One of the big themes here at Bug Labs is inclusion. 
With get-togethers, this can be a bit of a tricky thing to do, since it’s not
really practical to have a hundred people at a dinner discussion, and we’d have
a tough time convincing the landlords to install all-plexiglass walls in the
building.  But, we DO want to get out and in front of everyone/anyone interested
in chatting.  So we’ll be setting up events around the country that we’re
calling "Bug + (BLANK)".  Each one is a public, everyone’s-invited activity of some sort.

BLANK will include words like “campus” – when we show up at a school and meet
with students and teachers who are interested in learning more.  BLANK
could be “Austin” – for finding an interesting venue in that fine town to have
hands-on demonstrations and coding workshops with the Bug platform.  BLANK
could even be “the mall”, but we’re having a tough time seeing how that would
fit.

BLANK right now is going to be “bar+NYC” (I almost said "booze" – which I’ve always found an
attention-grabbing word), and by that it means we are going to have a night at
a bar in New York City, where a few people from the company will be on hand to chat
about whatever topics come up, whether related to Bug, open source hardware, cool gadgets, or Call of Duty 2 strategies.  In fact, I’m of the opinion
that all of those topics will come up and might even make a small bet on it.

So please join us on August 14th at Punch Restaurant (upstairs) in Manhattan for an open bar from 6-8pm.  As soon as we can logistically set up more BLANKs, you’ll hear
about them here.  Got a BLANKing good suggestion?  Comment on the
blog or shoot me an email, we’d be happy to BLANK with you anytime!