Some interesting monthly in-the-flesh meetups of global geek communities happening in Raleigh, NC:

  • Slashdot
    slashdot.meetup.com
    4th Thursday of every month, go to the site to vote on where. I know this one really happens because Zac is the host, wahoo!

  • 2600 magazine meetup in Raleigh, at the Crabtree Valley Mall food court in front of the McDonald’s. All meetings take place on the first Friday of the month. 5pm ~ 8pm. I don’t know if anyone shows up for this, but if nothing else you can get some fries.
  • I have been following Freenet development for years now, and it is still very much a work-in-progress.

    I decided to give the latest Windows snapshot of Freenet 0.5rc1, “the first ‘stable’ release in far too long”, a ride around the block.

    Well, it takes about one NY minute to realize that the main problem with USING Freenet is actually FINDING STUFF on Freenet. I will need to set up an index of my local node some time, with the perl script from here (and here’s a sample of what it can do), if I get inspired, and can get my head fully behind the concept that (“censorship is evil” && “copyright is bad” && etc. etc.).