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I'll be in Paris with my family next month, and would like to arrange a meeting or two with other bitcoin-people.  Who is in/near Paris, and what would be a good time/place to meet?

PS: sorry for not writing in French, it has been a very LONG time since high-school French class...

I live in Paris and I'd be pleased to meet you, Gavin.  Anyone else ?

I guess we could meet in a café, restaurant or something.

I might show up as well, if you don't mind somebody trying to convince you that inflatacoin is what we need :-)

Oh this could be fun.

I can show up too

I'd love to join as well.

For me, May 25th could work.

You're french, S3052 ?  I had no clue.

No, je suis Allemand, et j'habite a Geneve.

... thats about how great my french is... so I switch to English now..

I would drive the 500 km to Paris if it works out.

I will totally show up

As I was thinking about a place where to do this, I thought a symbolic place for finance would be nice.

So, what about having lunch at "la Défense"?

It's quite a nice place with lots of cafés and restaurants, and it's also a large pedestrian place so after lunch we can spend some time there and talk about the project if we want.


Any other idea?

they got that fruit restaurant au "quatres temps" but hell it's disgusting xD

Edit: Bummer, I can't be in Paris that week. Maybe next time?  :'(

Quartier de la bourse ?

Ouais on peut y faire un tour histoire de faire une photo de groupe en face du palais Brognard.  Mais c'est pas idéal pour discuter, même si il y a aussi pas mal de cafés dans ce coin.

Ok, just to name a few:

Montmartre, les Halles, le marais. None of these are finances related, but they're nice places to hang. Also Montgallet to go check on some video cards while we talk =P

I know this is not exactly a business meeting, but I'm not sure I want to be some kind of a touristic guide either :)

Anyway I really think "la Défense" would be a nice place.

I'm fine with any place really. Let's discuss content a little. Do you intent to match the meeting with a f2f Bitcoin trade meeting?

I'm up for coming too; and maybe hitch a ride with S3052 if possible ;)

Edit: The train service is pretty good as well if not on strike;

I would like to come.

Guys, if we are very numerous it will be hard to find a table in a restaurant.  I can book one but in that case please confirm that you can be in Paris "la Défense" at lunch time on may, the 25th.

But in worst case scenario, we'll always be able to find some room in a café.  So I guess it's fine.

I also got convinced that the train is probably best. Lets plan for that..
Lets see if we can brand out train compartment with BITCOIn :-)

lol

I was googling bitcoin as I do every day and I saw that someone twitted Max Keiser about bitcoin.   We all know Max and Stacy Herbert have been "bitcoin friendly" for some time now.

Maybe we could invite one of them to join us for this lunch?  Who knows, they might accept...


I don't have any twitter account, but if you do, feel free to give them a link to this thread.



PS.  Max Keiser lives and works in Paris (well, as far as I know...)

consider it done via twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/BitcoinAnalyst (http://twitter.com/#!/BitcoinAnalyst)

I confirm to be there on May 25 in the morning around 10:30 AM and need to leave by train around 5:30 PM again. Let me know if this can work for you.
In case not, I need to think about planning to stay overnight somehow.

Barring any unforseen consequences, i'll be there on the 25th too

Wednesday the 25th of May is not going to work out for me.
I will just have time on the weekend before.

Gavin, I will be traveling to Paris to meet there and my current dates are May 24-27th.  Can you please reconfirm that May 25th is the agreed date. Cheers.

Café des Phares
7, Place de la Bastille 75004, Paris
Metro Bastille

Café Le Bastille
8, Place de la Bastille 75012, Paris
Metro Bastille

These two cafés share not only the prominent location of the Place de la Bastille and all the historical reverence attached to this Parisian cornerstone site, they were also linked to a sort of renaissance movement in Paris cafes known as the Philocafés. These are spots where people would meet as a club, and whose purpose was to philosophize, almost in ways reminiscent of the art and intellectual movement of the early 20th Century. If not in actual potency, they definitely hit a chord with nostalgia. The two bustling cafés have seen it all and probably roll right along with an amused grin.

http://www.myparistrips.com/pariscafes.html

lol

Should I create a poll or something?
 ;D

Did gavin confirm the date ?

I'm fine with anything as long as the date is confirmed so I can take a day off work and the place has beer and space enough for all of us :D

Agree with daveout.

