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| /r/paris meetup |
This Saturday was the 3rd Annual Global reddit Meetup Day and by our non-scientific estimates, there were over 350 different meetups in 70 countries, with approximately 10,000 attendants, which is roughly double last year's turnout.
To commemorate the glorious day, redditors made special outfits, nail polish art, cocktails, Piñatas, tacos, desserts, cocktails, Jenga towers, portraits, aluminium castings, various snoo art, and yes, even
fire tornados.
Check out all the amazing
pics,
videos, and
DailyDot's coverage. Big shout out to our "horrible" friends at Cards Against Humanity for sending out cards to a lot of the meetups. Big thanks to everyone at /r/SanFrancisco, /r/Chicago, /r/NYC, /r/Houston, /r/LosAngeles, /r/LondonSocialClub, /r/LasVegas, /r/Portland, and /r/Alaska for showing us admins a good time.
We must note however, that we were concerned by the number of horsehead masks. Seriously, you all are going to open a damn vortex if you aren't careful.
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| /r/halifax meetup |
If you missed out on the fun or want to start planning for next year,
Global reddit Meetup Day IV will take place on Saturday June 15th, 2013. Hopefully this date will work better for the redditors celebrating midsummer. We are a
lready looking forward to next year!
We also want to announce a new global meetup event —
reddit Dedicated Day of Service (rDDoS), which will be held on September 21, 2012 September 22, 2012. It'll be just like GrMD except replace the drinking with cleaning up local rivers,
blood drives, fixing up computers at local schools, or whatever else makes sense in your community. We'll have some various fun contests and things to encourage participation, but we'll leave it up to local communities and the mods of the realms to figure out what a "dedicated day of service" means in your area.
Find your local subreddit HERE and discuss.
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| /r/singapore |
We are all inspired by the wide variety of altruistic projects and events on reddit. The altruistic fundraising events tend to get the most press attention, but
/r/assistance, /
r/random_acts_of_pizza,
/r/RandomActsofPetFood,
/r/RandomKindness,
/r/MeetAndEat,
/r/Favors,
/r/mmfb,
/r/mentors,
/r/techsupport,
/r/Proofreading,
/r/PlayItForward,
/r/stopsmoking and many others have built vibrant communities around helping each other in big and small ways every day. We hope rDDoS will help spark similar offline awesomeness and some new friends.
See you September 22nd, 2012 for rDDoS and June 15th, 2013 for GrMD!
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| /r/washingtondc meetup |
