Wednesday, December 26th, I'm putting out a call for our 2nd annual post holiday geek Laager. Meet at The Independent in downtown St. Petersburg, FL, at 700p. Bring conversation and geek camradery.

Location:
The Independent
29 Third Street North
St. Petersburg, Florida, 33701
Find directions via Virtual Earth aka local.live.com aka maps.live.com here

A laager basically means a circle of wagons pulled together for defensive reasons. The phrase originated in high german, and is now obsolete Afrikaans. Dictionary.com has a great definition also.

A geek laager is a circling up of developers (aka geeks) for a short period of time. When I'm in a town for a user group or developer meeting, I try and have informat chats, or laagers, with anyone who wants to drop by. Conversations topics can be varied, as well as the meeting places.

This is a non-structured open discussion with no specific topic or speaker, but is simply a round-table discussion group. The idea is for each person to bring a topic. We'll have a hat (or something) we'll pass around. The group will offer up opinions on the topics for up to 5 minutes per person. Then we'll pass the hat. After that open discussion ensues. After all topics are exhausted we will be too. Discussion items can include .NET, the local developer community, systems lifecycle developer, latest toys like a zune or robot, xbox games, et cetera. Bring your laptop if you want to show some code but don't get a soda spilled on it.

This is a buy your own food, buy your own drinks type event. Microsoft won't be picking up the tab for anything. Sorry.