Group Picture

Andrew Spyker took the picture (so not in the picture).  Wayne Sutton left early (so not in the picture).

Trying to name people,

Left side front to back - Keefe Hayes, Ryan Boyles, Jonathan Robie (hidden), ?

Right wide front to back - Mitch Amiano, Paul Kiel, Dan Zhong (hidden), Masami Tanaka, Lorraine Mantovani

Idea

• Meet and greet RTP area techies and WWW2010 attendees that are interested in XML based technologies, solutions and trends.
• Some topics of discussion might be XML, XQuery, XSLT, XPath, Dynamic Document Publishing, Use of XML in the industry, emerging technology, etc. 
• Discuss your work and thoughts with like minded individuals in an informal setting over dinner and cocktails.
• Andrew Spyker (email address listed below) is organizing event - please email him for more info
• Note that while Andrew works for IBM, IBM is in no way sponsoring this event 
•   <-- Find me at the Hive, I look like this. Hope to see you there.
• The FLOWR Foundation has graciously offered to fund part of the meetup (likely drinks after dinner) 

Date / Time

• Tuesday 4/27 - 7:00 - 12:00
• Dinner starting at 7:00, Ending around 9:00
• Good time for informal introductions, get to know the group 
• Drinks from 9:00 until close (12:00) 
• Good time for more targeted discussions 
• Align with WWW2010 Raleigh - http://www2010.org/www/
• Note that this isn't officially associated with the WWW2010 conference.  Therefore, you can attend  without being registered for the conference.

Cost ($$)

• You will be expected to pay your own bill for dinner.
• The FLOWR Foundation has graciously offered to fund part of the meetup (likely drinks after dinner)

Location

• Busy Bee Raleigh - http://www.busybeeraleigh.com/

• Table reserved for The Hive (but will be moved to the outside deck weather permitting)
• Menu - Tasty Food and large Draught Beer selection.
• Directions - Google Maps is the best. Double true!
• Walking or Parking - Map that shows conference walking path to Busy Bee and parking. Click on map to enlarge.
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RSVP

Please post your contact info here (preferable twitter or linkedin) if you are interested and note if you will be attending.

Attending

• Andrew Spyker - will be in attendance
• http://twitter.com/aspyker, http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspyker
• email:  a w spyker at gmail dot com 
• Ryan Boyles - attending!
• @theRab, LinkedIn, cases ipad 2
• email:  not shared on this site, but on private emails to group 
• Dan Zhong - will be there at entry doors
• email:  not shared on this site, but on private emails to group 
• Masami Tanaka - will be in attendance
• email:  masamitanaka2 at gmail dot com
• Jonathan Robie - will be attending
• email:  jonathan dot robie at Farewell speech redhat.com
• Wayne Sutton - attending
• @WayneSutton 
• email: waynesutton at gmail dot com  
• Mitch Amiano - will attend
• http://www.twitter.com/mcamiano, http://www.linkedin.com/in/amiano 
• email:  Mitch dot Amiano at AgileMarkup dot com
• Paul Kiel - likely attending (checking now)
• http://www.twitter.com/paulxml, http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulkiel
• email:  paul at xmlhelpline dot com
• Mike Iantosca
• email:  not shared on this site, but on private emails to group
• James Chamberlain - will attend
• worked with DB2 V9.7 pureXML/XQuery/XPath/FLOWR
• email: not shared, but on private group emails 
• At least 2 people from the WebSphere User's Group said they will join us for drinks after the WUG meeting (same night) 

Not Attending 

• Julio Vazquez - will not be able to attend.
• http://www.twitter.com/juliov27612, http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliovazquez
• email:  not shared on this site, but on private emails to group 
• Michiaki Tatsubori - cannot attend on the day  ;-<
• http://twitter.com/tatsubori, http://www.linkedin.com/in/tatsubori
• email:  not shared on this site, but on private emails Send Money to group
• Daniela Florescu - will not be attending
• email:  not shared on this site, but on private Boxing Gloves emails to group
• Kristen James Eberlein - unable to attend  skin whitening products
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/kristeneberlein
• email:  kris at eberleinconsulting dot com
• Kevin Clarke  :-(
• http://twitter.com/ksclarke, http://www.linkedin.com/in/ksclarke
• email:  ksclarke at gmail 
• candy gift baskets