Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Party Grand Prize Winner

From Brisbane to Beunos Aires... From the UK to France to Romania... from New York to San Francisco and everywhere in between, we had well over 100s of parties and over 2,300 registered attendees scattered around the world. Many of them got boxes of t-shirts and ThinkGeek gift certificates (and some of them even got them on time). We've seen cakes with legos and logos, we seen nerf gun fights, and even a lawn sporking. I've put a tiny sampling of my favorite pictures online. The grand prize winner is of the $1k store credit at ThinkGeek is Lindsi from Minneapolis. Their party featured a lolcats cake, a taco bar and a dude in a helmet smashing computers with a sledge hammer in a raining parking lot. They earned it. We had a great time in both Palo Alto and Ann Arbor- I hope you guys had fun wherever you gathered. See you again in 2017!

Re:This God It's Over

[AmaDaden]

If you hate hearing about /. so much goto http://meta.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome [slashdot.org] and set it so you don't have to see those articles. Trolling about how this is a "circle-jerk" is not a solution.

Beunos Aires?

[powermacx]

Should be Buenos Aires.

Re:Yee Ha!

[DecepticonEazyE]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA That rocks!!!!! Check out our details. http://www.vibrant.com/blog/slashdot-anniversary-party-recap/ [vibrant.com] We had so much fun!!!

Re:Congratulations Lindsi!

[lindsi]

Thanks! We all had a blast at this party. I have to say the prize money will be split up amongst the other brains of the operation - I have to give credit where credit is due, to Corey (vibrant_com), Kris (kblommel) and Hudson (decepticoneazye) for their efforts. Maybe we can put it towards something everyone can enjoy at the next geeky-get together. (I heard /. has birthdays every year...! Ha.)

Thanks & that barmaid with the slash book

[Lord Satri]

Thanks first for the opportunity. Montréal's Slash party was nice. Maybe we were about 25 slash enthusiasts at the climax. Here's my summary right after the party [slashdot.org] (with alcohol still running in my veins): "Interesting to see a sample of Slashdot readers. Most were very friendly, some were rather shy (as we expect nerds to be?), some were "older" but some were also very young! And the discussions about 1.5D, 2.5D, 3.5D, surfing in Hawifi, this North Korean drum-driven CD and three-way code merge were definitely worthy of a Slash-like party, and that barmaid reading the Slash book. Yeah. We should have more of this. Life still has surprises. Thanks."

One of the pictures on Picasa web album is a barmaid which accepted to play our game and be photographed while faking reading the cryptic "Running web logs with Slash" book (I happen to run a small slash-based website, that's why a bought a copy of the book). As good slash users, pictures were copied on the web even as the event occurred by people at the party :-)

Video, for whoever's interested!

[lindsi]

Highlight reel here [youtube.com] and full-length here [youtube.com]. (Oh, and being a female, I can vouch for not only our existence, but our presence at the party!! :-D)