I know that/. has been sold to Dice, but isn't the HQ still in Virginia? And Yet the only party in VA is in the middle of nowhere and nobody's going. What gives? I'm going to have to go to DC... bleh.
Heh, the various layers of company attachments / name changes / etc. have made for some confusion over the years, incl. often for employees. The "main office" for Slashdot, though, is still in Dexter, MI (near Ann Arbor), as it has been for something like a decade. (I forget which year it moved there, exactly.) I've visited there 2 or 3 or maybe 4 times over the years. SourceForge / Geeknet proper has some people in San Francisco and NYC as well as VA; ThinkGeek's offices have been in VA the whole time it's been associated w/ Slashdot (and as far as I know it was was also founded there... have no reason to think otherwise, and lots of reason to think so), and Yes, a lot of parent company backend stuff has been out of that office. But (sorry, pedantry) I don't think one could ever make the case that *Slashdot's* HQ has been in VA -- but it's nice to have the organization of a company with things like billing / payroll / businessy stuff in general, which lets Slashdot concentrate on stories and discussions about glowing animals, software licensing, model rockets, etc. OTOH, the ThinkGeek folks (being very gracious and fun to hang out with) have let me work from there on several occasions when I was on the east coast and within driving range of their place. Their kitchen always has cool stuff in it, like a giant Death Star cookie jar.
Dice is in Iowa... and although I've been briefly in Iowa while on road trips a few years back, that's about it. Pretty place, IMO, at least during the times I was there.
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Heh, the various layers of company attachments / name changes / etc. have made for some confusion over the years, incl. often for employees. The "main office" for Slashdot, though, is still in Dexter, MI (near Ann Arbor), as it has been for something like a decade. (I forget which year it moved there, exactly.) I've visited there 2 or 3 or maybe 4 times over the years. SourceForge / Geeknet proper has some people in San Francisco and NYC as well as VA; ThinkGeek's offices have been in VA the whole time it's been associated w/ Slashdot (and as far as I know it was was also founded there ... have no reason to think otherwise, and lots of reason to think so), and Yes, a lot of parent company backend stuff has been out of that office. But (sorry, pedantry) I don't think one could ever make the case that *Slashdot's* HQ has been in VA -- but it's nice to have the organization of a company with things like billing / payroll / businessy stuff in general, which lets Slashdot concentrate on stories and discussions about glowing animals, software licensing, model rockets, etc. OTOH, the ThinkGeek folks (being very gracious and fun to hang out with) have let me work from there on several occasions when I was on the east coast and within driving range of their place. Their kitchen always has cool stuff in it, like a giant Death Star cookie jar.
Dice is in Iowa ... and although I've been briefly in Iowa while on road trips a few years back, that's about it. Pretty place, IMO, at least during the times I was there.
The parties [suffer / benefit] from the uncertainties of crowd-sourcing; there's some Shaker-meeting uncertainty, but that also makes things interesting. We hope the ones that transpire turn out to be interesting and fun.