Anyone up for the Phoenix area? I’m thinking either Tempe, or up near Desert Ridge (good bars, easy highway access).

If so, respond here and we can start organizing…

I demand you call it HotSec!

Only if you want to overload the name: http://www.usenix.org/events/hotsec07/

Ok. Atlanta is a better HotSec anyways. Phoenix should be DrySec. Matt, are you in Phoenix?

LA, actually. I suggested Westwood Brewing in the LASec thread because it’s walking distance to my apartment :)

We could go with SunSec, but at this point I’d settle for someone else saying they’ll show up.

I mean we all know I can amuse myself, but doing it alone in public is fairly pathetic.

How about SecaSec (seca being Spanish for ‘dry’).

I’d be up for anywhere, but would prefer Tempe. I know about 4+ other people who would be interested in attending as well.

Id be interested in a Tempe meeting, its relatively central, and most importantly only a few miles away from me :) Anyone got a date suggestion? Next Tuesday (22nd) or Thursday (24th) perhaps?

Yeah, we’re local to Tempe (East Valley) as well. Won’t be back in town until the 24th, so something around 7 to 8 pm would work. Some places that would work are a coffee shop, e.g. Starbucks or a restaurant with a nice patio, e.g. Tilted Kilt (except they have crappy food).

I was thinking that DosGringos, or Four Peaks are also good choices. Maybe someone else will speak up with a better solution.

Ill throw Buffalo Wild Wings at Alma School and the 60 into the hat aswell

I’ll second the nomination for Four Peaks; definitely needs to be someplace with beer. Time for a headcount? Go reply if you’re in, and we can start working out a date/time.

I’m in along with 3 others if we can do Four Peaks @ 7:00 PM on Thursday, May 24th (I’ll try to get them to sign up and respond to this forum too).

Thursday at 7 works for me! Ill see if I can drag some of my staff with me. max 2 or 3 more id guess.

should we push it to next week to give us time to promote it better?

Both work for me, this thursday and next, but if were going to push it , we should probably go ahead and do it now….vliu? how does this impact you and yours.

I say we push it and I’ll ask Tom to promote on the blog. Okay with everyone?

Confirm that it’s next Thursday, May 31? Happy to yell on the blog about it.

I’m in for next Thursday May 31…im sure most of my team will make it, so there will be atleast 5 or 6 of us. Thanks for the promote Tom!

31 it is! Run it please :)

Turns out I’ll be a little late, but I’ll still be there. Let’s all wear something with a geek/vendor logo on it since we don’t know each other yet. I should be there no later than 8.

Im pretty sure that my team is going to head over after work, and I got the message a little late to logo coordinate the troops…but we’ll be in the back near the kegs, I think that is the optimal spot for conversation. Ill be wearing a blue polo with white stripes. Ill keep an eye out for geekwear! See ya there Rich.

SunSec 1 was a great start! We had a headcount of 7 and a lot of good conversation. A few of us have decided that we are going to make it a recurring last Thursday of the month event. The next location is up in the air. I hope to work with Rich and Adam to choose a quieter venue for the next event. I hope to see more valley residents at the next gathering!

I suggest Furio in Old Town Scottsdale. It’s kind of funky, good happy hour food, and still a central location.