at SXSW would be great, san marcos is still somewhat far

I'm still fairly new to the message board here, but I've been a proud owner of a few Bitcoins for a while.   Please let me know if y'all have an Austin meetup.  I would love to meet more local enthusiasts.

I do have a tiny little side business where I buy and sell gold.  Whenever I get nice items in, I offer them for sale in exchange for Bitcoin.  If you do have something at SXSW, I would love to put a plug in for my little operation also.

Thanks,

James

There is a meetup in Austin scheduled for April 16, 2013:

http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinCryptocurrency/Austin-TX/282741/

Awesome!  Ill try and make it!

Of course, the day after I leave Austin...

Nice, I'll be there probably.

I'm in Austin.

I don't think it's required, but RSVPing on the meetup page would be a big help - both for getting the space setup for the likely number of attendees and in promoting the meetup.  (I'm not the organizer - just an instigator who would like to see some more bitcoin activity locally)

wow, this is awesome

Did y'all notice that Austin has more people who have joined the meetup than for other US cities?  Maybe others are using a different venue to organize, but I'm still impressed with my town.  Austinites are with it!

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/04/austin-just-might-be-the-next-google-fiber-city-coy-announcement-suggests/

So close...yet so far away...

Just a reminder for everyone that the meetup is still happening one Tuesday.

http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinCryptocurrency/Austin-TX/282741/

See you there!

How did it go?

I think about 12 people showed up.  As you would expect from a bitcoin meetup, there was a very diverse mix of opinions and viewpoints in attendance.  It seems to have been a good launching point for some side projects, and I think there will likely be more general meetups too.

Is there a plan to have another Austin meetup?

There's one planned for Thursday: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinCryptocurrency/Austin-TX/937952/

I am going to do my best to attend this one.

Is this meet up group the same as the Lone Star Bitcoin Network group on Facebook?

I'm not familiar with that group.  It's possible there is overlap, but it's not the same group. 

It might be worth connecting with some of the organizers on that page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LoneStarBitcoinNetwork/ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/LoneStarBitcoinNetwork/)

How did the meetup on the 9th go?  I missed it again, but am still interested in future meetups. 

It was a smaller, more technical meetup.  There was a lot of discussion of some possible bitcoin projects/businesses, and a couple of us worked on some code to call various exchange APIs to get current BTC/LTC pricing to embed in web sites.   

any more coming up?

http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/events/128976332/ (http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/events/128976332/)

I'll have to try to make it to the next one.

I joined, hope to attend the next one

We are having a Meetup every Tuesday at Central Market (for now;  Looking for a better venue;  might end up on campus).

Going to have a Weekend Meetup the 3rd Saturday of each month.  The first is this coming Saturday.

More Information here:  http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/events/133602192/ (http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/events/133602192/)