I also need to know in the next 2-3 days to plan properly.

I will be there at lunchtime on the 25th

grondilu, "la Défense" on May 25th lunch sounds great....please post here when you have final cafe address since i won't have anyone's mobile number. cheers,

From what I see here we won't be too numerous so it will be easy to find a table pretty much anywhere.

I'll PM my mobile number to everyone one day before so it will be easier to meet.

Wednesday May 25'th bitcoin lunch in la Défense is on my calendar.

For those who don't know, you can get to la Défense whether via subway line 1 or RER line 1, but I very much advise not to use RER.   Use subway as it is faster, less crowdy and terminus is at la Défense, so you can't get it wrong.

I took my day off for the 25th for a trip to Paris for lunch  ;D

me too ;-)

Me too....looking forward to it.

Guys, I suck at organizing this kind of things, but I'm pretty sure it will not be difficult to find a nice place even if we don't book a table.  I used to work at La Defense and we often had lunch at various places without booking.  So unless an other french guy wants to book something, there won't be any specific preparations.  It should be fine, really (and possibly more fun, too).

However, considering the fact that we don't know each other (only Gavin's face is known, and no, I won't post a photo of my ugly face on this forum :) ), I will PM my phone number to whoever on this thread wants it.  I'll also see if I can make a photo of the meeting point and post it on this thread.  Once we are gathered, we will search for a café/restaurant/whatever.

I hope it sounds good to you.

Underneath the arch?

I was rather thinking about the red sculpture, as the arch is a bit too a big place for a meeting point.  But I guess it will be much easier to spot on for people who don't know the place well.

So the arch it will be.

We could meet at the elevator underneath the arch, narrows it down.

+1, it's easliy spotted, going up to the arch elevator is far from most metro exits

Then what about the metro exit itself. I presume most of us will use it to go there anyways.

There are several metro exits.

I agree with the arch being quite far away (not even mentionning the stairs).

The red sculpture is a good meeting point.   Plus, there are several benches nearby, as we'll certainly have to wait for some people.


As far as time is concerned, I suggest half past noon.

The sculpture it is then.

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The red spider:

http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/large/10eb2589-279e-4b48-b83a-aaa080dfd3d3.jpg

Good, that looks like it will be easy to find.

I can meet you in Paris this week end only: 21-22 may 2011.
just send me a message to grab a drink somewhere.

Dude, no offense but you have 4 posts here.

Your vessel will probably look somehow similar

Hi,
Can everybody come to this meet up?
I work in Paris, in La Defense so it would regret missing this chance to meet some other bitcoiners. I didn't know there were so many in Paris.
I'm not so active on the forum but am still a huge bitcoin supporter.

BTW, Galvin, are you going to the eG8?

Moi j'y vais, j'ai posé ma journée :D

lol

I considered jetting over there and jetting back in time for my Bitcoin talk in Zurich at 7pm. But knowing me it just sounds like such a recipe for disaster. :D

Have fun! Hopefully there will be a next time some day.  :)

I'm looking forward to meeting everybody-- I be at the big red spider thing at 12:30.

I've got a temporary mobile phone, number is: 06 19887172

Wonderful, I'll be there at 12 probably, I'll wait smoking cigarettes and being an annoying french person

Hi guys, it was a nice to meet all of you.
I'm sorry I missed the coffee but I really had to go to work.

thumbnail:
http://s0.barwen.ch/~grondilu/bitcoin-paris-la-defense.jpg

the four photos in full format:

http://s0.barwen.ch/~grondilu/20110525_001.jpg
http://s0.barwen.ch/~grondilu/20110525_002.jpg
http://s0.barwen.ch/~grondilu/20110525_003.jpg
http://s0.barwen.ch/~grondilu/20110525_004.jpg

I think you stretched it as far as you could :)

It was really awesome meeting all of you guys, I had a great time !

yay! thanks a lot!

Thanks grondilu for the pics. Good times at La Défense....enjoyed meeting the Paris contingency.

You're welcome.


How comes you haven't told us about your invitation by Max Keiser?

Anyway, you've done a brilliant job answering Max's questions.  Congratulations. 

Definitely one of the best video about bitcoin.

For those who don't know what I am talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GiQEECNcZM