{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Purple Tinker (purpletinker)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Aug-11 04:40:19 UTC","author_name":"Purple Tinker (purpletinker)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/purpletinker","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/428258","html":"@starshine<\/span><\/a><\/span> It's more than a meetup. It's a convention. We have an actual venue, with 7000 square feet of space just for us. We have guests Jayson Thiessen and Sethisto. We have almost 100 RSVPs already. This isn't just "a meetup". It's THE meetup. Ask anypony who was at BroNYCon June. And this is going to be a good deal bigger and a LOT more awesome. I do plenty to promote other meetups. I maintain www.bronies.com<\/a>, I encourage the formation of other meetup groups, I routinely pimp the new meetup groups on EquestriaDaily, and occasionally I even sponsor out-of-town groups monetarily. Without me, there would be three organised meetup groups (NYC, Portland and Seattle\/Tacoma)."}