A few of us are having a tweetup for the Huntsville Apple Store opening at Bridgestreet. The new store opens on Saturday May 31st, 2008 at 10:00 am. The first 1000 people who come through the door will get Apple t-shirts. We plan on getting there early and waiting in line at 9:30 am. Come out and join us!

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When: Friday, May 2 at noon
Where: Panera Bread at Airport Rd. and Whitesburg Dr. (map) If you can’t be there in body, we might attempt a Ustream from my MacBook. If the weather’s good, we’ll be on the patio (if you get there first, grab the tables!) If not, look for the folks in the picture from the first Tweetup. My red hair’s not hard to find.
On the agenda: Trying to figure out where to go with this-here site (wiki?) and attempting to set a date for a Lynchburg meetup. Oh, and the usual Twitter gossip.

Speaking of which — last weekend we came up with the idea for our first multi-city meetup at Miss Mary Bobo’s in Lynchburg, TN, which is somewhat halfway between Huntsville, Nashville and Chattanooga.

We have to make reservations well in advance for this place (which has the best country food EVER) so if you’re interested, please comment or contact me (@ariedana) or @aubiematt and let us know if there’s a weekend in late May or in June that you absolutely couldn’t do it.

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In March of 2008, Ariel and David Safdie won a permit to place a statue of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the lawn of the Cumberland County Courthouse. Now, a motion by the county government has been placed to remove the statue by May 1st, 2008. Not to let this moment pass us by, we are planning a trip to the court house to see this landmark that has won the hearts of many on the internet. Join us at the Flying Spaghetti Monster statue on April 26th, 2008 at 1:00pm for a Tweetup at the Cumberland County Courthouse. We actually have no idea what is actually in Crossville, TN, but we think it’s going to be a great trip nonetheless!

You can find more information about the Flying Spaghetti Monster statue and how it was made on Ariel’s blog.

The Spaghetti Monster can be found here:
2 N Main St.
Crossville, TN

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Project Intentions:

• Not for profit
• Keep as collaborative as possible
• Involve as many people as possible
• Creative Commons
• Open Source

Accomplish the following goals:

• Not Limited to Huntsville
• Allow Any Organization to Call A Tweetup
• Promote Mobile Collaboration
• Simple, Easy to use interface
• Allow the spontaneous to happen

We are looking for:

• Coders
• Designers
• Thought-Leaders
• Promotters
• Mascotts!

I would love to hear from anyone who wants to be involved in this project and any ideas you may have. Also feel free to comment below to share any ideas you may have.

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The first Huntsville Tweetup has come and gone. All in all, we had a great time! There were new people to meet and a lot of fun discussion to go with it. We even signed-up a few new people to twitter!

Anyone else who has any photos, please upload them to Flickr and tag them with ‘huntsvilletweetup’ to share with everyone.

If you missed out on the first Huntsville Tweetup, don’t worry. We are planning to have another one very soon! We will keep you posted!

Flickr Tags: huntsvilletweetup

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We also have some suggested topics to talk about:

• Twitter Tips and Tricks
• Twhirl, Twitteriffic, and other twitter applications
• Should twitter etiquette exist?

If you would like to suggest anything else to talk about, please send me an email and I will post it on here.

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Map to the event:

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