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Finnish Apolytoner summit 2003
Right, yesterday I talked to Kassi and Patriq on IRC about the idea that we would finally get arranged that first Finnish Apolytoner summit. The idea was discussed for the first time in late July last year, but as it was so late, the summit never took off and the idea was left untouched. As spring is approaching and the idea came up again, I decided to bring it up again so that we could finally get something agreed and have that real world meeting. So why do I bring the issue up now, despite there hasn't yet been any talk about the subject in the Suomithreadi? Well, people are soon deciding about what they do during the summer months and in general it seems to be good to agree in advance as we live quite split around the country, so organising a meeting isn't as easy as for Brits or Yanks who can easily gather numerous Apolytoners (no, I'm not jealous about it or neither do I want to offend you) from a smaller distance or just generally more easily.
I think there's several good proposals in the old thread ("Finnish Apolytoner meeting - official thread"), but to refresh the issue, the questions seem to be where and when.
When?
Well, apparently the summer months would be good as the majority of us are somekind of students, so that's when we have our holidays. However I do understand that we can't settle any dates and times yet, but at least somekind of a general outlook would be good.
Where?
This seemed to be the problem last year. Places have been proposed and seem to be possible are Helsinki, Turku, Tampere and suprise, suprise... Mänttä.
Last year Helsinki seemed to be more popular option, but I do agree that some other location could be as good too. Mänttä is included as Kassi claimed he's too lazy to leave his basement, so we need to concider that too. 
Tampere is on the menu as Ignorance and I live here. I can't promise any services, but at least there's plenty of good places around here. What about Turku? I assume no one wants to have the summit there, so I skip it. 
Suggestions about the place, schedule or the program?
At least we need to notice that we have quite a few minors among us, so we have to exclude the alternative of going to a bar/pub or a terrace, unless Aaglo claims that Kassi and the other minors are his foster children, we have a "mehukekkerit" party or have one of those McDonald's parties for kids. So a traditional picnic where everyone has their own food and drinks seems to be a quite good choice. Also one good idea would be that we could continue the meeting indoors or if the weather is bad (or we're just so lazy), we could stay indoors during the summit. Watching an episode of NGE wouldn't be a bad idea. If we have the meeting here in Tampere, I could most likely offer a place for indoor refuge, but I'm not sure about it and especially not for Helsinki and the other places. One abit crazy idea would be to have a dinner at Hotel Kämp. 
I think there's several good proposals in the old thread ("Finnish Apolytoner meeting - official thread"), but to refresh the issue, the questions seem to be where and when.
When?
Well, apparently the summer months would be good as the majority of us are somekind of students, so that's when we have our holidays. However I do understand that we can't settle any dates and times yet, but at least somekind of a general outlook would be good.
Where?
This seemed to be the problem last year. Places have been proposed and seem to be possible are Helsinki, Turku, Tampere and suprise, suprise... Mänttä.
Last year Helsinki seemed to be more popular option, but I do agree that some other location could be as good too. Mänttä is included as Kassi claimed he's too lazy to leave his basement, so we need to concider that too. Tampere is on the menu as Ignorance and I live here. I can't promise any services, but at least there's plenty of good places around here. What about Turku? I assume no one wants to have the summit there, so I skip it. Suggestions about the place, schedule or the program?
At least we need to notice that we have quite a few minors among us, so we have to exclude the alternative of going to a bar/pub or a terrace, unless Aaglo claims that Kassi and the other minors are his foster children, we have a "mehukekkerit" party or have one of those McDonald's parties for kids.
So a traditional picnic where everyone has their own food and drinks seems to be a quite good choice. Also one good idea would be that we could continue the meeting indoors or if the weather is bad (or we're just so lazy), we could stay indoors during the summit. Watching an episode of NGE wouldn't be a bad idea. If we have the meeting here in Tampere, I could most likely offer a place for indoor refuge, but I'm not sure about it and especially not for Helsinki and the other places. One abit crazy idea would be to have a dinner at Hotel Kämp.
Well, we'd better come there then. 
We might get even Kassi here as he can't get too stressed by that bus trip from Mänttä. Or could he...? 
This is just a suggestion, have a good time...
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